what does it mean that Indian ocean touches Eastern coastlines of India explain
Answers
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering 70,560,000 km2 (27,240,000 sq mi) (19.8% of the water on the Earth's surface).[4] It is bounded by Asia on the north, on the west by Africa, on the east by Australia, and on the south by the Southern Ocean or, depending on definition, by Antarctica.[5]
Indian Ocean
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A composite satellite image centred on the Indian Ocean
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The ocean-floor of the Indian Ocean is divided by spreading ridges and crisscrossed by aseismic structures
Location
Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Western Asia, Northeast Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa and Australia
Coordinates
20°S 80°E
Type
Ocean
Max. length
9,600 km (6,000 mi) (Antarctica to Bay of Bengal)[1]
Max. width
7,600 km (4,700 mi) (Africa to Australia)[1]
Surface area
68,556,000 km2 (26,470,000 sq mi)
Average depth
3,741 m (12,274 ft)
Max. depth
7,258 m (23,812 ft)
Shore length1
66,526 km (41,337 mi)[2]
Settlements
Durban, Mumbai, Perth, Colombo, Padang, Maputo
References
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure.
Scientifically, the Indian Ocean remained poorly explored before the International Indian Ocean Expedition in the early 1960s. The Challenger expedition 1872–1876 only reported from south of the polar front. The Valdivia expedition 1898–1899 made deep samples in the Indian Ocean. In the 1930s, the John Murray Expedition mainly studied shallow-water habitats. The Swedish Deep Sea Expedition 1947–1948 also sampled the Indian Ocean on its global tour and the Danish Galathea sampled deep-water fauna from Sri Lanka to South Africa on its second expedition 1950–1952. The Soviet research vessel Vityaz also did research in the Indian Ocean.
Explanation:
In ancient India, coastal India spans from the south west Indian coastline along the Arabian sea from the coastline of the Gulf of Kutch in its westernmost corner and stretches across the Gulf of Khambhat, and through the Salsette Island of Mumbai along the Konkan and southwards across the Raigad region and through Kanara and further down through Mangalore and along the Malabar through Cape Comorin in the southernmost region of South India with coastline along the Indian Ocean and through the Coromandal Coast or Cholamandalam. The coastline on the South Eastern part of the Indian Subcontinent along the Bay of Bengal through the Utkala Kalinga region extends until the easternmost Corner of shoreline near the Sunderbans in Coastal East India. There are many beaches and springs here, as well as beautiful sea and oceans like the Arabian Sea.
People
The people along coastal India exhibit vast diversity along an underlying commonality as a result of its coastal topography and sea trade between west Asian Mediterranean traders along its west coastline. The region includes Gujaratis in the westernmost region, Kannadigas, Tuluvas, Goans and Maharashtrians along the Konkan coast or the western coastline, Malayalis in its southernmost region of South India, the Tamilians along southern Cholamandalam coast, the Telugus and Oriya people along the South eastern coast through Utkala Kalinga region along the Coromandal coast, and the Bengali people along the easternmost coastline along the Bay of Bengal.
Thriving Sea Trade and interminglingEdit
A thriving trade existed between the Mediterranean world and Coastal Indian regions [1][2][3][4] This led to significant intermingling between the people of Coastal India and the west asian world, particularly along the South West Indian Coastline along the Arabian Sea. Several west Asian communities have also settled and become part of the diversity of coastal south west India. These include the Parsis,[5] Bohras [6] and Baghdadi Jews [7] in the westernmost region, the Bene Israel along the South western region, the descendants of mediterranean traders along Coorg and Mangalore, the Jonakan Mappilas [8] along Malabar region, and the cochin jews [1][2][3][8][9][10][11] and Syriac Nasranis [1][2][3][8][9][10][11] along the southernmost region of South India. The Chola Empire established vast Tamil influence across South East Asian region [12][13][14] across Indonesia, Java, Bali and Sumatra. This brought South Indian Heritage to Cambodia, Indonesia and Bali where the Balinese Hindu traditions still thrives. This also lead to intermingling between coastal India and the south east Asia particularly in the South eastern Cholamandalam coastline along the Bay of Bengal.
HeritageEdit
The linguistic diversity of Coastal India includes languages of the Dravidian language family including Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Tulu and Kannada; languages belonging to the western zone of Indo Iranian language families including Gujarati, Marathi, Konkani, languages belonging to the central zone of the Indo-Iranian language families including Urdu and Persian and languages belonging to the eastern zone of Indo Iranian language family including Oriya and Bengali. The region also has speakers of Semitic languages like Arabic, Hebrew and Aramaic. The common elements of the people of coastal India includes cuisine that consists of agrarian and coastal products and clothing that involves long flowing drapes with bare midriff for both men and women suited for humid and warm climate.[15] Throughout coastal India women wear drapes called saree in various styles.[15] In the western corner of the region the drapes are called as Dhoti for men.[15] and Chaniya choli for women,[15] further southwards the drapes are called as lungi or mundu for men.[15] and veshti for women.[15] Women experience relatively more role in social system as compared to non coastal peninsular India and enjoy significantly more prominence in society than non coastal non peninsular India.[15][16][17][18] Towards the southernmost tip of coastal south western India the social system was considerably more matri-focal.[15][16][17][18][19] This is also manifested in feminine deity oriented festivals and rituals celebrating Shakti or feminine power [20] like Navratri festival among the Gujarati People, Thiruvathira festival among the Malayali people and the Durga Puja of the Bengali People.