shivalik hills are situated in the himalaya mountain range of haryana.
shivalik hills are situated in the himalaya mountain range of haryana.
which mountain range of haryana is shivalik hills situated?
himalaya
the 1164 ce delhi-shivalik pillar inscription states that vigraharaja conquered the region between the himalayas and the vindhyas. the himalayas and the vindhyas form the traditional boundary of aryavarta (the land of ancient aryans), and vigraharaja claimed to have restored the rule of aryans in this land. while his claim of having conquered the entire land between these two mountains is an exaggeration, it is not completely baseless. his delhi-shivalik pillar inscription was found at topra village in haryana, near the shivalik hills. this indicates that vigraharaja captured territories to the north of delhi, up to the himalayan foothills. raviprabha's "dharmaghosha-suri-stuti" states that the ruler of malwa and arisiha (possibly arisimha of mewar) assisted him in hoisting a flag at the rajavihara jain temple in ajmer. the ruler of malwa here probably refers to a claimant to the paramara kingdom, which had been captured by the chaulukyas during this period. assuming that the claimant to the malwa throne had accepted vigraharaja's suzerainty, it appears that vigraharaja's influence extended up to the vindhyas, at least in name.
vigraharaja iv
a decade after the sukhna lake, conceptualised by le corbusier was built, it was detected that sedimentation through the kansal choe, a seasonal stream, was causing reduction in the depth and size of the lake. in order to find a solution to the problem, cswcrti deputed a team in 1975, with mishra as the project director to sukhomajri, an arid village at the foothills of shivalik hills, in panchkula district of the indian state of haryana. he worked for three years with the local villagers, educating them about the seriousness of the situation and urging them to abandon goat farming which was causing denuding of the forests and shift to cattle farming. he built two check dams across the seasonal stream for rain water harvesting, made water available to villagers for agriculture and was successful in implementing "social fencing programme", where the villagers erected fences protecting the forests from cattle grazing. with assistance from the forest department of haryana and the ford foundation, he is reported to have transformed the village into a prosperous one. it is reported that the bare slopes of shivalik hills were covered with vegetation, the milk production increased nine-fold, the rate of sedimentation was reduced to 1/15th of earlier levels, crop yield increased manifold, and a corpus fund was put in place, under the care of a society, for development activities in the village. a 1992 study by s. k. dhar, the then chief conservator of forests, confirmed that the tree density also increased from 13 per hectare to 1272 per hectare.
parasu ram mishra