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‖ khadar India.|ˈkɑːdə(r)|
Also kadir, khádar, khaddar, khâder, khadir, and with capital K.
[Hindī.]
a. A flood-plain; land susceptible to flooding.
1832G. C. Mundy Pen & Pencil Sk. I. v. 269 The road continued partly along the khâder of the river. 1879Medlicott & Blanford Man. Geol. India I. xvii. 404 The alluvial plain itself..is composed of bhángar, or high land..and khádar, or low land, the low plain through which each river flows. 1882W. Theobald Mason's Burma I. 4 The delta..of the Ganges, the richest land of Lower Bengal, being composed of Khadir land. 1887J. M. Brown Shikar Sk. 247 Pig-sticking in the Kadir, or old bed of the Ganges. 1887Encycl. Brit. XXII. 98/2 Eastward of the khádar lies the sandy central tableland. 1904A. Knox Gloss. Geogr. & Topogr. Terms 193 Khadar (Hind.), low lands fit for rice-growing. 1929Blackw. Mag. Oct. 526/2 There is more game and greater variety of game in a kadir country than in any other kind. 1955Brown & Dey India's Mineral Wealth (ed. 3) xix. 691 In the Brahmaputra valley, and the whole of the Assam plain is one great khadar or strath.
b. Recently deposited alluvium.
1919D. N. Wadia Geol. India xxii. 251 The Khadar deposits are, as a rule, confined to the vicinity of the present channels. 1945H. L. Chhibber India I. xiv. 187 The Newer Alluvium is confined to the river channels and their flood plains and is locally termed as Khaddar. 1949M. S. Krishnan Geol. India & Burma xx. 519 The Newer Alluvium (called Khadar in the Punjab) is light coloured and poor in calcareous matter. |