VINDHYA RANGE
The Vindhya Range (also known as Vindhyachal) is a complex, discontinuous chain of mountain ridges, hill ranges, highlands and plateau escarpments in west-central India.· The Vindhya Mountain Range in central India is a very ancient mountain range. It is one of India's seven major sacred mountain ranges.
· These hills are less craggy and smaller in size than the others.
· Technically, the Vindhyas do not form a single mountain range in the geological sense.
· The exact extent of the Vindhyas is loosely defined, and historically, the term covered a number of distinct hill systems in central India, including the one that is now known as the Satpura Range.
· They really serve as a dividing line between the Indo-Gangetic plains and the Deccan area of India.
· Today, the term principally refers to the escarpment and its hilly extensions that runs north of and roughly parallel to the Narmada River in Madhya Pradesh.
· Depending on the definition, the range extends up to Gujarat in the west, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in the north, and Chhattisgarh in the east.
· These are non-tectonic mountains; they were formed not because of plate collision but because of the downward faulting of the Narmada Rift Valley (NRV) to their south.