CHAPTER XII

CLIMATE

THE laws which govern the Indian climate and the succession
 of its seasons are now fairly well ascertained. In
India and on the borders of India almost any extreme of

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zlimate that is known to the tropics or the temperate zone
nay be encountered, half of the continent lying actually
within the tropics. A line joining Dakka in Bengal to
Ahmedabad on the north of Gujrat is approximately the
ine which divides the two zones.
It is, however, remarkable that the greatest extremes
of heat are experienced within the northern zone, as well
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