Deccan Plateau

Deccan
Deccan Plateau, Deccan Peninsula
Deccan plateau (cyan) includes the Maharashtra plateau, Karnataka plateau and Telangana plateau.
Highest point
Elevation	600 m (2,000 ft)
Coordinates	15°N 77°E / 15°N 77°E / 15; 77
Naming
Native name	दख्खन/Dakhkhana (Marathi) దక్కన్/Dakkan (Telugu) دکن/Dakkan (Urdu) ದಖ್ಖನ್/Dakhkhan (Kannada)

The Deccan is a large plateau and region of India located between the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats, and is loosely defined as the peninsular region between these ranges that is south of the Narmada River. To the north, it is bounded by the Satpura and Vindhya Ranges. It covers the modern-day Indian States of Maharashtra, Telangana and Karnataka.

A rocky terrain marked by boulders, its elevation ranges between 100 and 1,000 metres (330 and 3,280 ft), with an average of about 600 metres (2,000 ft).^[1] It slopes generally eastward, and thus its principal rivers—the Godavari, Krishna, and Kaveri (Cauvery)—flow eastward from the Western Ghats to the Bay of Bengal. The plateau is drier than the coastal region of southern India and is arid in places.

The Deccan Plateau has produced some of the major dynasties in Indian history, including the Pallavas, Satavahana, Vakataka, Chalukya, and Rashtrakuta dynasties, also the Western Chalukya Empire, the Kadambas, the Yadava dynasty, the Kakatiya Empire, the Musunuri Nayakas regime, the Vijayanagara and the Maratha empires, as well as the Muslim Bahmani Sultanate, Deccan Sultanates, and the Nizam of Hyderabad.