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3(c)
Give a geographical reason for each of the following:
The Ganga Plain gets the monsoon rain much later than the west coast of India.
Topic: Advance of the monsoon
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The south-west monsoon strikes the west coast first; it must then travel inland and up the plain, reaching the Ganga valley only weeks later.
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