- DOAB, THE
- a richly fertile, densely peopled territory in the Punjab, between the Jumna and Ganges, and extending 500 m. N., that is, as far as the Himalayas; it is the granary of Upper India.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
DOAB, THE
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