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TISTA

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1016 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TISTA , a See also:

river of See also:northern See also:India, which rises on the edge of the Tibetan See also:plateau, and flows through the See also:mountain See also:gorges of See also:Sikkim and See also:Darjeeling, till it spills itself over the See also:plain of Eastern See also:Bengal. In the 18th See also:century its course was due See also:south to join the See also:Ganges; but in 1787 See also:great floods diverted the stream towards the south-See also:east, and it now enters the See also:Brahmaputra, the whole See also:district of See also:Rangpur being scored by various interlacing channels. Its See also:total length in See also:British territory is about 170 T.

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