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UPPCS Indian Geography Gap Sheet: Waterfalls of India.
UPPCS has asked 19 of these. 14 have not been asked yet. Lock the first list, then read the second: it holds what UPPCS has not used yet.
First, the concept
A waterfall forms where a river drops over a hard rock edge, a fault, or the edge of a plateau.
Most big falls of India are on the edges of the Western Ghats, the Chotanagpur plateau and the Vindhyan scarps of Rewa and Mirzapur.
UPPCS asks a waterfall with its river or its state. The falls of Uttar Pradesh come in the UP special questions.
✅ Already asked (19)
Karnataka and Goa
- Jog (Gersoppa) · Sharavati river, Karnataka
- Shivanasamudra · Kaveri river, Karnataka; one of India's first hydro-power stations (1902)
- Kunchikal · Varahi river, Karnataka; often called India's highest
- Gokak · Ghataprabha river, Karnataka
- Dudhsagar · Mandovi river, Goa–Karnataka border
Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh
- Dhuandhar · Narmada river, Bhedaghat near Jabalpur
- Kapildhara · Narmada river, near its source at Amarkantak
- Chachai · Bihad (Beehar) river, Rewa
- Keoti · Rewa
- Chitrakote · Indravati river, Bastar; called the 'Niagara of India'
Jharkhand, Odisha and Bihar
- Hundru · Subarnarekha river, near Ranchi
- Lodh · Latehar; the highest waterfall of Jharkhand
- Barehipani · Similipal, Odisha
North and North-East
- Nohkalikai · Near Cherrapunji, Meghalaya; India's tallest plunge waterfall
Uttar Pradesh (UP special)
- Rajdari and Devdari · Chandraprabha Wildlife Sanctuary, Chandauli
- Lakhaniya Dari · Mirzapur
- Wyndham Fall · Mirzapur
- Tanda Fall · Mirzapur
- Mukha Fall · Sonbhadra
❌ Not asked yet (14)
Items marked 'asked in other exams' have come in UPSC or other state exams, not yet in UPPCS.
🔒 14 items not asked yet
Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh: 4 · Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh: 3 · Jharkhand, Odisha and Bihar: 3 · North and North-East: 4
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⚠️ Jog Falls is on the Sharavati, not the Kaveri. Shivanasamudra and Hogenakkal are the Kaveri falls. Chitrakote (Indravati) is in Chhattisgarh; do not mix it with Chitrakoot town in Uttar Pradesh.
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