karewa

English

Noun

karewa (plural karewas)

1. A type of elevated tableland or plateau-like terraces found primarily in the Kashmir Valley and Bhadarwah Valley in India.
   • 1872 December, “Notes on Kashmir”, in THE REV. JAMES SUMMERS, PROFESSOR OF THE CHINESE LANGUAGE IN KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON, editor, THE PHOENIX A MONTHLY MAGAZINE FOR INDIA, BURMA, SIAM, CHINA, JAPAN & EASTERN ASIA., volume III, number 30, page 82:

     It has been roughly calculated that the plains of Kashmir, including the Karewas, comprise an area of at least 650 square miles, while on the surrounding mountains there is another area of 150 of pasture land.

   • 1968, Calcutta Geographical Review, volumes 30-31, Geographical Society of India:

     These karewa beds are found in a ring along the outer periphery of the vale. They form flat-topped table lands, about one to two hundred meters high.

   • 2023, Kasinathan Muthukkumaran, R. Ayothiraman, Sreevalsa Kolathayar, Soil Dynamics, Earthquake and Computational Geotechnical Engineering: Proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2021 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering), volume 5, Springer, page 410:

     This cluster contains sites which lie on the exposed elevated areas os stiff Karewa soils in the northern part of Srinagar City known as Soura-Buchpora Karewa.