1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
TISTA, a river of northern India, which rises on the edge of the Tibetan plateau, and flows through the mountain gorges of Sikkim and Darieeling, till it spills itself over the plain of Eastern Bengal. In the i8th century its course was due south to join the Ganges; but in 1787 great floods diverted the stream towards the south-east, and it now enters the Brahmaputra, the whole district of Rangpur being scored by various interlacing channels. Its total length in British territory is about i7om.
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