Rivers Of India
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Author | : Sunil Vaidyanathan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages |
ISBN | : 9788189738884 |
A pictorial journey that delves into the symbiosis between India s major rivers and the people who live along them.
Author | : Sanjeev Sanyal |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2012-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 8184756712 |
DID THE GREAT FLOOD OF INDIAN LEGEND ACTUALLY HAPPEN? WHY DID THE BUDDHA WALK TO SARNATH TO GIVE HIS FIRST SERMON? HOW DID THE EUROPEANS MAP INDIA? The history of any country begins with its geography. With sparkling wit and intelligence, Sanjeev Sanyal sets off to explore India and look at how the country’s history was shaped by, among other things, its rivers, mountains and cities. Traversing remote mountain passes, visiting ancient archaeological sites, crossing rivers in shaky boats and immersing himself in old records and manuscripts, he considers questions about Indian history that we rarely ask: Why do Indians call their country Bharat? How did the British build the railways across the subcontinent? Why was the world’s highest mountain named after George Everest? Moving from the geological beginnings of the subcontinent to present-day Gurgaon, Land of the Seven Rivers is riveting, wry and full of surprises. It is the most entertaining history of India you will ever read.
Author | : Ted Lewin |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 1995-07-19 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547562748 |
All rivers in India are sacred, and the Ganges most of all. Every year, more than one million Hindu pilgrims journey to Benares to renew themselves in its waters. Caldecott Honor medalist Ted Lewin joined the pilgrims at the river's edge for an experience he describes as one of the most unforgettable of his life. His luminous watercolors and simple, evocative text brilliantly capture the traditions, beliefs, and colorful pageantry of the devout and their ancient city.
Author | : Raghubir Singh |
Publisher | : Hong Kong : Perennial Press |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Ganges River (India and Bangladesh) |
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Author | : Dhruv Sen Singh |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 2017-12-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9811029849 |
The book presents geomorphological studies of the major river basins – the Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra and their tributaries. Besides major basins, the book explores peninsular rivers and other rivers state-by-state. All types of rivers, i.e. snow-fed, rain-fed and groundwater-fed rivers are explained together in geological framework. Rivers are lifeline and understanding of the rivers, their dynamics, science and socio-economic aspect is very important. However, different sources provide different data base for rivers. But a book which explains all major rivers of a country at a single place was not yet available. This book is the first book of its kind in the world which provides expert opinion on all major rivers of a country like India. This book complements works in these areas for the last two to three decades on major rivers of India by eminent professors and scientists from different universities, IITs and Indian research institutions. The information presented in the book would appeal to a wider readership from students, teachers to researchers and planners engaged in developmental work and also to common people of the society concerned with awareness about rivers.
Author | : Victor Mallet |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198786174 |
India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India. Victor Mallet traces the holy river from source to mouth, and from ancient times to the present day, to find that the battle to rescue what is arguably the world's most important river is far from lost.
Author | : M. Monirul Qader Mirza |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2008-07-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 020389457X |
Inter-basin water transfers are complex human interventions on natural systems that can have profound adverse as well as beneficial social, economic and environmental implications. India‘s plan to interlink its rivers (ILR) and to transfer water may, according to one set of views, generate positive benefits through improved and expanded irrigation
Author | : Sudipta Sen |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2019-01-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030011916X |
A sweeping, interdisciplinary history of the world's third-largest river, a potent symbol across South Asia and the Hindu diaspora Originating in the Himalayas and flowing into the Bay of Bengal, the Ganges is India's most important and sacred river. In this unprecedented work, historian Sudipta Sen tells the story of the Ganges, from the communities that arose on its banks to the merchants that navigated its waters, and the way it came to occupy center stage in the history and culture of the subcontinent. Sen begins his chronicle in prehistoric India, tracing the river's first settlers, its myths of origin in the Hindu tradition, and its significance during the ascendancy of popular Buddhism. In the following centuries, Indian empires, Central Asian regimes, European merchants, the British Empire, and the Indian nation-state all shaped the identity and ecology of the river. Weaving together geography, environmental politics, and religious history, Sen offers in this lavishly illustrated volume a remarkable portrait of one of the world's largest and most densely populated river basins.
Author | : Daniel Haines |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9781849047166 |
Daniel Haines uncovers the history of one of the most important factors in relations between these two South Asian powers -- water
Author | : David L. Haberman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2006-09-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520247906 |
"Very few scholars in religious studies have achieved Haberman's combination of textual and ethnographic authority. The book is groundbreaking, building on his achievements in the study of the religious traditions of Braj; he is widely regarded as a major authority on this area of Hinduism's complex regional matrix. The superior scholarship, combined with the author's personal voice, gives the book additional resonance, bringing to light an urgent environmental and moral challenge."—Paul B. Courtright, co-editor, From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays in Gender, Religion, and Culture