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Author : Kelly D. Alley
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0472068083
Explores the collision of sacred purity with environmental pollution of the river Ganga (Ganges)
Author : Sidney Laman Blanchard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015058536411
Author : Sudipta Sen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300119169
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 : Victor Mallet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780198786177
India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India. The waterway that has nourished more people than any on earth for three millennia is now so polluted with sewage and toxic waste that it has become a menace to human and animal health. 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. As one Hindu sage told the author in Rishikesh on the banks of the upper Ganges (known to Hindus as the goddess Ganga): "If Ganga dies, India dies. If Ganga thrives, India thrives. The lives of 500 million people is no small thing." Drawing on four years of first-hand reporting and detailed historical and scientific research, Mallet delves into the religious, historical, and biological mysteries of the Ganges, and explains how Hindus can simultaneously revere and abuse their national river. Starting at the Himalayan glacier where the Ganges emerges pure and cold from an icy cave known as the "Cow's Mouth" and ending in the tiger-infested mangrove swamps of the Bay of Bengal, Mallet encounters everyone from the naked holy men who worship the river, to the engineers who divert its waters for irrigation, the scientists who study its bacteria, and Narendra Modi, the Hindu nationalist prime minister, who says he wants to save India's mother-river for posterity. Can they succeed in saving the river from catastrophe - or is it too late?
Author : Felix Wilfred
Publisher : ISPCK
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Christianity and culture
ISBN : 8172146450
Author : Ezekiel N. Musleah
Publisher : North Quincy, Mass. : Christopher Publishing House
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014293867
Author : George Black
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781250057358
Travel along the shores of the Ganges and glimpse the past and future of the people who live there.
Author : David Cumming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0836854438
The Ganges is India's most famous river. From its source high in the Himalaya Mountains to its main mouth in Bangladesh, it flows through one of the world's most crowded regions. To Hindus everywhere, the Ganges is a holy river, and it has been closely associated with India's long history. The river also helps support millions of people -- from farmers to fishermen to traders -- and many industries have grown up along its banks. The Ganges is home to an amazing variety of animals and plants, including the rare Ganges River dolphin and the Royal Bengal tiger. Today, it makes news with its dramatic floods and pollution problems. Book jacket.
Author : Tbd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 046143024X
Author : Sidney Laman Blanchard
Publisher : Arkose Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1345248903
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Julian Crandall Hollick
Publisher : Shearwater Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015073641121
Combining travelogue, science, and history, Ganga is an extraordinary journey through northern India: from the river's source high in the Himalayas, past great cities and poor villages, to lush Saggar Island, where the river finally meets the sea. Along the way Julian Crandall Hollick encounters priests and pilgrims, dacoits and dolphins, the fishermen who subsist on the river, and the villagers whose lives have been destroyed by her. He finds that popular devotion to Ganga is stronger and blinder than ever, and it is putting her--and her people--in great risk.
Author : Ted Lewin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995-07-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547562742
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 : Aldo Pavan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0500512590
A photographic tour of the entire course of one of India's most sacred rivers traces its 1,550-mile route from its headwaters in the Himalayan glaciers to the Delta's thousand fingers in the Bay of Bengal, in a visual journey that also offers insight into the lives of fishermen, merchants, and sadhus who spend their lives along the Ganges banks.
Author : Raghubir Singh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0500284105
Photographs and text capture the many moods and essence of the Ganges River.
Author : Giulio Di Sturco
Publisher : Gost Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Ganges River (India and Bangladesh)
ISBN : 1910401285
A ten-year photographic journey along the river Ganges documenting the effects of pollution, industrialisation and climate change.
