The Indian Rivers

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Concept of Rivers: An Introduction for Scientific and Socioeconomic Aspects

   • Dhruv Sen Singh

   Pages 1-23

3. Rivers in Ancient India

   • D. P. Tewari

   Pages 25-34

4. Eternal Relation of Human Emotions and Rivers in Hindi Literature

   • Hemanshu Sen

   Pages 35-45

5. Landscape of the Indus River

   • Anil Kumar, Pradeep Srivastava

   Pages 47-59

6. The Ganga River: A Summary View of a Large River System of the Indian Sub-Continent

   • S. K. Tandon, R. Sinha

   Pages 61-73

7. Ganga: The Arterial River of India

   • Pramod Singh, Dhruv Sen Singh, Uma Kant Shukla

   Pages 75-92

8. The Brahmaputra River

   • Sunil Kumar Singh

   Pages 93-104

9. Alakhnanda–Bhagirathi River System

   • Sandeep Singh

   Pages 105-114

10. River Ramganga: A Less Discussed Tributary of Ganga River

    • Ajai Mishra, Shalini Verma, Daya Shankar Singh

    Pages 115-122

11. The Yamuna River: Longest Tributary of Ganga

    • Nishat, Dhruv Sen Singh

    Pages 123-133

12. The Gomati River: Lifeline of Central Ganga Plain

    • Anjani K. Tangri, Dhirendra Kumar, Dhruv Sen Singh, Chetan Anand Dubey

    Pages 135-150

13. Ghaghara River System—Its Current Status and Value to Society

    • Rajiva Mohan

    Pages 151-164

14. The Rapti River: Odyssey from Nepal to India

    • Biswajeet Thakur, Dhruv Sen Singh

    Pages 165-175

15. The Chhoti Gandak River: Parinirvan Place of Gautam Buddha

    • Amit Kumar Awasthi, Vikram Bhardwaj, Shailendra Kumar Prajapati, Dhruv Sen Singh

    Pages 177-190

16. The Son, A Vindhyan River

    • Chinmaya Maharana, Jayant K. Tripathi

    Pages 191-197

17. The Great Gandak River: A Place of First Republic and Oldest University in the World

    • Dhruv Sen Singh

    Pages 199-208

18. The Burhi Gandak: Most Sinuous River

    • Dhruv Sen Singh, Abhay Kumar Tiwari, Pawan Kumar Gautam

    Pages 209-219

19. The Dynamic Kosi River and Its Tributaries

    • Vikrant Jain, Rakesh Kumar, Rahul Kumar Kaushal, Tanushri Gautam, S. K. Singh

    Pages 221-237

20. Analysis of Mahananda River Basin Using Geospatial Data

    • Narendra Kumar Rana

    Pages 239-250

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.

• Indian Rivers
• Geomorphology
• Natural Hazards
• Socio-Economic Impact
• Brahmaputra River
• Ganga River
• Yamuna River
• Drainage Systems
• Hydrogeomorphological Work
• hydrogeology
• economic geology

• Centre of Advanced Study in Geology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India

  Dhruv Sen Singh

Dr. Dhruv Sen Singh is eminent Professor and renowned teacher at the Centre of Advanced Study in Geology, University of Lucknow, India. Dr. Singh has 21 years of experience in teaching and research, primarily in the areas Climate Change, Glaciology, Quaternary Geology, Rivers of India (Ganga Plains) and natural hazards. He has published over 50 research papers in international and national journals and presented several papers in International and National conferences. He has edited and authored four books and supervised 9 Ph.D. students. While working on the Gangotri Glacier, he has observed some geological phenomena and concluded in 2001 and again in 2016 that the retreat of the glacier is controlled by glacier characteristics apart from global warming and there is no threat to the Gangotri glacier. On the basis of this observation and geological records he explained that melting of glaciers and climate change is a natural process and had taken place earlier during the history of the earth much before the evolution of man on the planet earth. He also identified lateral erosion as a new fluvial hazard in 2011. He was also involved in developing the model for the evolution of Ganga Plain foreland basin. He explained and highlighted in 2002 in Gangotri Glacier area and again in 2014 in Kedarnath area that how the landforms and landscape in a glaciated terrain are modified by secondary processes. He is actively involved in the scientific mainly geological knowledge dissemination and trying his best to apply Geology for the human welfare.

Dr. Singh was a member of the first and second Indian Expedition to the Arctic (North Pole Region) in 2007 and 2008. He is recipient of Vigyan Ratna Award in 2010 by the Council of Science and Technology (CST), Government of Uttar Pradesh. His teaching capabilities and research work achieved a new height when Department of Higher Education, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow conferred him with the highest award of ‘Sikchhak Shree’ in 2013 and Saraswati Samman in 2014.