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Abstract

Jawaharlal Nehru wrote in his ‘Discovery of India’: The Ganga is above all the River of India which had held India’s heart captive and drawn unaccounted millions to her banks since the dawn of history. The story of the Ganga from her source to sea, from old times to new, is the story of India’s civilization and culture, of the rise and fall of empires, of great and proud cities, of the adventure of man and the quest of the mind which has so occupied India’s thinkers, of the richness and fulfillment of life as well as its denial and reunification of the ups and downs, of growth and decay of life and death.