The lower reaches are sacred to Hindus. While most rivers on the Indian subcontinent have female names, this river has a rare male name, as it means “son of Brahma” in Sanskrit (putra means “son”). Note : The above story is based on materials provided byWikipedia ...
, who constitute the majority of the population, are understood to be descendants of the early inhabitants of India (the so-called Dravidians), who were driven southward between about 2000 and 1500 bce when the Aryans (speakers of Indo-Aryan languages) descended into the Indian subcontinent. ...
Chenab River, river of the Indian subcontinent in northwestern India and northeastern and eastern Pakistan. The Chenab is formed by the confluence of two streams, Chandra and Bhaga, in the western (Punjab) Himalayas in India’s Himachal Pradesh state. It
Storying Anthropocene Waters: Advocacy through Resacralization in Postcolonial River Narratives of the Indian Subcontinentdoi:10.3390/rel15101222Against the background of contemporary debates about the Anthropocene and the attendant danger of global warming and climate change, which is causally linked to ...
There is similarly no agreement on what language was spoken by these people, but they wrote using a script referred to as the Indus Script, which is the earliest form of writing on the Indian subcontinent. The Yellow River Valley Civilization The Yellow River Valley Civilization is the site ...
Only the Amazon and Congo rivers have a greater average discharge than the combined flow of the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, and the Surma-Meghna river system. In full flood only the Amazon is larger Geology The Indian subcontinent lies atop the Indian tectonic plate, a minor plate within the Ind...
The discoveries of Harappa, and the site of its fellow Indus city Mohenjo-daro, were the culmination of work beginning in 1861 with the founding of the Archaeological Survey of India in the British Raj, the common name for British imperial rule over the Indian subcontinent from 1858 through ...
in northern Indian subcontinent, and the Parana in northern South America show the highest net decrease (−5~−10%), signifying the strongest signal of river narrowing. In contrast to highly dynamic changes in river basins in South and East Asia, stability is the dominant signal in the mid...
India is located on the South Asian subcontinent and covers around 3,300,000 km2. India's average annual precipitation of is 1,170 mm,but the spatial and temporal distribution is very uneven.Rainfall in India varies between about 100mm in Rajasthan and 1,200 mm in Cirapunji.The north easte...
3b). This is caused by a balance between inputs from East Asia and the Indian Subcontinent during the northern hemisphere summer and contributions from Southeast Asia during the southern hemisphere summer. For other parts of the world, our model showed two distinct river plastic input peaks: one...