Saraswati: The River that DisappearedThis Book Is About The River Saraswati That Vanished More Than 2000 Years Ago. Written In Simple Language Shorn Of Technical Jargon, It Explores The Existence Of A Mighty, Snow-Fed River, Traces Its Course From The Foothills Of The Himalayas To The Shores Of The Arabian Sea And Outlines The History Of Human Settlements Along This River. It Finally Highlights The Geological Events That Overtook The Land Leading To The Disappearance Of The River That Was Once The Lifeline Of The People That Inhabited Its Floodplain. It Is Lavishly Illustrated In Both Colour And Black And White. |
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Allah Band Allchin Arabian Sea Aravali Range aridity BAHAWALPUR Bakliwal Banawali Barwani-Jaisalmer basin BetDwarka Bhan Bisht Chambal Chautang Chenab Cholistan continental crust Delhi Dholavira discharge drainage Drishadvati Dwarka Early Harappan earthquakes erosion fault Figure floodplain flow freshwater Ganga Geol geological Ghaggar Gujarat Gulf of Kachchh Hakra Hanging wall Harappan civilization Harappan culture Himalaya Holocene Hyderabad Indo-Gangetic Plains Indus Civilization JAISALMER Joshi and Bisht Kalibangan KURUKSHETRA land Late Harappan Lothal Luni Lunkaransar Mahabharata Markanda metamorphic Misra Mohenjodaro mountain Mughal northwestern India palaeochannels Palaeolithic Paonta Sahab Parva perennial rivers period Plate Pollens Rajasthan Rann of Kachchh region Remote Sensing Agency ridge Rigveda riverine rock composed ROPAR saline lakes sand Saraswati delta Saraswati floodplain Saraswati River Sarsuti satellite Satluj sedimentary sediments seismicity Shatadru Sindhu Sindhu River Sirsa Siwalik Hills Stone Age stream terrace Thapar Thar Desert tract uplift upstream Valdiya Valley Vedic western Rajasthan Wind-blown Yamuna yr BP
References to this book
River of Love in an Age of Pollution: The Yamuna River of Northern India David Haberman Limited preview - 2023 |