The Indian Rivers: Scientific and Socio-Economic Aspects

1. Concept of Rivers: An Introduction for Scientific and Socioeconomic Aspects/Dhruv Sen Singh 2. Rivers in Ancient India/D.P. Tewari 3. Eternal Relation of Human Emotions and Rivers in Hindi Literature/Hemanshu Sen 4. Landscape of the Indus River/Anil Kumar and Pradeep Srivastava 5. The Ganga River: A Summary View of a Large River System of the Indian Sub-Continent/S.K. Tandon and R. Sinha 6. Ganga: The Arterial River of India/Pramod Singh, Dhruv Sen Singh and Uma Kant Shukla 7. The Brahmaputra River/Sunil Kumar Singh 8. AlakhnandaBhagirathi River System/Sandeep Singh 9. River Ramganga: A Less Discussed Tributary of Ganga River/Ajai Mishra, Shalini Verma and Daya Shankar Singh 10. The Yamuna River: Longest Tributary of Ganga/Nishat and Dhruv Sen Singh 11. The Gomati River: Lifeline of Central Ganga Plain/Anjani K. Tangri, Dhirendra Kumar, Dhruv Sen Singh and Chetan Anand Dubey 12. Ghaghara River SystemIts Current Status and Value to Society/Rajiva Mohan 13. The Rapti River: Odyssey from Nepal to India/Biswajeet Thakur and Dhruv Sen Singh 14. The Chhoti Gandak River: Parinirvan Place of Gautam Buddha/Amit Kumar Awasthi, Vikram Bhardwaj, Shailendra Kumar Prajapati and Dhruv Sen Singh 15. The Son, A Vindhyan River/Chinmaya Maharana and Jayant K. Tripathi 16. The Great Gandak River: A Place of First Republic and Oldest University in the World/Dhruv Sen Singh 17. The Burhi Gandak: Most Sinuous River/Dhruv Sen Singh, Abhay Kumar Tiwari and Pawan Kumar Gautam 18. The Dynamic Kosi River and Its Tributaries/Vikrant Jain, Rakesh Kumar, Rahul Kumar Kaushal, Tanushri Gautam and S.K. Singh 19. Analysis of Mahananda River Basin Using Geospatial Data/Narendra Kumar Rana 20. Hooghly River/Prabhat Ranjan and Alagappan Ramanathan 21 Damodar River Basin: Storehouse of Indian Coal/G.C. Mondal, Abhay Kumar Singh and T.B. Singh 22. Subarnarekha River: The Gold Streak of India/Abhay Kumar Singh and Soma Giri 23. The Mahi: An Important West Flowing River of Central India/Anupam Sharma and Kamlesh Kumar 24. Narmada: The Longest Westward Flowing River of the Peninsular India/P.K. Kathal 25. Mahanadi: The Great River/Raj K. Singh and Moumita Das 26. Godavari River: Geomorphology and Socio-economic Characteristics/Md. Babar and R.D. Kaplay 27. Krishna River Basin/Anirban Das and Meet Panchal 28. Cauvery River/S. Chidambaram, A.L. Ramanathan, R. Thilagavathi and N. Ganesh 29. Trans- and Tethyan Himalayan Rivers: In Reference to Ladakh and Lahaul-Spiti, NW Himalaya/Binita Phartiyal, Randheer Singh and Debarati Nag 30. Major River Systems of Jammu and Kashmir/Aparna Shukla and Iram Ali 31. Rivers of Uttarakhand Himalaya: Impact of Floods in the Pindar and Saryu Valleys/Lalit M. Joshi, Anoop K. Singh and Bahadur S. Kotlia 32. The Major Drainage Systems in the Northeastern Region of India/Rahul Verma 33. Rivers of Mainland Gujarat: Physical Environment and Socioeconomic Perspectives/Alpa Sridhar and L.S. Chamyal 34. Purna River, Maharashtra/Ashok K. Srivastava and Vivek M. Kale 35. Saraswati River: Its Past and Present/G.S. Srivastava 36. Subansiri: Largest Tributary of Brahmaputra River, Northeast India/Manish Kumar Goyal, Shivam, Arup K. Sarma and Dhruv Sen Singh 37. Teesta River and Its Ecosystem/Manish Kumar Goyal and Uttam Puri Goswami 38. Correction to: Cauvery River/S. Chidambaram, A.L. Ramanathan, R. Thilagavathi and N. Ganesh 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.…