The Indian Rivers: Scientific and Socio-economic Aspects (Springer Hydrogeology)

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi Concept of Rivers: An Introduction for Scientific and Socioeconomic Aspects (Dhruv Sen Singh)....Pages 1-23 Rivers in Ancient India (D. P. Tewari)....Pages 25-34 Eternal Relation of Human Emotions and Rivers in Hindi Literature (Hemanshu Sen)....Pages 35-45 Landscape of the Indus River (Anil Kumar, Pradeep Srivastava)....Pages 47-59 The Ganga River: A Summary View of a Large River System of the Indian Sub-Continent (S. K. Tandon, R. Sinha)....Pages 61-73 Ganga: The Arterial River of India (Pramod Singh, Dhruv Sen Singh, Uma Kant Shukla)....Pages 75-92 The Brahmaputra River (Sunil Kumar Singh)....Pages 93-104 Alakhnanda–Bhagirathi River System (Sandeep Singh)....Pages 105-114 River Ramganga: A Less Discussed Tributary of Ganga River (Ajai Mishra, Shalini Verma, Daya Shankar Singh)....Pages 115-122 The Yamuna River: Longest Tributary of Ganga ( Nishat, Dhruv Sen Singh)....Pages 123-133 The Gomati River: Lifeline of Central Ganga Plain (Anjani K. Tangri, Dhirendra Kumar, Dhruv Sen Singh, Chetan Anand Dubey)....Pages 135-150 Ghaghara River System—Its Current Status and Value to Society (Rajiva Mohan)....Pages 151-164 The Rapti River: Odyssey from Nepal to India (Biswajeet Thakur, Dhruv Sen Singh)....Pages 165-175 The Chhoti Gandak River: Parinirvan Place of Gautam Buddha (Amit Kumar Awasthi, Vikram Bhardwaj, Shailendra Kumar Prajapati, Dhruv Sen Singh)....Pages 177-190 The Son, A Vindhyan River (Chinmaya Maharana, Jayant K. Tripathi)....Pages 191-197 The Great Gandak River: A Place of First Republic and Oldest University in the World (Dhruv Sen Singh)....Pages 199-208 The Burhi Gandak: Most Sinuous River (Dhruv Sen Singh, Abhay Kumar Tiwari, Pawan Kumar Gautam)....Pages 209-219 The Dynamic Kosi River and Its Tributaries (Vikrant Jain, Rakesh Kumar, Rahul Kumar Kaushal, Tanushri Gautam, S. K. Singh)....Pages 221-237 Analysis of Mahananda River Basin Using Geospatial Data (Narendra Kumar Rana)....Pages 239-250 Hooghly River (Prabhat Ranjan, Alagappan Ramanathan)....Pages 251-257 Damodar River Basin: Storehouse of Indian Coal (G. C. Mondal, Abhay Kumar Singh, T. B. Singh)....Pages 259-272 Subarnarekha River: The Gold Streak of India (Abhay Kumar Singh, Soma Giri)....Pages 273-285 The Mahi: An Important West Flowing River of Central India (Anupam Sharma, Kamlesh Kumar)....Pages 287-299 Narmada: The Longest Westward Flowing River of the Peninsular India (P. K. Kathal)....Pages 301-308 Mahanadi: The Great River (Raj K. Singh, Moumita Das)....Pages 309-318 Godavari River: Geomorphology and Socio-economic Characteristics (Md. Babar, R. D. Kaplay)....Pages 319-337 Krishna River Basin (Anirban Das, Meet Panchal)....Pages 339-351 Cauvery River (S. Chidambaram, A. L. Ramanathan, R. Thilagavathi, N. Ganesh)....Pages 353-366 Trans- and Tethyan Himalayan Rivers: In Reference to Ladakh and Lahaul-Spiti, NW Himalaya (Binita Phartiyal, Randheer Singh, Debarati Nag)....Pages 367-382 Major River Systems of Jammu and Kashmir (Aparna Shukla, Iram Ali)....Pages 383-411 Rivers of Uttarakhand Himalaya: Impact of Floods in the Pindar and Saryu Valleys (Lalit M. Joshi, Anoop K. Singh, Bahadur S. Kotlia)....Pages 413-427 The Major Drainage Systems in the Northeastern Region of India (Rahul Verma)....Pages 429-464 Rivers of Mainland Gujarat: Physical Environment and Socio-economic Perspectives (Alpa Sridhar, L. S. Chamyal)....Pages 465-478 Purna River, Maharashtra (Ashok K. Srivastava, Vivek M. Kale)....Pages 479-502 Saraswati River: It’s Past and Present (G. S. Srivastava)....Pages 503-521 Subansiri: Largest Tributary of Brahmaputra River, Northeast India (Manish Kumar Goyal, Shivam, Arup K. Sarma, Dhruv Sen Singh)....Pages 523-535 Teesta River and Its Ecosystem (Manish Kumar Goyal, Uttam Puri Goswami)....Pages 537-551