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The Ganga

Water Use in the Indian Subcontinent

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Pranab Kumar Parua

    1. Kolkata, India

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Part of the book series: Water Science and Technology Library (WSTL, volume 64)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. The Ganga in Mythologies

    • Pranab Kumar Parua
    Pages 1-4

  3. The Real Ganga In India and Bangladesh

    • Pranab Kumar Parua
    Pages 5-14

  4. The Ganga Geology

    • Pranab Kumar Parua
    Pages 15-21

  5. The Ganga’s Hydrology

    • Pranab Kumar Parua
    Pages 23-34

  6. The Ganga Morphology

    • Pranab Kumar Parua
    Pages 35-59

  7. Decline of Bhagirathi-Hooghly Channel

    • Pranab Kumar Parua
    Pages 61-77

  8. Only a Barrage Can Save!

    • Pranab Kumar Parua
    Pages 79-106

  9. Inconsistency, or A Conspiracy?

    • Pranab Kumar Parua
    Pages 107-131

  10. Turmoil Over Water Diversion

    • Pranab Kumar Parua
    Pages 133-147

  11. Agreements & MOUs

    • Pranab Kumar Parua
    Pages 149-219

  12. What Went Wrong?

    • Pranab Kumar Parua
    Pages 221-229

  13. Chronology of Events

    • Pranab Kumar Parua
    Pages 231-245

  14. The Ganga Basin Management

    • Pranab Kumar Parua
    Pages 247-265

  15. Necessity of Regional Co-operation

    • Pranab Kumar Parua
    Pages 267-282

  16. My Views

    • Pranab Kumar Parua
    Pages 283-326

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 327-391
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From time immemorial the Bengal Delta had been an important maritime des- nation for traders from all parts of the world. The actual location of the port of call varied from time to time in line with the natural hydrographic changes. From the early decades of the second millennium AD, traders from the European con- nent also joined the traders from the Arab countries, who had been the Forerunners in maritime trading with India. Daring traders and fortune seekers from Denmark, Holland, Belgium and England arrived at different ports of call along the Hooghly river. The river had been, in the meantime, losing its pre-eminence as the main outlet channel of the sacred Ganga into the Bay of Bengal, owing to a shift of ?ow towards east near Rajmahal into the Padma, which had been so long, carried very small part of the large volume of ?ow. On a cloudy afternoon on August 24, 1690 the British seafarer Job Charnock rested his oars at Kolkata and started a new chapter in the life of a sleepy village, bordering the Sunderbans which was ‘a tangled region of estuaries, rivers and water courses, enclosing a vast number of islands of various shapes and sizes. ’ and infested with a large variety of wild animals. In the language of the British Nobel Laureate (1907) Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). ???? ???? Thus the midday halt of Charnock grew a city.

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  • Kolkata, India

    Pranab Kumar Parua

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