Ganges and Related Topics

Murshidabad

Historical city in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Painting of the garden, mosque and prince's pavilions in Motijhil (pearl lake)

A Jain temple in the mansion of Jagat Seth, a historically prominent banking family of Murshidabad

Murshidabad District has several terracotta Bengali Hindu temples

Khushbagh is the cemetery of the last independent rulers of Murshidabad

Two horsemen, Murshidabad style of painting

Woman playing the sitar, Murshidabad style of painting

An elevated musicians' gallery where drums, flutes and Indian classical music would be played.

It is located on the eastern bank of the Bhagirathi River, a distributary of the Ganges.

Confluence of Alaknanda River and the Bhagirathi and the beginning of the main stem of the Ganges river, or Ganga

Devprayag (Deva prayāga) is a town and a nagar panchayat (municipality) in Tehri Garhwal District in the state of Uttarakhand, India, and is the final one of the Panch Prayag (five confluences) of Alaknanda River where Alaknanda meets the Bhagirathi river and both rivers thereafter flow on as the Ganges river or Ganga.

Pollution of the Ganges

A satellite view of the Manasarovar (right) and Rakshastal lakes with Mount Kailash in the background

A map of the Ganges (orange), Brahmaputra (violet), and Meghna (green) drainage basins

Pollution of the Ganges, the largest river in India, poses significant threats to human health and the larger environment.

Vindhya range seen from Mandav, Madhya Pradesh

Kaimur Range

Eastern portion of the Vindhya Range, about 483 km long, extending from around Katangi in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh to around Sasaram in Rohtas district of Bihar.

A Neolithic settlement was also discovered in the thick of the alluvium, over the bank of the Ganges at Chirand.

Confluence of the Dhauliganga (right) with the Alaknanda (left) at Vishnuprayag

Panch Prayag

Expression in Hindu religious ethos, specifically used to connote the five sacred river confluences in the Garhwal Himalayas in the state of Uttarakhand, India.

The Nandakini River (foreground) meets the Alaknanda River (background) in Nandprayag, in the Garhwal Himalayas, Uttarakhand, India.

Karna Prayag confluence of Alaknanda and Pindar Rivers

Rudraprayag, the confluence of the Alaknanda (foreground) and the Mandakini rivers.

Dev Prayag - Confluence of Alakananda (right) and Bhagirathi (left) Rivers

It starts with the Vishnu Prayag on the Alaknanda River, which is one of the two source streams of the river Ganga in the Garhwal Himalayas; the other streams are the Dhauliganga, Nandakini, Pindar, Mandakini and the Bhagirathi - the head stream of the Ganges.

Rajasthan

State in northern India.

Ghateshwara Mahadeva temple at the Baroli Temple Complex. The temples were built between the 10th and 11th centuries CE by the Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty.

Akbar shoots the Rajput commander Jaimal using a matchlock, during the Siege of Chittor (1567–1568).

The great Indian bustard has been classed as critically endangered species since 2011.

Reclining tiger, Ranthambore National Park

Lake Palace and Jag Mandir from a distance, Lake Pichola, Udaipur.

Timeline of the Bhadla Solar Park (India) development, the World's largest photovoltaic power plants cluster in 2020

Wind turbines near Bada Bagh, Rajasthan.

Dal Bati Choorma, a traditional Rajasthani Dish

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The emperor Hemu, who rose from obscurity and briefly established himself as ruler in northern India, from Punjab to Bengal, in defiance of the warring Sur and Mughal Empires.

Maharana Udai Singh II founded Udaipur, which became the new capital of the Mewar kingdom after Chittor Fort was conquered by the Mughal emperor Akbar.

Maharana Pratap Singh, sixteenth-century Rajput ruler of Mewar, known for his defence of his realm against Mughal invasion.

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Mount Abu is a popular hill station in Rajasthan.

The Jaipur Metro is an important urban transportation link

Demoiselle cranes in Khichan near Bikaner

Amber Fort has seen from the bank of Maotha Lake, Jaigarh Fort on the hills in the background

Eastern and southeastern Rajasthan is drained by the Banas and Chambal rivers, tributaries of the Ganges.

Carved statue in the medieval city of Sirpur

Chhattisgarh

Landlocked state in Central India.

6th 7th century Bhima Kichak Temple, Malhar Chhattisgarh India - 7

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Tendu Patta (Leaf) collection in Chhattisgarh, India.

Danteshwari Temple is one of the Shakti peethas

A carving in the 10th- or 11th-century Hindu temple of Malhar village. This area, 40 km from Bilaspur, was supposedly a major Buddhist centre in ancient times.

Suwa Nacha at Khudmudi Village, Chhattisgarh

Red Velvet Mite is used as medicine in traditional healing in Chhattisgarh

Chloroxylon is used for pest management in organic rice cultivation in Chhattisgarh

Medicinal rice of Chhattisgarh used as an immune booster

Herbal farming in Chhattisgarh: Gulbakawali

Herbal farming in Chhattisgarh: Safed Musli with Arhar

Kodo Millet is used as a life saving medicine in Chhattisgarh

The Rihand River, a tributary of the Ganges, drains this area.

Hajipur

Headquarters and largest city of Vaishali district of the state of Bihar in India.

Hajipur lies on the north bank of the Ganga while Patna lies on the south, the Gandhi Setu bridge connects both cities.

South Asian river dolphin

The South Asian river dolphins are two species of toothed whales in the genus Platanista, both of which live in fresh water habitats in northern South Asia.

They are found in the Indus River and connected channels, in the Beas River, in the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers and their tributaries in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Nepal.

Kanpur

Industrial city in the central-western part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Aerial view of Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University

Nestled on the banks of Ganges River, Kanpur stands as the major financial and industrial centre of North India and also the ninth-largest urban economy in India.