🌊 Rivers · Northern and North-eastern Mountains
Ganga
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India’s most important river by basin and culture. It rises in the Gangotri glacier near Gaumukh (3,900 m) as the Bhagirathi, meets the Alaknanda at Devprayag and becomes the Ganga, enters the plains at Haridwar and splits into the Bhagirathi and the Padma before reaching the Bay of Bengal near Sagar Island. The Son is its main right-bank tributary; on the left it takes the Ramganga, Gomati, Ghaghara, Gandak, Kosi and Mahananda. The Namami Gange Programme was approved in June 2014 to clean and conserve it.
📘 NCERT Class 11, India: Physical Environment, Ch. 3 (Drainage System) ↗
Tributaries and parts of this system
📜 Near here in history
YugMap sites and events within about 20 km of the river as drawn on the map.
- c. 2,000 BCE Copper hoards and OCP settlements in the doab
- c. 1,000 BCE Painted Grey Ware settlements spread in the doab
- c. 321 BCE Chandragupta Maurya overthrows the Nandas
- c. 185 BCE Pushyamitra Shunga assassinates Brihadratha
- c. 319 CE Gupta era begins
- 499 CE Aryabhata writes the Aryabhatiya
- c. 816 CE Nagabhata II captures Kannauj
- 1540 Battle of Kannauj
- 1690 Job Charnock founds Calcutta
- 1757 Battle of Plassey
- 1764 Battle of Buxar
- 1765 Diwani of Bengal granted
- 1905 Swadeshi movement launched
- 1943 Bengal famine
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