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493 relations: Abyssal fan, Adi Ganga, Agastya, Agni, Agra famine of 1837–1838, Ahichchhatra, Ajay River, Alaknanda River, Aligarh, Amazon River, Amazon river dolphin, Amphibian, Annapurna, Araguaian river dolphin, Aravalli Range, Arrah, Ashvin (month), Asian elephant, Asian giant softshell turtle, Asiatic lion, Avulsion (river), Śrāddha, Badoli, Bagarius, Bagridae, Baiji, Ballia, Bangladesh, Bansagar Dam, Barak River, Baranagar, Barasingha, Barilius, Barisal Division, Baroli Temples, Barrackpore, Barrage (dam), Bay of Bengal, Begusarai, Bengal Fan, Bengal fox, Bengal tiger, Berhampore, Bhagalpur, Bhagiratha, Bhagirathi River, Bhishma, Bhola Sadar Upazila, Bhutan, Bihar, ... Expand index (443 more) »
- Bangladesh–India border
- Braided rivers in India
- Environmental personhood
- Ganges basin
- National symbols of India
- Rigvedic rivers
- Rivers in Buddhism
- Rivers of Bihar
- Rivers of Delhi
- Rivers of Jharkhand
- Rivers of Uttarakhand
- Sacred rivers
Abyssal fan
Abyssal fans, also known as deep-sea fans, underwater deltas, and submarine fans, are underwater geological structures associated with large-scale sediment deposition and formed by turbidity currents.
Adi Ganga
Adi Ganga (also known as the Gobindapur Creek and Tolly's Canal), is a stream that was part of the Hooghly River in the Kolkata area of India. Ganges and Adi Ganga are rivers of West Bengal.
Agastya
Agastya was a revered Indian sage of Hinduism.
Agni
Agni (अग्नि) is the Hindu god of fire.
See Ganges and Agni
Agra famine of 1837–1838
The Agra famine of 1837–1838 was a famine in the newly established North-Western Provinces (formerly Ceded and Conquered Provinces) of Company-ruled India that affected an area of and a population of 8 million people.
See Ganges and Agra famine of 1837–1838
Ahichchhatra
Ahichchhatra or Ahikhet (अहिच्छत्र) or Ahikshetra (अहिक्षेत्र), near the modern Ramnagar village in Aonla tehsil, Bareilly district in Uttar Pradesh, India, was the ancient capital of Northern Panchala, a northern Indian kingdom mentioned in the Mahabharata.
Ajay River
The Ajay (/ˈədʒɑɪ/) is a river which flows through the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. Ganges and Ajay River are rivers of Bihar, rivers of Jharkhand and rivers of West Bengal.
Alaknanda River
The Alaknanda is a turbulent Himalayan river in the Indian state of Uttarakhand and one of the two headstreams of the Ganges, the major river of Northern India and a river considered holy in Hinduism. Ganges and Alaknanda River are rivers of Uttarakhand.
See Ganges and Alaknanda River
Aligarh
Aligarh (formerly known as Koil) is a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.
Amazon River
The Amazon River (Río Amazonas, Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the longest or second-longest river system in the world, a title which is disputed with the Nile. The headwaters of the Apurímac River on Nevado Mismi had been considered for nearly a century the Amazon basin's most distant source until a 2014 study found it to be the headwaters of the Mantaro River on the Cordillera Rumi Cruz in Peru.
Amazon river dolphin
The Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), also known as the boto, bufeo or pink river dolphin, is a species of toothed whale endemic to South America and is classified in the family Iniidae.
See Ganges and Amazon river dolphin
Amphibian
Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniotic, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia.
Annapurna
Annapurna (अन्नपूर्ण) is a mountain situated in the Annapurna mountain range of Gandaki Province, north-central Nepal.
Araguaian river dolphin
The Araguaian river dolphin or Araguaian boto (Inia araguaiaensis) is a South American river dolphin population native to the Araguaia–Tocantins basin of Brazil.
See Ganges and Araguaian river dolphin
Aravalli Range
The Aravalli Range (also spelled Aravali) is a mountain range in Northern-Western India, running approximately in a south-west direction, starting near Delhi, passing through southern Haryana, Rajasthan, and ending in Ahmedabad Gujarat.
Arrah
Arrah (also transliterated as Ara) is a city and a municipal corporation in Bhojpur district (formerly known as Shahabad district) in the Indian state of Bihar. It is the headquarters of Bhojpur district, located near the confluence of the Ganges and Sone rivers, some from Danapur and from Patna.
See Ganges and Arrah
Ashvin (month)
Ashvin or Ashwin or Ashwan (আশ্বিন; आश्विन; ଆଶ୍ୱିନ; Malay/Indonesian: Aswin; Thai: Asawin), also known as Aswayuja, is the seventh month of the lunisolar Hindu calendar, the solar Tamil calendar, where it is known as Aippasi, and the solar Indian national calendar.
Asian elephant
The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), also known as the Asiatic elephant, is a species of elephant distributed throughout the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, from India in the west to Borneo in the east, and Nepal in the north to Sumatra in the south. Ganges and Asian elephant are national symbols of India.
Asian giant softshell turtle
The Asian giant softshell turtle (Pelochelys cantorii), also known commonly as Cantor's giant softshell turtle and the frog-faced softshell turtle, is a species of freshwater turtle in the family Trionychidae.
See Ganges and Asian giant softshell turtle
Asiatic lion
The Asiatic lion is a lion population of the subspecies Panthera leo leo.
Avulsion (river)
In sedimentary geology and fluvial geomorphology, avulsion is the rapid abandonment of a river channel and the formation of a new river channel.
See Ganges and Avulsion (river)
Śrāddha
In Hinduism, Śrāddha (श्राद्ध), is the ritual that one performs to pay homage to one's pitṛs, especially to one's dead parents.
Badoli
Badoli is a village in Faridabad district of Haryana, India.
Bagarius
Bagarius (ปลาแค้) is an Asian genus of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Sisoridae.
Bagridae
The Bagridae are a family of catfish that are native to Africa (Bagrus) and Asia (all other genera) from Japan to Borneo.
Baiji
The baiji (IPA:; Lipotes vexillifer, Lipotes meaning "left behind" and vexillifer "flag bearer") is a possibly extinct species of freshwater dolphin native to the Yangtze river system in China.
See Ganges and Baiji
Ballia
Ballia is a city with a municipal board in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.
Bansagar Dam
Bansagar or Ban Sagar Dam is a multipurpose river Valley Project on Sone River situated in the Ganges Basin in Madhya Pradesh, India with both irrigation and 435 MW of hydroelectric power generation.
Barak River
The Barak River or Barbakro flows through the states of Manipur, Mizoram and Assam in India. Ganges and Barak River are Bangladesh–India border, border rivers, international rivers of Asia and rivers of Bangladesh.
Baranagar
Baranagar is a city and a municipality of Kolkata (Calcutta) in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Barasingha
The barasingha (Rucervus duvaucelii), sometimes barasinghe, also known as the swamp deer, is a deer species distributed in the Indian subcontinent.
Barilius
Barilius is a large genus of cyprinid freshwater fishes native to Asia.
Barisal Division
Barisal Division is one of the eight administrative divisions of Bangladesh.
See Ganges and Barisal Division
Baroli Temples
The Baroli Temples Complex, also known as the Badoli temples, is located in Baroli village in Rawatbhata City in Chittorgarh district of Rajasthan, India.
Barrackpore
Barrackpore (also known as Barrackpur) is a city and a municipality on the northern fringe of Kolkata and situated in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Barrage (dam)
A barrage is a type of low-head, diversion dam which consists of a number of large gates that can be opened or closed to control the amount of water passing through.
Bay of Bengal
The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. Ganges and Bay of Bengal are Bangladesh–India border.
Begusarai
Begusarai is the industrial and financial capital of Bihar and the administrative headquarters of the Begusarai district, which is one of the 38 districts of the Indian state of Bihar.
Bengal Fan
The Bengal Fan, also known as the Ganges Fan, is the largest submarine fan on Earth.
Bengal fox
The Bengal fox (Vulpes bengalensis), also known as the Indian fox, is a fox endemic to the Indian subcontinent from the Himalayan foothills and Terai of Nepal through southern India, and from southern and eastern Pakistan to eastern India and southeastern Bangladesh.
Bengal tiger
The Bengal tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies and the nominate tiger subspecies.
Berhampore
Berhampore, also known as Baharampur, is a city and a municipality in the state of West Bengal, India.
Bhagalpur
Bhagalpur, historically known as '''Champa Nagri''', is a city in the Indian state of Bihar, situated on the southern bank of the Ganges river.
Bhagiratha
Bhagiratha (भगीरथ) is a legendary king of the Ikshvaku dynasty in Hindu literature.
Bhagirathi River
The Bhāgīrathī (Pron: /ˌbʌgɪˈɹɑːθɪ/) is a turbulent Himalayan river in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, and one of the two headstreams of the Ganges, the major river of Northern India and the holy river of Hinduism. Ganges and Bhagirathi River are ganges basin, Rigvedic rivers, rivers of Uttarakhand and sacred rivers.
See Ganges and Bhagirathi River
Bhishma
Bhishma, also known as Pitamaha, Gangaputra, and Devavrata, was a prince and commander of ancient Indian Kuru kingdom and is a major character of the epic Mahabharata and the protagonist of the Bhishma Parva episode.
Bhola Sadar Upazila
Bhola Sadar (ভোলা সদর) is an upazila of Bhola District in Barisal Division, Bangladesh.
See Ganges and Bhola Sadar Upazila
Bhutan
Bhutan (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia situated in the Eastern Himalayas between China in the north and India in the south.
Bihar
Bihar is a state in Eastern India.
See Ganges and Bihar
Bijnor
Bijnor is a city and a municipal board in Bijnor district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Bikrampur
Bikrampur ("City of Courage") was a pargana situated south of Dhaka, the modern capital city of Bangladesh.
Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh
Bilaspur, also known as "The City of Festivals", is a city located in Bilaspur District in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
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Bithoor
Bithoor or Bithur is a town in Kanpur district, by road north of the centre of Kanpur city, in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Black pond turtle
The black pond turtle (Geoclemys hamiltonii), also known commonly as the spotted pond turtle and the Indian spotted turtle, is a species of freshwater turtle in the family Geoemydidae.
See Ganges and Black pond turtle
Bombax ceiba
Bombax ceiba, like other trees of the genus Bombax, is commonly known as cotton tree.
Brahma
Brahma (ब्रह्मा) is a Hindu god, referred to as "the Creator" within the Trimurti, the trinity of supreme divinity that includes Vishnu and Shiva.
Brahman
In Hinduism, Brahman (ब्रह्मन्; IAST: Brahman) connotes the highest universal principle, the Ultimate Reality of the universe.
Brahmaputra River
The Brahmaputra is a trans-boundary river which flows through Tibet (China), Northeastern India, and Bangladesh. Ganges and Brahmaputra River are Braided rivers in India, international rivers of Asia, rivers of Bangladesh and sacred rivers.
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Brahmin
Brahmin (brāhmaṇa) is a varna (caste) within Hindu society.
Brahminy river turtle
The brahminy river turtle or crowned river turtle (Hardella thurjii) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae.
See Ganges and Brahminy river turtle
Bronze featherback
The bronze featherback (Notopterus notopterus; কান্ধুলি kandhuli, ফলি,কাংলা,, ปลาสลาด, ปลาฉลาด, ปลาตอง, Vietnamese: Cá thát lát, ငါးဖယ်) is a ray-finned fish in the family Notopteridae found in South and Southeast Asia.
See Ganges and Bronze featherback
Brown roofed turtle
The brown roofed turtle (Pangshura smithii) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae.
See Ganges and Brown roofed turtle
Budge Budge
Budge Budge is a town and a municipality of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Burhi Gandak River
The Burhi Gandak River is a tributary of the Ganges. Ganges and Burhi Gandak River are rivers of Bihar.
See Ganges and Burhi Gandak River
Buxar
Buxar is a nagar parishad city in the state of Bihar, India, sharing border with Balia and Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh.
See Ganges and Buxar
Canal
Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi).
See Ganges and Canal
Capacity (law)
Legal capacity is a quality denoting either the legal aptitude of a person to have rights and liabilities (in this sense also called transaction capacity), or altogether the personhood itself in regard to an entity other than a natural person (in this sense also called legal personality).
Catfish
Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of ray-finned fish.
Catla
Catla (Labeo catla), (translit) also known as the major South Asian carp, is an economically important South Asian freshwater fish in the carp family Cyprinidae.
See Ganges and Catla
Chanakya
Chanakya (ISO:,; 375–283 BCE) was an ancient Indian polymath who was active as a teacher, author, strategist, philosopher, economist, jurist, and politician.
Chandan River
The Chandan River also known as Chanan River flows in the districts of Munger, Bhagalpur and Banka in the state of Bihar, and Deoghar in the state of Jharkhand,India. Ganges and Chandan River are rivers of Bihar.
Chandpur Sadar Upazila
Chandpur Sadar (চাঁদপুর সদর) is an upazila of the Chandpur District in the Division of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
See Ganges and Chandpur Sadar Upazila
Chandragupta Maurya
Chandragupta Maurya (350–295 BCE) was the Emperor of Magadha from 322 BC to 297 BC and founder of the Maurya dynasty which ruled over a geographically-extensive empire based in Magadha.
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Channel (geography)
In physical geography and hydrology, a channel is a landform on which a relatively narrow body of water is situated, such as a river, river delta or strait.
See Ganges and Channel (geography)
Chatra (umbrella)
The chatra (from छत्र, meaning "umbrella") is an auspicious symbol in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.
See Ganges and Chatra (umbrella)
Chhapra
Chhapra (ISO: Chaparā) is a city and headquarters of the Saran District in the Indian state of Bihar.
Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh is a landlocked state in Central India.
Chickenpox
Chickenpox, also known as varicella, is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease caused by the initial infection with varicella zoster virus (VZV), a member of the herpesvirus family.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
See Ganges and China
Chittagong Division
Chittagong Division, officially known as Chattogram Division, is geographically the largest of the eight administrative divisions of Bangladesh.
See Ganges and Chittagong Division
Chittor Fort
The Chittorgarh (literally Chittor Fort), also known as Chittod Fort, is one of the largest living forts in India.
Cho Oyu
Cho Oyu (Nepali: चोयु) is the sixth-highest mountain in the world at above sea level.
Cholera
Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.
Chota Nagpur Plateau
The Chota Nagpur Plateau is a plateau in eastern India, which covers much of Jharkhand state as well as adjacent parts of Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal and Bihar.
See Ganges and Chota Nagpur Plateau
Christopher de Bellaigue
Christopher de Bellaigue (born 1971 in London) is a journalist who has worked on the Middle East and South Asia since 1994.
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Chunar
Chunar is a city located in Mirzapur district of Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
Climax species
Climax species, also called late seral, late-successional, K-selected or equilibrium species, are plant species that can germinate and grow with limited resources; e.g., they need heat exposure or low water availability.
Clupeidae
Clupeidae is a family of clupeiform ray-finned fishes, comprising, for instance, the herrings and sprats.
Coastal reservoir
A Coastal reservoir is a type of reservoir to store fresh water in a dammed area of a coastal sea near a river delta.
See Ganges and Coastal reservoir
Confluence
In geography, a confluence (also: conflux) occurs where two or more watercourses join to form a single channel.
Congo River
The Congo River, formerly also known as the Zaire River, is the second-longest river in Africa, shorter only than the Nile, as well as the third-largest river in the world by discharge volume, following the Amazon and Ganges rivers. It is the world's deepest recorded river, with measured depths of around. Ganges and Congo River are border rivers.
Corruption
Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain.
Cremation
Cremation is a method of final disposition of a dead body through burning.
Critically Endangered
An IUCN Red List Critically Endangered (CR or sometimes CE) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.
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Crore
A crore (abbreviated cr) denotes ten million (10,000,000 or 107 in scientific notation) and is equal to 100 lakh in the Indian numbering system.
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Crow
A crow (pronounced) is a bird of the genus Corvus, or more broadly, a synonym for all of Corvus.
See Ganges and Crow
Cyprinidae
Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family, including the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives the barbs and barbels, among others.
Cypriniformes
Cypriniformes is an order of ray-finned fish, which includes many families and genera of cyprinid (carps and their kin) fish, such as barbs, gobies, loaches, botias, and minnows (among others).
Damodar River
Damodar River (Pron: /ˈdʌmoˌdaː/) is a river flowing across the Indian states of Jharkhand and West Bengal. Ganges and Damodar River are rivers of Jharkhand and rivers of West Bengal.
Debouch
In hydrology, a debouch (or debouche) is a place where runoff from a small, confined space discharges into a larger, broader body of water.
Delhi
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi (ISO: Rāṣṭrīya Rājadhānī Kṣētra Dillī), is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India.
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Devprayag
Devprayag (Deva prayāga) is a town and a nagar panchayat, near New Tehri city 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.
Dhaka
Dhaka (or; Ḍhākā), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
See Ganges and Dhaka
Dhaka Division
Dhaka Division (ঢাকা বিভাগ, Ḍhaka Bibhag) is an administrative division within Bangladesh.
Dhaulagiri
Dhaulagiri, located in Nepal, is the seventh highest mountain in the world at above sea level, and the highest mountain within the borders of a single country.
Dhauliganga River
The Dhauliganga is a turbulent Himalayan river which rises in the border regions of India and China and flows south into the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India. Ganges and Dhauliganga River are rivers of Uttarakhand.
See Ganges and Dhauliganga River
Dhruva
Dhruva (Sanskrit: ध्रुव,, lit. "unshakeable, immovable, or fixed") was an ascetic devotee of Vishnu mentioned in the Vishnu Purana and the Bhagavata Purana.
Diamond Harbour
Diamond Harbour is a town and a municipality of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Discharge (hydrology)
In hydrology, discharge is the volumetric flow rate (volume per time, in units of m3/h or ft3/h) of a stream.
See Ganges and Discharge (hydrology)
Distributary
A distributary, or a distributary channel, is a stream that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel, a phenomenon known as river bifurcation.
Doab
Doab is a term used in South Asia Quote: "Originally and chiefly in South Asia: (the name of) a strip or narrow tract of land between two rivers; spec.
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Drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.
Duabanga grandiflora
From its peculiar habit, Duabanga grandiflora (syn. D. sonneratioides) is a singular feature in its native forests.
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Duck
Duck is the common name for numerous species of waterfowl in the family Anatidae.
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Dudhwa National Park
Dudhwa National Park is a national park in the Terai belt of marshy grasslands in northern Uttar Pradesh, India.
See Ganges and Dudhwa National Park
Dysentery
Dysentery, historically known as the bloody flux, is a type of gastroenteritis that results in bloody diarrhea.
East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.
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Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough
Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, (8 September 1790 – 22 December 1871) was a British Tory politician.
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Ellora Caves
The Ellora Caves are a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Aurangabad district, Maharashtra, India (now renamed to Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar district).
Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
Environmental personhood
Environmental personhood or juridic personhood is a legal concept which designates certain environmental entities the status of a legal person.
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Environmental planning
Environmental planning is the process of facilitating decision making to carry out land development with the consideration given to the natural environment, social, political, economic and governance factors and provides a holistic framework to achieve sustainable outcomes.
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Etawah
Etawah (IAST: Iṭāvā), also known as Ishtikapuri, is a city on the banks of Yamuna River in the state of Western Uttar Pradesh in India.
Eurasian Plate
The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate that includes most of the continent of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Europe and Asia), with the notable exceptions of the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent and the area east of the Chersky Range in eastern Siberia.
Fair river sharing
Fair river sharing is a kind of a fair division problem in which the waters of a river has to be divided among countries located along the river. Ganges and fair river sharing are border rivers.
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Farakka
Farakka is a town, with a police station and a post office, not identified in 2011 census as a separate place, in the Farakka community development block in the Jangipur subdivision of Murshidabad district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Farakka Barrage
Farakka Barrage is a barrage across the Ganga river located in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal, roughly from the border with Bangladesh near sahibganj.
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Faridpur, Bangladesh
Faridpur is a city located in southern Bangladesh.
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Farrukhabad
Farrukhabad is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Fatehgarh
Fatehgarh is a cantonment town in Farrukhabad district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Fecal coliform
A fecal coliform (British: faecal coliform) is a facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped, gram-negative, non-sporulating bacterium.
Firuz Shah Tughlaq
Sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309 – 20 September 1388) was a Muslim ruler from the Tughlaq dynasty, who reigned over the Sultanate of Delhi from 1351 to 1388.
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Fish migration
Fish migration is mass relocation by fish from one area or body of water to another.
FishBase
FishBase is a global species database of fish species (specifically finfish).
Flood
A flood is an overflow of water (or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry.
See Ganges and Flood
Foreland basin
A foreland basin is a structural basin that develops adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt.
Four-horned antelope
The four-horned antelope (Tetracerus quadricornis), also called chousingha, is a small bovid antelope native to central, South and Western India, along with a smaller population in Nepal.
See Ganges and Four-horned antelope
Fowl
Fowl are birds belonging to one of two biological orders, namely the gamefowl or landfowl (Galliformes) and the waterfowl (Anseriformes).
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Gana
The word (Sanskrit: गण) in Sanskrit and Pali means "flock, troop, multitude, number, tribe, category, series, or class".
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Gandaki River
The Gandaki River, also known as the Narayani and Gandak, is one of the major rivers in Nepal and a left-bank tributary of the Ganges in India. Ganges and Gandaki River are Braided rivers in India, international rivers of Asia, rivers in Buddhism and rivers of Bihar.
Ganga (goddess)
Ganga (गङ्गा) is the personification of the river Ganges, who is worshipped by Hindus as the goddess of purification and forgiveness. Ganges and Ganga (goddess) are Rigvedic rivers.
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Ganga Lake (Mongolia)
Ganga Lake is a saltwater lake located in Dariganga sum, Sükhbaatar Province, Mongolia.
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Ganga Pushkaram
Ganga Pushkaram is a festival of River Ganga which normally occurs once in 12 years.
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Ganga Talao
Ganga Talao (commonly known as Grand Bassin) is a crater lake situated in a secluded mountain area in the district of Savanne, deep in the heart of Mauritius.
Gangaputra Brahmin
The Gangaputra Brahman are a Hindu Brahmin community, found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.
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Gangaridai
Gangaridai (Γαγγαρίδαι; Latin: Gangaridae) is a term used by the ancient Greco-Roman writers (1st century BCE-2nd century AD) to describe people or a geographical region of the ancient Indian subcontinent.
Ganges
The Ganges (in India: Ganga,; in Bangladesh: Padma). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river which goes through India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China." is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The -long river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Ganges and Ganges are Bangladesh–India border, border rivers, Braided rivers in India, environmental personhood, ganges basin, international rivers of Asia, national symbols of India, Rigvedic rivers, rivers in Buddhism, rivers of Bangladesh, rivers of Bihar, rivers of Delhi, rivers of Jharkhand, rivers of Uttar Pradesh, rivers of Uttarakhand, rivers of West Bengal and sacred rivers.
Ganges Barrage
The Ganges Barrage, officially named as the Lav Khush Barrage, this bridge across the Ganges river lies at Azad Nagar-Nawabganj in Kanpur.
Ganges Basin
The Ganges Basin is a major part of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin draining 1,999,000 square kilometres in Tibet, Nepal, India and Bangladesh. Ganges and Ganges Basin are ganges basin.
Ganges Canal
The Ganges Canal or Ganga Canal is a canal system that irrigates the Doab region between the Ganges River and the Yamuna River in India.
Ganges Delta
The Ganges Delta (also known the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, the Sundarbans Delta or the Bengal Delta) is a river delta in Eastern South Asia predominantly covering the Bengal region of the subcontinent, consisting of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. Ganges and Ganges Delta are ganges basin.
Ganges river dolphin
The Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) is a species of freshwater dolphin classified in the family Platanistidae. Ganges and ganges river dolphin are national symbols of India.
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Ganges shark
The Ganges shark (Glyphis gangeticus) is a critically endangered species of requiem shark found in the Ganges River (Padma River) and the Brahmaputra River of India and Bangladesh.
Ganges water dispute
A long-standing dispute exists between India and Bangladesh over the appropriate allocation, and development, of the water resources of the Ganges River, which flows from northern India into Bangladesh. Ganges and Ganges water dispute are rivers of Bangladesh.
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Gangotri
Gangotri is a town and a Nagar Panchayat (municipality) in Uttarkashi district in the state of Uttarakhand, India.
Gangotri Glacier
Gangotri glacier (Sanskrit and गंगोत्री) is located in Uttarkashi District, Uttarakhand, India in a region bordering Tibet.
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Gastrointestinal disease
Gastrointestinal diseases (abbrev. GI diseases or GI illnesses) refer to diseases involving the gastrointestinal tract, namely the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and rectum; and the accessory organs of digestion, the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas.
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Gastrointestinal tract
The gastrointestinal tract (GI tract, digestive tract, alimentary canal) is the tract or passageway of the digestive system that leads from the mouth to the anus. The GI tract contains all the major organs of the digestive system, in humans and other animals, including the esophagus, stomach, and intestines.
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Gaur
The gaur (Bos gaurus) is a bovine native to South Asia and Southeast Asia, and has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1986.
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Gautama Maharishi
Gautama Maharishi (महर्षिः गौतम), was a sage in Hinduism, who is also mentioned in Jainism and Buddhism.
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Gazipur
Gazipur (গাজীপুর) is a city in central Bangladesh.
George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland
George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, (25 August 1784 – 1 January 1849) was an English Whig politician and colonial administrator.
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Ghaghara
The Ghaghara River, also known as the Karnali River in Nepal, Mapcha Tsangpo in Tibet, and the lower Ghaghara in Awadh is known as the Sarayu River, is a perennial trans-boundary river that originates in the northern slopes of the Himalayas in the Tibetan Plateau, cuts through the Himalayas in Nepal and joins the Sharda River at Brahmaghat in India. Ganges and Ghaghara are Braided rivers in India, international rivers of Asia, rivers in Buddhism and rivers of Uttar Pradesh.
Gharial
The gharial (Gavialis gangeticus), also known as gavial or fish-eating crocodile, is a crocodilian in the family Gavialidae and among the longest of all living crocodilians.
Ghat
Ghat, a term used in the Indian subcontinent, refer to the series of steps leading down to a body of water or wharf, such as a bathing or cremation place along the banks of a river or pond, the Ghats in Varanasi, Dhobi Ghat or the Aapravasi Ghat. Ganges and Ghat are sacred rivers.
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Ghats in Varanasi
Ghats in Varanasi are riverfront steps leading to the banks of the Ganges river.
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Ghazipur
Ghazipur is a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Glyptothorax
Glyptothorax is a genus of catfishes order Siluriformes of the family Sisoridae.
Godavari River
The Godavari (ɡod̪aːʋəɾiː) is India's second longest river after the Ganga River and drains the third largest basin in India, covering about 10% of India's total geographical area. Its source is in Trimbakeshwar, Nashik, Maharashtra. It flows east for, draining the states of Maharashtra (48.6%), Telangana (18.8%), Andhra Pradesh (4.5%), Chhattisgarh (10.9%) and Odisha (5.7%). Ganges and Godavari River are rivers in Buddhism and sacred rivers.
Golden jackal
The golden jackal (Canis aureus), also called the common jackal, is a wolf-like canid that is native to Eurasia.
Gomti River
The Gomti, Gumti or Gomati River is a tributary of the Ganges. Ganges and Gomti River are rivers in Buddhism, rivers of Uttar Pradesh and sacred rivers.
Gomukh
Gomukh, also known as "Gaumukh" or "Gomukhi" (Hindi: गौमुख or गौमुखी; Assamese and Bengali: গোমুখ or গোমুখী), is the terminus or snout of the Gangotri Glacier and the source of the Bhagirathi River, one of the primary headstreams of the Ganga River.
Gondwana
Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.
Governor-General of India
The governor-general of India (1833 to 1950, from 1858 to 1947 the viceroy and governor-general of India, commonly shortened to viceroy of India) was the representative of the monarch of the United Kingdom in their capacity as the Emperor/Empress of India and after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the Monarch of India.
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Great Indian bustard
The great Indian bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) or Indian bustard is a bustard occurring on the Indian subcontinent.
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Gupta Empire
The Gupta Empire was an ancient Indian empire on the Indian subcontinent which existed from the mid 3rd century CE to mid 6th century CE.
Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty
The Pratihara dynasty, also called the Gurjara-Pratiharas, the Pratiharas of Kannauj and the Imperial Pratiharas, was a medieval Indian dynasty that ruled parts of Northern India from the mid-8th to the 11th century.
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Hajipur
Hajipur is the headquarters and largest city of Vaishali district of the state of Bihar in India.
Haldia
Haldia is an industrial port city in Purba Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Hardinge Bridge
Hardinge Bridge is a steel railway truss bridge over the Padma River located at Ishwardi, Pabna and Bheramara, and Kushtia in Bangladesh.
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Hardoi
Hardoi is a city and municipal board in Hardoi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Haridwar
Haridwar (formerly Mayapuri) is a city and municipal corporation in the Haridwar district of Uttarakhand, India.
Haridwar district
Haridwar district also spelled as Hardwar is part of Uttarakhand, India.It lies in doab region where people speak khari boli.
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Headworks
Headworks is a civil engineering term for any structure at the head or diversion point of a waterway.
Heaven
Heaven, or the heavens, is a common religious cosmological or transcendent supernatural place where beings such as deities, angels, souls, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or reside.
Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge
Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, (30 March 1785 – 24 September 1856) was a British Army officer and politician.
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Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A is an infectious disease of the liver caused by Hepatovirus A (HAV); it is a type of viral hepatitis.
Heritiera fomes
Heritiera fomes is a species of mangrove tree in the family Malvaceae.
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Hillstream loach
The hillstream loaches or river loaches are a family, the Balitoridae, of small fish from South, Southeast and East Asia.
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Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh ("Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a state in the northern part of India.
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Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya.
Hindu calendar
The Hindu calendar, also called Panchanga, is one of various lunisolar calendars that are traditionally used in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, with further regional variations for social and Hindu religious purposes.
Hindu mythology
Hindu mythology is the body of myths attributed to, and espoused by, the adherents of the Hindu religion, found in Hindu texts such as the Vedas, the itihasa (the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana) the Puranas, and mythological stories specific to a particular ethnolinguistic group like the Tamil Periya Puranam and ''Divya Prabandham'', and the Mangal Kavya of Bengal.
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Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Hindus
Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.
Hooghly River
The Hooghly River (Anglicized alternatively spelt as Hoogli or Hugli) or popularly called Ganga or Kati-Ganga in the Puranas, is a river that rises close to Giria, which lies north of Baharampur and Palashi in Murshidabad. Ganges and Hooghly River are rivers of West Bengal and sacred rivers.
Howrah
Howrah (alternatively pronounced as Haora) is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Hugli-Chuchura
Hugli-Chuchura, also known by its former names Chinsurah or Hooghly-Chinsurah, is a city of Hooghly district and the district headquarters of Hooghly division in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Hydroelectricity
Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).
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Hydrology
Hydrology is the scientific study of the movement, distribution, and management of water on Earth and other planets, including the water cycle, water resources, and drainage basin sustainability.
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
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Indian black turtle
The Indian black turtle (Melanochelys trijuga) or Indian pond terrapin is a species of medium-sized freshwater turtle found in South Asia.
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Indian Council of Medical Research
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the apex body in India for the formulation, coordination and promotion of biomedical research, is one of the oldest and largest medical research bodies in the world.
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Indian eyed turtle
The Indian eyed turtle (Morenia petersi) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae.
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Indian flapshell turtle
The Indian flapshell turtle (Lissemys punctata) is a freshwater species of turtle found in South Asia.
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Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle
The Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle (Chitra indica), also known as the small-headed softshell turtle or the Indo-Gangetic softshell turtle, is an endangered species of softshell turtle native to waterways and rivers of the Indian subcontinent.
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Indian peacock softshell turtle
Indian peacock softshell turtle (Nilssonia hurum) is a species of turtle found in South Asia and is listed on the IUCN Red List as a vulnerable species.
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Indian Plate
The Indian Plate (or India Plate) is a minor tectonic plate straddling the equator in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Indian rhinoceros
The Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), also known as the greater one-horned rhinoceros, great Indian rhinoceros, or Indian rhino for short, is a rhinoceros species native to the Indian subcontinent.
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Indian rituals after death
Hindu rituals after death, including Vedic rituals after death, are ceremonial rituals in Hinduism, one of the samskaras (rite of passage) based on Vedas and other Hindu texts, performed after the death of a human being for their moksha and consequent ascendance to Svarga (heaven).
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Indian roofed turtle
The Indian roofed turtle (Pangshura tecta) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae.
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Indian rupee
The Indian rupee (symbol: ₹; code: INR) is the official currency in India.
Indian softshell turtle
The Indian softshell turtle (Nilssonia gangetica), or Ganges softshell turtle is a species of softshell turtle found in South Asia in rivers such as the Ganges, Indus and Mahanadi.
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Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.
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Indian tent turtle
The Indian tent turtle (Pangshura tentoria) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae.
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Indian wolf
The Indian wolf (Canis lupus pallipes) is a subspecies of gray wolf that ranges from Southwest Asia to the Indian subcontinent.
Indica (Megasthenes)
Indika (Greek: Ἰνδικά; Latin: Indica) is an account of Mauryan India by the Greek writer Megasthenes.
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Indo-Australian Plate
The Indo-Australian Plate is a major tectonic plate that includes the continent of Australia and the surrounding ocean and extends north-west to include the Indian subcontinent and the adjacent waters.
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Indo-Gangetic Plain
The Indo-Gangetic Plain, also known as the North Indian River Plain, is a fertile plain encompassing northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, including most of modern-day northern and eastern India, most of eastern-Pakistan, virtually all of Bangladesh and southern plains of Nepal.
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Indra
Indra (इन्द्र) is the king of the devas and Svarga in Hinduism.
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Indus River
The Indus is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia. Ganges and Indus River are international rivers of Asia, Rigvedic rivers, rivers in Buddhism and sacred rivers.
Indus river dolphin
The Indus river dolphin (Platanista minor) is a species of freshwater dolphin in the family Platanistidae.
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations.
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International Rice Research Institute
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is an international agricultural research and training organization with its headquarters in Los Baños, Laguna, in the Philippines, and offices in seventeen countries.
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Introduced species
An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, and either deliberately or accidentally.
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Invasive species
An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment.
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Ishwardi Upazila
Ishwardi (ঈশ্বরদী, Ish-shordi) is an upazila of Pabna District in Rajshahi Division.
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J. M. W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist.
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James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie
James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (22 April 1812 – 19 December 1860), known as the Earl of Dalhousie between 1838 and 1849, was a Scottish statesman and colonial administrator in British India.
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James Thomason
James Thomason (3 May 1804 – 17 September 1853) was a British administrator of the East India Company and Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces between 1843 and 1853.
Jamuna River (Bangladesh)
The Jamuna River (yamunā Jomuna) is one of the three main rivers of Bangladesh. Ganges and Jamuna River (Bangladesh) are rivers of Bangladesh.
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Jharkhand
Jharkhand is a state in eastern India.
Jim Corbett National Park
Jim Corbett National Park is a national park in India located in the Nainital district of Uttarakhand state.
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John Russell Colvin
John Russell Colvin (29 May 1807 – 9 September 1857) was a British administrator of the East India Company, and Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces from 1853 until his death from cholera during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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Jyeshtha (month)
Jyeshtha or Jyēṣṭha (ज्येष्ठ; जेठ jēṭ; জেঠ zeth; ଜ୍ୟେଷ୍ଠ Jyeṣṭha) is a month of the Hindu calendar.
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Kahalgaon
Kahalgaon (formerly known as Colgong during British rule) is a municipality Town and one of 3 sub-divisions of Bhagalpur district in the state of Bihar, India.
Kaimur Range
Kaimur Range (also spelt Kymore) is the eastern portion of the Vindhya Range, about long, extending from around Katangi in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh to around Sasaram in Rohtas district of Bihar.
Kamandalu
Kamandalu (Sanskrit: कमण्डलु), kamandal, or kamandalam is an oblong water pot, originating from the Indian subcontinent, made of a dry gourd (pumpkin) or coconut shell, metal, wood of the Kamandalataru tree, or from clay, usually with a handle and sometimes with a spout.
Kamet
Kamet (कामेत) is the second-highest mountain in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India, after Nanda Devi.
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Kampilya
Kampilya was the capital of the Panchala Kingdom, which was a mahajanapada mentioned in the Mahabharata.
Kangchenjunga
Kangchenjunga, also spelled Kanchenjunga, Kanchanjanghā and Khangchendzonga, is the third-highest mountain in the world.
Kannauj
Kannauj (Hindustani pronunciation: kənːɔːd͡ʒ) is an ancient city, administrative headquarters and a municipal board or Nagar Palika Parishad in Kannauj district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Kanpur
Kanpur, formerly anglicized as Cawnpore, is a large industrial city located in the central-western part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Kara, Uttar Pradesh
Kara is an old township situated near Sirathu, on the banks of river Ganges, west of the city of Prayagraj in Kaushambi district in Uttar Pradesh state in India.
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Karmanasa River
The Karamnasa or Karmanasa River (कर्मनाशा नदी) is a tributary of the Ganges. Ganges and Karmanasa River are rivers of Bihar and rivers of Uttar Pradesh.
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Karnaprayag
Karnaprayag is a town and municipal board in the Chamoli District in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
Kartikeya
Kartikeya, also known as Skanda, Subrahmanya, Shanmukha and Murugan, is the Hindu god of war.
Kasganj
Kasganj is a city or nagar and the district headquarters of Kasganj district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Katihar
Katihar is a city situated in the eastern part of the state of Bihar in India.
Katwa
Katwa is a sub-divisional town and railway junction in Purba Bardhaman district of the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Khagaria
Khagaria is a town in Indian state of Bihar and the administrative headquarters of Khagaria district.
Kharod
Kharod is a town and a nagar panchayat in Janjgir-Champa district in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
Kite (bird)
Kite is the common name for certain birds of prey in the family Accipitridae, particularly in subfamilies Milvinae, Elaninae, and Perninae.
Kiul River
The Kiul River (किऊल नदी) is a tributary of the Ganges. Ganges and Kiul River are rivers of Bihar and rivers of Jharkhand.
Kolkata
Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.
Kosi River
The Kosi or Koshi is a transboundary river which flows through China, Nepal and India. Ganges and Kosi River are Braided rivers in India, international rivers of Asia and rivers of Bihar.
Kumbh Mela
Kumbh Mela or Kumbha Mela is a major pilgrimage and festival in Hinduism, On February 4, 2019, Kumbh Mela witnessed the largest public gathering.
Kumbha
A kumbha (कुम्भ) is a type of pottery in India.
Kurma
Kurma (lit), is the second avatar of the Hindu preserver deity, Vishnu.
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Lakh
A lakh (abbreviated L; sometimes written lac) is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand (100,000; scientific notation: 105).
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Lakshmi
Lakshmi (sometimes spelled Laxmi) also known as Shri, is one of the principal goddesses in Hinduism.
Langalbandh
Langalbandh (লাঙ্গলবন্দ, literally, the place where the plough stopped), is a holy Hindu pilgrimage site located on the banks of the Brahmaputra River in Narayanganj District of Bangladesh.
Large Indian civet
The large Indian civet (Viverra zibetha) is a viverrid native to South and Southeast Asia.
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Lentil
The lentil (Vicia lens or Lens culinaris) is an edible legume.
Leprosy
Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease (HD), is a long-term infection by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae or Mycobacterium lepromatosis.
Lesser florican
The lesser florican (Sypheotides indicus), also known as the likh or kharmore, is the smallest in the bustard family and the only member of the genus Sypheotides.
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L. Landon's writings are emblematic of the transition from Romanticism to Victorian literature.
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Lhotse
Lhotse (L'hōtsē; South Peak) is the fourth-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest, K2, and Kangchenjunga.
Life (magazine)
Life is an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, a monthly from 1978 until 2000, and an online supplement since 2008.
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List of emperors of the Mughal Empire
The emperors of the Mughal Empire, styled the Emperors of Hindustan, who were all members of the Timurid dynasty (House of Babur), ruled over the empire from its inception in 1526 to its dissolution in 1857.
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List of national animals
This is a list of countries that have officially designated one or more animals as their national animals.
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List of river systems by length
This is a list of the longest rivers on Earth.
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List of rivers by discharge
This article lists rivers by their average discharge measured in descending order of their water flow rate.
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List of rivers of India
This is a list of rivers of India, starting in the west and moving along the Indian coast southward, then northward.
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Lombardy
Lombardy (Lombardia; Lombardia) is an administrative region of Italy that covers; it is located in northern Italy and has a population of about 10 million people, constituting more than one-sixth of Italy's population.
Lucknow
Lucknow is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division.
Lunar phase
A lunar phase or Moon phase is the apparent shape of the Moon's directly sunlit portion as viewed from the Earth (because the Moon is tidally locked with the Earth, the same hemisphere is always facing the Earth).
Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.
Mahananda River
The Mahananda is a trans-boundary river that flows through the Indian states of Bihar and West Bengal before crossing into Bangladesh. Ganges and Mahananda River are international rivers of Asia, rivers of Bangladesh, rivers of Bihar and rivers of West Bengal.
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Maharashtra
Maharashtra (ISO: Mahārāṣṭra) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau.
Mahaweli River
The Mahaweli River (මහවැලි ගඟ, literally "Great Sandy River"; மகாவலி ஆறு), is a long river, ranking as the longest river in Sri Lanka.
Main stem
In hydrology, a mainstem (or trunk) is "the primary downstream segment of a river, as contrasted to its tributaries".
Makalu
Makalu (Makālu himāl) is the fifth-highest mountain on Earth, with a summit at an elevation of AMSL.
Makara
Makara (translit) is a legendary sea-creature in Hindu mythology.
Malda, West Bengal
Malda, also known as English Bazar, is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Mammal
A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.
Manaslu
Manaslu (मनास्लु, also known as Kutang) is the eighth-highest mountain in the world at above sea level.
Mandakini River
The Mandakini River is a tributary of the Alaknanda River in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Ganges and Mandakini River are rivers in Buddhism and rivers of Uttarakhand.
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Maurya Empire
The Maurya Empire (Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀫𑀸𑀕𑀥𑁂, Māgadhe) was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in South Asia based in Magadha (present day Bihar).
Megasthenes
Megasthenes (Μεγασθένης, died 290 BCE) was an ancient Greek historian, diplomat, ethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period.
Meghna River
The Meghna (Mēghanā Nadī) is one of the major rivers in Bangladesh, one of the three that form the Ganges Delta, the largest delta on earth, which fans out to the Bay of Bengal. Ganges and Meghna River are ganges basin and rivers of Bangladesh.
Melā
Mela (मेला) is a Sanskrit word meaning "gathering" or "to meet" or a "fair".
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Milkfish
The milkfish (Chanos chanos) is a widespread species of ray-finned fish found throughout the Indo-Pacific.
Milky Way
The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.
Mirzapur
Mirzapur is a city in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Mokama
Mokama is a town and a municipal council of Patna district in the Indian state of Bihar.
Monsoon of South Asia
The Monsoon of South Asia is among several geographically distributed global monsoons.
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Mount Everest
Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.
Mount Kailash
Mount Kailash (also Kailasa; Kangrinboqê or Gang Rinpoche; གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ;; कैलास) is a mountain in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
Mount Meru
Mount Meru (Sanskrit/Pali: मेरु), also known as Sumeru, Sineru, or Mahāmeru, is the sacred five-peaked mountain of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology and is considered to be the centre of all the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual universes.
Mugger crocodile
The mugger crocodile (Crocodylus palustris) is a medium-sized broad-snouted crocodile, also known as mugger and marsh crocodile.
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Munger
Munger, formerly spelt as Monghyr, is a twin city and a Municipal Corporation situated in the Indian state of Bihar.
Munshiganj Sadar Upazila
Munshiganj Sadar (মুন্সীগঞ্জ সদর) is an upazila of Munshiganj District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Murshidabad
Murshidabad is a historical city in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Mymensingh
Mymensingh (ময়মনসিংহ) is a metropolitan city and capital of Mymensingh Division, Bangladesh.
Myna
The mynas (also spelled mynah) are a group of birds in the starling family (Sturnidae).
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Nabadwip
Nabadwip, also spelt Navadwip, anciently Nadia or Nudiya, is a heritage city in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Names for India
The Republic of India has two principal official short names, each of which is historically significant, India and Bharat.
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Nanda Devi
Nanda Devi is the second-highest mountain in India, after Kangchenjunga, and the highest located entirely within the country. Ganges and Nanda Devi are national symbols of India.
Nandakini
Nandakini is a glacial fed river that originates on the western edge of the Nanda Ghunti peak.
Nandaprayag
Nandaprayag is a town and a nagar panchayat in Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
Nandi (Hinduism)
Nandi (नन्दि), also known as Nandikeshvara or Nandideva, is the bull vahana (mount) of the Hindu god Shiva.
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Naraka (Hinduism)
Naraka (नरक), also called Yamaloka, is the Hindu equivalent of Hell, where sinners are tormented after death.
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Narayanganj
Narayanganj (translit) is a city in central Bangladesh in the Greater Dhaka area.
Narora
Narora (pronounced Naraura) is a town located on the banks of river Ganga, in tehsil Dibai, district Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Nashik
Nashik, Marathi: naːʃik, formerly Nasik) is a city in the northern region of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
National Ganga River Basin Authority
National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) is a financing, planning, implementing, monitoring and coordinating authority for the Ganges River, functioning under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, of India.
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.
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National Museum of India
The National Museum in New Delhi, also known as the National Museum of India, is one of the largest museums in India.
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National Waterway 1
The National Waterway 1 (NW-1) or Ganga-Bhagirathi-Hooghly river system is located in India and runs from Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh to Haldia in West Bengal via Patna and Bhagalpur in Bihar across the Ganges river.
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Nemacheilus
Nemacheilus is a genus of stone loaches native to Asia.
Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.
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Noakhali Sadar Upazila
Noakhali Sadar (নোয়াখালি সদর) is an upazila of Noakhali District in the Division of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
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North India
North India, also called Northern India, is a geographical and broad cultural region comprising the northern part of India (or historically, the Indian subcontinent) wherein Indo-Aryans form the prominent majority population.
North-Western Provinces
The North-Western Provinces was an administrative region in British India.
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Northern river terrapin
The northern river terrapin (Batagur baska) is a species of riverine turtle native to Southeast Asia.
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NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
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Overfishing
Overfishing is the removal of a species of fish (i.e. fishing) from a body of water at a rate greater than that the species can replenish its population naturally (i.e. the overexploitation of the fishery's existing fish stock), resulting in the species becoming increasingly underpopulated in that area.
Pabna
Pabna (পাবনা) is a city of Pabna District, Bangladesh and the administrative capital of the eponymous Pabna District.
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Padma River
The Padma (Padmā ''Pôdma'') is a major river in Bangladesh. Ganges and Padma River are border rivers, international rivers of Asia, rivers of Bangladesh and rivers of West Bengal.
Palashi
Palashi or Plassey) is a town on the east bank of Bhagirathi River, located approximately 50 kilometres north of the city of Krishnanagar in Kaliganj CD Block in the Nadia District of West Bengal, India. It is particularly well known due to the Battle of Plassey fought there in June 1757, between the private army of the British East India Company and the army of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal.
Panch Prayag
Panch Prayag (Pañcha prayāga) is an expression in Hindu religious ethos, specifically used to connote the five sacred river confluences in the Garhwal Himalayas in the state of Uttarakhand, India.
Pangasius pangasius
Pangasius pangasius, the Pangas catfish, is a species of shark catfish native to fresh and brackish waters of Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, and Pakistan.
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Pangsha Upazila
Pangsha (পাংশা) is an upazila of Rajbari District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Partridge
A partridge is a medium-sized galliform bird in any of several genera, with a wide native distribution throughout parts of Europe, Asia and Africa.
Parvati
Parvati (पार्वती), also known as Uma (उमा) and Gauri (गौरी), is the Hindu goddess of power, energy, nourishment, harmony, love, beauty, devotion, and motherhood.
Patala
In Indian religions, Patala (Sanskrit: पाताल, IAST: pātāla, lit. that which is below the feet), denotes the subterranean realms of the universe – which are located under the earthly dimension.
Pataliputra
Pataliputra (IAST), adjacent to modern-day Patna, Bihar, was a city in ancient India, originally built by Magadha ruler Ajatashatru in 490 BCE, as a small fort near the Ganges river.
Patna
Patna, historically known as Pataliputra, is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Patna had a population of 2.35 million, making it the 19th largest city in India. Covering and over 2.5 million people, its urban agglomeration is the 15th largest in India.
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Peninsular River System
The Peninsular River System is an Indian River System.
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Pennsylvania Canal
The Pennsylvania Canal, sometimes known as the Pennsylvania Canal system, was a complex system of transportation infrastructure improvements, including canals, dams, locks, tow paths, aqueducts, and viaducts.
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Perciformes
Perciformes, also called the Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish in the clade Percomorpha.
Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use
The Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN) is an independent inter-departmental body in the United Kingdom established in 1919.
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Phalgu River
The Phalgu or Falgu, a river that flows past Gaya, India in the Indian state of Bihar, is a sacred river for Hindus and Buddhists. Ganges and Phalgu River are rivers in Buddhism and rivers of Bihar.
Pilgrimage
A pilgrimage is a journey to a holy place, which can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life.
Pinda (riceball)
Piṇḍas are balls of cooked rice mixed with ghee and black sesame seeds offered to ancestors during Hindu funeral rites (Antyesti) and ancestor worship (Śrāddha).
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Pindar River
The Pindar River is a river located in Uttarakhand, India. Ganges and Pindar River are rivers of Uttarakhand.
Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.
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PLOS One
PLOS One (stylized PLOS ONE, and formerly PLoS ONE) is a peer-reviewed open access mega journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) since 2006.
Pole star
A pole star is a visible star that is approximately aligned with the axis of rotation of an astronomical body; that is, a star whose apparent position is close to one of the celestial poles.
Pollution of the Ganges
The ongoing pollution of the Ganges, the largest river in the Indian subcontinent, poses a significant threat to human health and the environment.
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Port of Kolkata
Port of Kolkata or Kolkata Port (Bengali: কলকাতা বন্দর), officially known as Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port (formerly Kolkata Port Trust or Port of Calcutta), is the only riverine major port in India, in the city of Kolkata, West Bengal, around from the sea.
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Prayagraj
Prayagraj (ISO), also known as Allahabad or Ilahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Presidencies and provinces of British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.
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Prithvi
Prithvi (Sanskrit: पृथ्वी,, also पृथिवी,, "the Vast One"), also rendered Pṛthvī Mātā, is the Sanskrit name for the earth, as well as the name of a devi (goddess) in Hinduism of the earth and some branches of Buddhism.
Proby Cautley
Sir Proby Thomas Cautley, KCB (3 January 1802 – 25 January 1871), English engineer and palaeontologist, born in Stratford St Mary, Suffolk, is best known for conceiving and supervising the construction of the Ganges canal during East India Company rule in India.
Psittacula
Psittacula, also known as Afro-Asian ring-necked parrots, is a genus of parrots from Africa and Southeast Asia.
Punjab, India
Punjab (Also and other variants) is a state in northwestern India.
Punpun
Punpun is a satellite town in the Patna Metropolitan Region, Patna district, in the Indian state of Bihar.
Punpun River
The Punpun River is a tributary of the Ganges. Ganges and Punpun River are rivers of Bihar and rivers of Jharkhand.
Puranas
Puranas (पुराण||ancient, old (1995 Edition), Article on Puranas,, page 915) are a vast genre of Hindu literature about a wide range of topics, particularly about legends and other traditional lore.
Rafting
Rafting and whitewater rafting are recreational outdoor activities which use an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other body of water.
Rajaji National Park
Rajaji National Park is a national park and tiger reserve in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
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Rajasthan
Rajasthan (lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northwestern India.
Rajiv Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) was an Indian politician who served as the Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989.
Rajmahal
Rajmahal is a subdivisional town and a notified area in Rajmahal subdivision of the Sahebganj district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.
Rajshahi
Rajshahi (রাজশাহী) is a metropolitan city and a major urban, administrative, commercial and educational centre of Bangladesh.
Rajshahi Division
Rajshahi Division (রাজশাহী বিভাগ) is one of the eight first-level administrative divisions of Bangladesh.
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Ramayana
The Ramayana (translit-std), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata.
Ramganga
Ramganga is a tributary of the river Ganges, originating in Uttarakhand state, India. Ganges and Ramganga are rivers of Uttar Pradesh and rivers of Uttarakhand.
Red fox
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the largest of the true foxes and one of the most widely distributed members of the order Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere including most of North America, Europe and Asia, plus parts of North Africa.
Red-crowned roofed turtle
The red-crowned roofed turtle or Bengal roof turtle (Batagur kachuga) is a species of freshwater turtle endemic to South Asia.
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Reptile
Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.
Rishikesh
Rishikesh, also spelt as Hrishikesh, is a city near Dehradun in the Indian state Uttarakhand.
Ritual purification
Ritual purification is a ritual prescribed by a religion through which a person is considered to be freed of uncleanliness, especially prior to the worship of a deity, and ritual purity is a state of ritual cleanliness.
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River bank erosion along the Ganges in Malda and Murshidabad districts
River bank erosion along the Ganges in Malda and Murshidabad districts focusses on river bank erosion along the main channel of the Ganges in Malda and Mushidabad districts of West Bengal, India.
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River bifurcation
River bifurcation (from furca, fork) occurs when a river (a bifurcating river) flowing in a single channel separates into two or more separate streams (called ''distributaries'') which then continue downstream.
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River dolphin
River dolphins are a polyphyletic group of fully aquatic mammals that reside exclusively in freshwater or brackish water.
River source
The headwater of a river or stream is the farthest point on each of its tributaries upstream from its mouth/estuary into a lake/sea or its confluence with another river.
Rohu
The rohu, rui, ruhi or roho labeo (Labeo rohita) is a species of fish of the carp family, found in rivers in South Asia.
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Rudraprayag
Rudraprayag is a city and a municipality in Rudraprayag district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
Rupee
Rupee is the common name for the currencies of India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Seychelles, and Sri Lanka, and of former currencies of Afghanistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates (as the Gulf rupee), British East Africa, Burma, German East Africa (as Rupie/Rupien), and Tibet.
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Rupnarayan River
The Rupnarayan is a river in India. Ganges and Rupnarayan River are rivers of West Bengal.
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Sacred waters
Sacred waters are sacred natural sites characterized by tangible topographical land formations such as rivers, lakes, springs, reservoirs, and oceans, as opposed to holy water which is water elevated with the sacramental blessing of a cleric.
Sadhu
Sadhu (साधु, IAST: (male), sādhvī or sādhvīne (female)), also spelled saddhu, is a religious ascetic, mendicant or any holy person in Hinduism and Jainism who has renounced the worldly life.
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Sagar Island
Sagar Island is an island in the Ganges delta, lying on the continental shelf of Bay of Bengal about 100 km (54 nautical miles) south of Kolkata.
Sagara (Hinduism)
Sagara is a mythological king of the Suryavamsha dynasty in Hinduism.
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Sahebganj
Sahebganj (also known as Sahibganj) is a scenic town and a port city in the Sahibganj subdivision of the Sahebganj district of Jharkhand state, India.
Saltwater crocodile
The saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) is a crocodilian native to saltwater habitats, brackish wetlands and freshwater rivers from India's east coast across Southeast Asia and the Sundaic region to northern Australia and Micronesia.
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Sanctum sanctorum
The Latin phrase sanctum sanctorum is a translation of the Hebrew term קֹדֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁים (Qṓḏeš HaQŏḏāšîm), literally meaning Holy of Holies, which generally refers in Latin texts to the holiest place of the Ancient Israelites, inside the Tabernacle and later inside the Temple in Jerusalem, but the term also has some derivative use in application to imitations of the Tabernacle in church architecture.
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Sankat Mochan Foundation
Sankat Mochan Foundation (SMF) is a non-governmental organization devoted to cleaning the pollution of the Ganges and protecting the Ganges river in India.
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Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
Saraswati
Saraswati (सरस्वती), also spelled as Sarasvati, is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, flowing water, abundance and wealth, art, speech, wisdom, and learning.
Schilbeidae
Schilbeidae is a family of catfishes native to Africa and Asia.
Schizothorax
Schizothorax is a genus of cyprinid fish found in southern and western China, through northern South Asia (Himalaya) and Central Asia, to Iran, with a single species, S. prophylax, in Turkey.
Seral community
A seral community is an intermediate stage found in ecological succession in an ecosystem advancing towards its climax community.
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Serampore
Serampore (also called Serampur, Srirampur, Srirampore, Shreerampur, Shreerampore, Shrirampur or Shrirampore) is a city in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Shah Jahan
Mirza Shahab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram (5 January 1592 – 22 January 1666), also known as Shah Jahan I, was the fifth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1628 until 1658.
Shakti
Shakti (Devanagari: शक्ति, IAST: Śakti; 'energy, ability, strength, effort, power, might, capability') in Hinduism, is the "Universal Power" that underlies and sustains all existence.
Shantanu
Shantanu (शांतनु, शान्तनु) was the King of Kuru Kingdom with his capital at Hastinapura, in the epic Mahabharata.
Shantipur
Santipur is a city and a municipality in the Ranaghat subdivision of Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Shishapangma
Shishapangma, or Shishasbangma or Xixiabangma, is the 14th-highest mountain in the world, at above sea level.
Shiva
Shiva (lit), also known as Mahadeva (Category:Trimurti Category:Wisdom gods Category:Time and fate gods Category:Indian yogis.
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Shmashana
A shmashana outside an Indian village A shmashana is a Hindu crematory ground, where dead bodies are brought to be burnt on a pyre.
Shorea robusta
Shorea robusta, the sal tree, sāla, shala, sakhua, or sarai, is a species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae.
Siltation
Siltation is water pollution caused by particulate terrestrial clastic material, with a particle size dominated by silt or clay.
Simaria
Simaria is an Indian village on the Ganges river.
Sisoridae
Sisoridae is a family of catfishes.
Skanda Purana
The Skanda Purana (IAST: Skanda Purāṇa) is the largest Mukhyapurana, a genre of eighteen Hindu religious texts.
Sloth bear
The sloth bear (Melursus ursinus), also known as the Indian bear, is a myrmecophagous bear species native to the Indian subcontinent.
Smooth-coated otter
The smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) is a freshwater otter species from regions of South and Southwest Asia, with the majority of its numbers found in Southeast Asia.
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Snakehead (fish)
The snakeheads are members of the freshwater perciform fish family Channidae, native to parts of Africa and Asia.
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Snipe
A snipe is any of about 26 wading bird species in three genera in the family Scolopacidae.
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Soma (drink)
In the Vedic tradition, soma (sóma) is a ritual drink of importance among the early Vedic Indo-Aryans.
Sonargaon
Sonargaon (সোনারগাঁও; pronounced in Bengali as Show-naar-gaa; lit. Golden Hamlet) is a historic city in central Bangladesh.
Sone River
Sone River, also spelt Son River, is a perennial river located in central India. Ganges and Sone River are rivers of Bihar, rivers of Jharkhand and rivers of Uttar Pradesh.
South Asian river dolphin
South Asian river dolphins are toothed whales in the genus Platanista, which inhabit the waterways of the Indian subcontinent.
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Stadion (unit)
The stadion (plural stadia, στάδιον; latinized as stadium), also anglicized as stade, was an ancient Greek unit of length, consisting of 600 Ancient Greek feet (podes).
States and union territories of India
India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 entities.
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Streamflow
Streamflow, or channel runoff, is the flow of water in streams and other channels, and is a major element of the water cycle.
Subduction
Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.
Sugarcane
Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production.
Sultanganj, Bihar
Sultanganj is a town located in the Bhagalpur district of the India state of Bihar.
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Sundarbans
Sundarbans (pronounced) is a mangrove area in the delta formed by the confluence of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna Rivers in the Bay of Bengal.
Sunil Amrith
Sunil S. Amrith (born 4 September 1979) is a historian who is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University.
Surma-Meghna River System
The Surma-Meghna River System is a river complex in the Indian Subcontinent, one of the three that form the Ganges Delta, the largest on earth. Ganges and Surma-Meghna River System are international rivers of Asia and rivers of Bangladesh.
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Svarga
Svarga (lit), also known as Indraloka and Svargaloka, is the celestial abode of the devas in Hinduism.
Swamp
A swamp is a forested wetland.
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Tamsa River
The Tamsa River is a tributary of the Ganges flowing through the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Ganges and Tamsa River are ganges basin and rivers of Uttar Pradesh.
Teesta River
Teesta River is a long river that rises in the Pauhunri Mountain of eastern Himalayas, flows through the Indian states of Sikkim and West Bengal and subsequently enters Bangladesh through Rangpur division. Ganges and Teesta River are international rivers of Asia, rivers of Bangladesh and rivers of West Bengal.
Tehri Dam
With a height of 260.5 m (855 ft) Tehri Dam is the tallest dam in India and 13th tallest dam in the world. Ganges and Tehri Dam are Rigvedic rivers and rivers of Uttarakhand.
The Economist
The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.
The Hindu
The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.
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The Telegraph (India)
The Telegraph is an Indian English daily newspaper founded and continuously published in Kolkata since 7 July 1982.
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The Times of India
The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.
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The Tribune (India)
The Tribune is an Indian English-language daily newspaper published from Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Bathinda, Chandigarh and Gurugram.
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Threatened species
A threatened species is any species (including animals, plants and fungi) which is vulnerable to extinction in the near future.
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Three-striped roofed turtle
The three-striped roofed turtle (Batagur dhongoka) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae.
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Tibetan Plateau
The Tibetan Plateau, also known as Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and Qing–Zang Plateau, is a vast elevated plateau located at the intersection of Central, South, and East Asia covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region, most of Qinghai, western half of Sichuan, Southern Gansu provinces in Western China, southern Xinjiang, Bhutan, the Indian regions of Ladakh and Lahaul and Spiti (Himachal Pradesh) as well as Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan, northwestern Nepal, eastern Tajikistan and southern Kyrgyzstan.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Tirtha (Hinduism)
Tirtha (तीर्थ) is a Sanskrit word that means "crossing place, ford", and refers to any place, text or person that is holy.
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Tocantins River
The Tocantins River (Rio Tocantins, Parkatêjê: Pyti) is a river in Brazil, the central fluvial artery of the country.
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Tor (fish)
Tor is a genus of cyprinid fish commonly known as mahseers.
Tor putitora
Tor putitora, the Putitor mahseer, Himalayan mahseer, or golden mahseer, is an endangered species of cyprinid fish that is found in rapid streams, riverine pools, and lakes in the Himalayan region.
Tor tor
Tor tor, commonly known as the tor mahseer or tor barb, is a species of cyprinid fish found in fast-flowing rivers and streams with rocky bottoms in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Pakistan. It is a commercially important food and game fish. In the Himalayan rivers, the population is rapidly declining through its native range, including some evidence of catastrophic collapse, due to pollution, overfishing, the effects of dam building, climate change and introductions of other mahseer species.
Total organic carbon
Total organic carbon (TOC) is an analytical parameter representing the concentration of organic carbon in a sample.
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Transboundary river
A transboundary river is a river that crosses at least one political border, either a border within a state or an international boundary.
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Transhimalaya
The Trans himalaya (also spelled Trans-Himalaya), or "Gangdise – Nyenchen Tanglha range" (p), is a mountain range in China, India and Nepal, extending in a west–east direction parallel to the main Himalayan range.
Tribhanga
Tribhaṅga or Tribunga is a standing body position or stance used in traditional Indian art and Indian classical dance forms like the Odissi, where the body bends in one direction at the knees, the other direction at the hips and then the other again at the shoulders and neck.
Trisul
Trisul is a group of three Himalayan mountain peaks of western Kumaun, Uttarakhand, with the highest (Trisul I) reaching 7120m.
Triveni Sangam
In Hindu tradition, Triveni Sangam is the confluence (Sanskrit: sangama) of three rivers that is also a sacred place, with a bath here said to flush away all of one's sins and free one from the cycle of rebirth. Ganges and Triveni Sangam are sacred rivers.
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
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Trough (geology)
In geology, a trough is a linear structural depression that extends laterally over a distance.
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Tube well
A tube well is a type of water well in which a long, -wide, stainless steel tube or pipe is bored underground.
Typhoid fever
Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a disease caused by Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi bacteria, also called Salmonella typhi.
Udayagiri Caves
The Udayagiri Caves are twenty rock-cut caves near Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh primarily denoted to the Hindu gods Vishnu and Shiva from the early years of the 3rd century CE to 5th century CE.
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Ujjain
Ujjain (Hindustani pronunciation: ʊd͡ːʒɛːn, old name Avantika) or Ujjayinī is a city in Ujjain district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
Uluberia
Uluberia is a city and a municipal area of Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
Unnao
Unnao is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
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Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh ('North Province') is a state in northern India.
Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand, formerly known as Uttaranchal (the official name until 2007), is a state in northern India.
Uttarakhand High Court
The Uttarakhand High Court is the High Court of the state of Uttarakhand in India.
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Vahana
Vahana (translit) or vahanam denotes the being, typically an animal or mythical entity, a particular Hindu deity is said to use as a vehicle.
Vaishali district
Vaishali district is a district of Mithila region in the Indian state of Bihar.
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Vaishnavism
Vaishnavism (translit-std) is one of the major Hindu denominations along with Shaivism, Shaktism, and Smartism.
Vamana
Vamana also known as Trivikrama, Urukrama, Upendra, Dadhivamana, and Balibandhana, is an avatar of the Hindu deity Vishnu.
Varanasi
Varanasi (ISO:,; also Benares, Banaras or Kashi) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.
Vedas
The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India.
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Vegetable oil
Vegetable oils, or vegetable fats, are oils extracted from seeds or from other parts of edible plants.
Vindhya Range
The Vindhya Range (also known as Vindhyachal) is a complex, discontinuous chain of mountain ridges, hill ranges, highlands and plateau escarpments in west-central India.
Vishnu
Vishnu, also known as Narayana and Hari, is one of the principal deities of Hinduism.
Vishnuprayag
Vishnuprayāg is the confluence of India's Alaknanda and Dhauliganga rivers—the first of five major confluences of the Alakanda known as the Panch Prayag.
Vritra
Vritra is a danava in Hinduism.
Walking catfish
The walking catfish (Clarias batrachus) is a species of freshwater airbreathing catfish native to Southeast Asia.
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Wari-Bateshwar ruins
The Wari-Bateshwar (উয়ারী-বটেশ্বর,Uari-Bôṭeshshor) ruins in Narsingdi, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh is one of the oldest urban archaeological sites in Bangladesh.
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Water pollution in India
Water pollution refers to the contamination of water bodies (such as rivers, lakes, oceans, groundwater) by harmful substances or pathogens, making them unfit for human use or harmful to aquatic life.
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Water scarcity
Water scarcity (closely related to water stress or water crisis) is the lack of fresh water resources to meet the standard water demand.
Water table
The water table is the upper surface of the zone of saturation.
West Bengal
West Bengal (Bengali: Poshchim Bongo,, abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India.
Wild boar
The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania.
Wildcat
The wildcat is a species complex comprising two small wild cat species: the European wildcat (Felis silvestris) and the African wildcat (F. lybica).
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.
World Wide Fund for Nature
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is a Swiss-based international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment.
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Yama
Yama (lit), also known as Kāla and Dharmarāja, is the Hindu god of death and justice, responsible for the dispensation of law and punishment of sinners in his abode, Naraka.
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Yamuna
The Yamuna is the second-largest tributary river of the Ganges by discharge and the longest tributary in India. Ganges and Yamuna are environmental personhood, Rigvedic rivers, rivers in Buddhism, rivers of Delhi, rivers of Uttar Pradesh, rivers of Uttarakhand and sacred rivers.
Yangtze
Yangtze or Yangzi is the longest river in Eurasia, the third-longest in the world.
YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
See also
Bangladesh–India border
- 1979 Bangladesh-Indian skirmishes
- 2001 Bangladesh–India border clashes
- 2005 Bangladesh-India border clash
- 2019 Bangladesh-Indian border clash
- Balat, Meghalaya
- Banglabandha
- Bangladesh–India border
- Barak River
- Bay of Bengal
- Benapole
- Benapole Border Crossing
- Border shooting of Felani Khatun
- Dahagram–Angarpota
- Dahala Khagrabari
- Deaths along the Bangladesh–India border
- Defence of Kamalpur
- Dhalai River
- Feni River
- Ganges
- Ichamati River
- India–Bangladesh border haats
- India–Bangladesh enclaves
- Petrapole
- Radcliffe Line
- Sajek River
- Siliguri Corridor
- Tin Bigha Corridor
Braided rivers in India
Environmental personhood
- Atrato River
- Environmental personhood
- Framework Law of Mother Earth and Integral Development for Living Well
- Ganges
- Law of the Rights of Mother Earth
- Legal guardian
- Mar Menor
- Mount Taranaki
- Rights of nature in Ecuador
- Rights of nature law
- Tamaqua, Pennsylvania
- Te Urewera
- Whanganui River
- Yamuna
- Yamuna River
Ganges basin
- Bhagirathi River
- Buriganga River
- Ganges
- Ganges Basin
- Ganges Delta
- Gaula River (India)
- Kaunhara ghat
- Lake Manasarovar
- Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
- Meghna River
- Tamsa River
- Terai
National symbols of India
- Ashoka Chakra
- Asian elephant
- Banyan
- Bharat Mata
- Ficus benghalensis
- Flag of India
- Flags of India
- Ganges
- Ganges river dolphin
- Indian Army cap badges
- Indian elephant
- Indian national calendar
- Indian peafowl
- Jai Hind
- Jana Gana Mana
- Jana Gana Mana (music video)
- King cobra
- Lion Capital of Ashoka
- Mangifera indica
- Nanda Devi
- Nanda Devi Plutonium Mission
- National Pledge (India)
- National symbols of India
- Nelumbo nucifera
- Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971
- Satyameva Jayate
- Shaheen falcon
- Spinning wheel
- State Emblem of India
- Tiger
Rigvedic rivers
- Beas River
- Bhagirathi River
- Chautang
- Chenab River
- Dangri
- Dohan river
- Drishadvati River
- Ganga (goddess)
- Ganges
- Ghaggar-Hakra River
- Gomal River
- Haro River
- Indori river
- Indus River
- Jhelum River
- Kabul River
- Kaushalya river
- Krishnavati river
- Markanda River (Haryana)
- Nadistuti Sukta
- Rasā
- Ravi River
- Rigvedic rivers
- Rivers in Hinduism
- Sahibi River
- Sarasvati River
- Sarsuti
- Soan River
- Somb river
- Sutlej
- Swat River
- Tapati
- Tehri Dam
- Yamuna
Rivers in Buddhism
- Amu Darya
- Beas River
- Betwa River
- Chenab River
- Chumig Gyatsa
- Gandaki River
- Ganges
- Ghaghara
- Godavari River
- Gomti River
- Gorai-Madhumati River
- Indus River
- Jhelum River
- Kabul River
- Kaveri
- Lilajan River
- Mahanadi
- Mahi River
- Mandakini River
- Narmada River
- Phalgu River
- Ravi River
- Sanzu River
- Sarasvati River
- Sutlej
- Swat River
- Thamirabarani River
- Vaitarani (mythology)
- Vishwamitri River
- West Rapti River
- Yamuna
Rivers of Bihar
- Ajay River
- Bagmati River
- Burhi Gandak River
- Chandan River
- Dharmawati River
- Durgavati River
- Gandaki River
- Ganges
- Gangi River
- Kamala River
- Kankai River
- Kari Kosi
- Karmanasa River
- Kaunhara ghat
- Kiul River
- Kodra River
- Kosi River
- Kulik River
- Lakhandei River
- Lilajan River
- Mahananda River
- Mechi River
- Mohana River
- Phalgu River
- Punpun River
- Ratnawati River
- Ratua Khola
- Saura river
- Sirsiya River
- Son River
- Sone River
- Suar River
- Trimohini Sangam
Rivers of Delhi
Rivers of Jharkhand
- Ajay River
- Amanat River
- Auranga River (Jharkhand)
- Baitarani River
- Bakreshwar River
- Bansloi River
- Barakar River
- Bokaro River
- Brahmani River (Birbhum)
- Burha River
- Damodar River
- Deo River
- Dwarka River
- Ganges
- Hinglo River
- Jamunia River
- Kangsabati River
- Kanhar River
- Kaunhara ghat
- Kharkai River
- Kiul River
- Koina River
- Konar River
- Lilajan River
- Mayurakshi River
- Mohana River
- North Karo River
- North Koel River
- Punpun River
- Sankh River
- Sone River
- South Karo River
- South Koel River
- Subarnarekha River
- Telen River
Rivers of Uttarakhand
- Alaknanda River
- Asan Barrage
- Baur River
- Bhagirathi River
- Bhilangna River
- Bindal River
- Darma Valley
- Deoha
- Dhauliganga River
- Ganges
- Gaula River (India)
- Gomati River (Uttarakhand)
- Gori Ganga
- Jadh Ganga
- Kosi River (Uttarakhand)
- Lakshman Ganga
- Mandakini River
- Nayar River
- Pindar River
- Pushpawati River
- Ramganga
- Rishiganga
- Rispana River
- Sarasvati River
- Saraswati River (Uttarakhand)
- Sarju
- Sharda River
- Song River (India)
- Tehri Dam
- Tons River
- Vasuki Ganga
- Yamuna
- Yamuna River
Sacred rivers
- Beki River
- Bhagirathi River
- Bhavani River
- Brahmaputra River
- Cibeet River
- Ganges
- Ghat
- Godavari River
- Gomti River
- Gualcarque River
- Hooghly River
- Indus River
- Jacobs River (New Zealand)
- Jordan River
- Kaveri
- Krishna River
- Manas River
- Narmada River
- Osun River
- Sacred Headwaters
- Sarasvati River
- Saru River
- Triveni Sangam
- Tuckasegee River
- Turag River
- West Rapti River
- Yamuna
- Zuni River
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