River of life, river of death : the Ganges and India's future / Victor Mallet.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017Copyright date: ℗♭2017Description: xix, 316 pages : illustrations (colour), map ; 22 cmContent type:- text
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- unmediated
- volume
- 9780198786177 (hbk.)
- 0198786174 (hbk.)
- 304.280954 MAL 23 011942
- DS485.G25 M35 2017
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Book | Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Chennai | 304.280954 MAL 011942 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 011942 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India. The waterway that has nourished more people than any on earth for three millennia is now so polluted with sewage and toxic waste that it has become a menace to human and animal health. 0Victor Mallet traces the holy river from source to mouth, and from ancient times to the present day, to find that the battle to rescue what is arguably the world's most important river is far from lost. As one Hindu sage told the author in Rishikesh on the banks of the upper Ganges (known to Hindus as the goddess Ganga): "If Ganga dies, India dies. If Ganga thrives, India thrives. The lives of 500 million people is no small thing." 0Drawing on four years of first-hand reporting and detailed historical and scientific research, Mallet delves into the religious, historical, and biological mysteries of the Ganges, and explains how Hindus can simultaneously revere and abuse their national river. 0.
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