Ganges

The vast majority of people affected will live in South Asia and Africa, in river valleys like the Ganges, Indus, Nile and Niger.

Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees continue to show up each day for a dip in the Ganges as part of the Kumbh Mela pilgrimage in Haridwar, Uttarakhand.

New industries were set up and the Ganges was becoming polluted.

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I live in Kanpur, an industrial city in north India on the banks of the Ganges, and this morning I’m with Dubey on one of the flights of stairs, or ghats, that dot the riverbank.

These men knew little or nothing, as yet, of the great events that were taking place on the south and west of the Ganges.

Chumru and the ryot bestrode the third horse, and under the guidance of one who knew every path, they set out for the Ganges.

The fever of rebellion had spread along the whole of the left bank of the Ganges as far as Allahabad.

He was at last discovered on the banks of the Ganges, standing near a human body, which he kept licking.

From there we proceeded up the Gury, a large tributary stream flowing into the Ganges below Rumpurbolea.