Ganges River: Ganges River, great river of the plains of the northern Indian subcontinent that from time immemorial has been the holy river of Hinduism. ... read more
The Ganges Canal highlighted in red stretching between its headworks off the Ganges River in Hardwar and its confluences with the Jumna River in Etawah and with the Ganges in Cawnpore (now Kanpur). The first British canal in India—with no Indian antecedents—was the Ganges Canal built between 1842 and 1854. read more
The River Ganges, also known as the Ganga, flows 2,700 km from the Himalaya mountains to the Bay of Bengal in northern India and Bangladesh. Regarded as sacred by Hindus, the river is personified as the goddess Ganga in ancient texts and art. read more