Changing River Courses in North India Calamities, Bounties, Strategies—Sixteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries

摘要: Disaster is a multidimensional social phenomenon. Scholars, cutting across different disciplines, have yet to reach common understanding or consensus on the definition of disaster. To understand natural disaster and catastrophe, this article will study nature changing river courses their impact environment human-environment relations. It focus corrosive power rivers, destructive as well beneficent effects impetuous trajectories implications process. Our analysis based case one major systems in South Asia, i.e. Ganga (Ganges) its tributaries north India.