Adi Ganga - Wikipedia
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. It was the main flow of the Hooghly River between the 15th and 17th centuries, but it eventually dried up due to natural causes.
Adi Ganga- Enmeshed Water Heritage of Kolkata
Adi Ganga, a former channel of the River Hoogly flows across the southern visages of Kolkata towards the Bay of Bengal. Excavated in the 18th century by Major William Tolly of the East India Company for navigation and sewerage in the city, of Tolly’s Nullah.
Adi Ganga: Water Heritage of Kolkata’s enmeshed spaces of
The Adi Ganga-Tolly Nullah is an old channel of the Ganges flowing across the southern visages of urban Kolkata. It moves through the fringes of the city and finally meets the Bay of Bengal. Though various mediaeval indigenous literature such as The Mangal Kavyas and colonial accounts mention the river’s socio-economic paramountcy, at present ...
Story of the vanishing rivers – Saraswati and Adi Ganga of Bengal
2021年9月26日 · Like Saraswati, another stream drying up fast closer to Kolkata is the Adi Ganga, also known as Gobindapur Creek, that was the main flow of Hooghly between 15th-17th century but has subsequently dried up. In 1717, Edward Surman, excavated the creek and later the nullah was deepened by Colonel William Tolly in 1773 and connected to the Circular ...
(En)countering an urban riverscape: Ethno-graphic explorations on …
2024年8月1日 · The River Adi Ganga, forming an integral part of Calcutta's urban heritage due to its colonial era politico-economic importance and subsequent ecological degradation paralleled with social displacements, showcases an interlinked process of urban development and socionature destruction reflective of most South Asian urban rivers, while ...
The Adi Ganga - Economic and Political Weekly
The article sheds light on the Adi Ganga, one of the most significant streams of the Ganges in its lower course, and narrates how the stream (later Tolly’s Canal) which was once the life line of Kolkata transformed into a mere sewer and was ruthlessly slaughtered with the changing politico-economic interests of the state.
Case study 1: The Adi Ganga: The way we saw, felt, and ... - Springer
This segment introduces the case study of the River Adi Ganga in Kolkata, her cultural heritage and history and subsequent implications under urbanity through the tools of archival research, transect walks, cartography and sketches that depicts the …
Adi Ganga - WikiMili, The Best Wikipedia Reader
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. It was the main flow of the Hooghly River between the 15th and 17th centuries, but it eventually dried up due to natural causes.
Adi Ganga Revival Plan - दृष्टि आईएएस
2023年2月24日 · Recently, plans to revive Adi Ganga (the original channel of River Ganga passing through the city of Kolkata) have been announced. The National Mission for Clean Ganga has allocated around Rs 650 crore to revive the ancient river and it has been included in a multi-country South Asian River project on combating pollution.
(PDF) Location of the Adi Ganga palaeochannel, South 24
1996年6月1日 · The Adi Ganga is a palaeodistributary of the Bhagirathi, which was described as an important navigational channel in the mediaeval Bengali literature (Mangalkāvyas). Its degenerated course is...