It is indeed shameful that arguably one of the most important rivers in India is studied by scientists in the US and China. What do scientists in India do? Play politics and appear on TV shows? For all it's bravado as a "rising superpower" with a glorious past India is missing in action in all the important spheres of science and technology. India is an inward facing, egoistical nation that is forever a "superpower of the future". The only tragedy being that most Indians don't want to confront this reality or are perhaps blissfully ignorant of this reality.
Nice video...But distracting pronunciation. Nobody in India calls it Ganges. Using Ganges instead of Ganga keeps derailing listener focus and is akin to someone else telling you how your name should be pronounced. Apart from that excellent series. I like how Print has a Science editor. Kudos
I don't mean to disrespect the word "Ganga" but you wound never say in English, "I love my Bharat", right? India:Bharat is Ganges:Ganga. It all boils down to mixing the names from language. Ive realized it and so I decide to focus on facts and ignore the name. And well someone great once said "Whats in a name?"
@@satyamdudhagara3444 Names are supposed to be the same in every language. It's the colonial mindset which forces us to accept different pronunciation of words from our languages.
@@alileevil the principle in question here is identity. I speak English as a medium to communicate with my fellow countrymen, this doesn't mean i have to pronounce my name as a British would, does it?
@@alileevil He is not saying that he is abandoning everything that came from the British. That is stupid. The argument is for maintaining correct names of our own cultural and historical places as per our people and let them not dictate that. He is not challenging us to change the English word "the" to "huh".
Lower alluvial plains are generally too soft to be impacted by earthquake. Was the occurence of the earthquake in upper course that affected lower course?
WTH it's not Ganges, it Ganga,it as simple as that. Just bcoz foreigners can't pronounce something doesn't mean we r supposed to change the pronounciation of Sanskrit/Hindi words.
It may not be a Sanskrit word. Sanskrit is a fancy word for the eastern Persian Indo-European language of the migrants. They could have used the local word and used ever since.
For a long time I wondered why Ganga is called Ganges in English, the pronunciation doesn't make any sense, British could have easily pronounced Ganga...then I realized, many people called Ganga as GangaJi, which the British heard and pronounced as Gangji and then add a plural s, because of its vast tributary network..and you get an ugly name like Ganges. I think it's time we should start calling it by its actual name. The old river branch in Bangladesh is called BuriGanga, Buri literally means an old Female..it's a common practice to call the old channel of a river as Buri, in Bengali, there is another Buri Ganga in Kolkata as well, an old channel of Bhagirathi and there are many many more old channels of many other rivers all of which start with that Buri prefix. So, i am definitely not shocked by this news. But, good and precise analysis indeed.
No. Burigonga flows in Dhaka and the old branch which you are calling is called Padma. Padma isn’t the old. Padma is the new one which was created after Ganga/Gonga changed its direction. Baghirathi is the old branch.
16th Century is the time Moghols came to Bengal. It was no way sparcely populated at that time. It was already a bustling place. The proof comes from two facts: 1. Bengal Elites mounted a massive resistance against Moghols from mid fifteen hundreds till they fell. How on earth a sparsely populated region mount one of the strongest resistance Moghols faced in all of India? 2. Just after Moghol take-over, the 'Subeh Bangla' became the richest Subah (province) of Moghol empire. How on earth a sparcely populated region become so rich? Specially when there's little mineral resource in that region.
@@aniksamiurrahman6365 my comment was about east bengal(bangladesh).. read Michael cook - history of islam.. he mentions ganges changed its course in late 16th century.. the silt deposited made the east bengal lowland more agricultural friendly..mslms elites mainly sufi moved and brought the peasants with them.. who eventually converted to islam.. most bangladesh mslm r from this peasant population.. not pathans or turk.. this explains why bangladesh became mslm dominated..
@@locomotive43 I haven't said anything about Ganga changing direction. That's a geological fact. But East Bengal being sparcely populated? East Bengal became Muslim majority at the wake of 1300, during the reign of independent Sultanate of Bengal. Please show me any record of Sufis bringing lakhs of people with them. Secondly, The then Moghol capital was in Dhaka, today's Bangladesh Capital. The Bengal Elites who faught Moghols, their capital was in Soargaon, today called Narayanganj, which also is in Bangladesh. The first Moghol Governor of Bengal, ruling from Dhaka was Emperor Jahangir's ungle Shaista Khan. Why ud Emperor Jahangir send his uncle to a sparsely populated region? And how on earth Shaista khan became the richest governor under Moghol reign if the east Bengal was so sparcely populated? Your comment about the then East Bengal being a sparsely populated just doesn't match any of the history. Only shows that you got little understanding of this region.
@@locomotive43 Instead, West Bengal didn't rise to prominance before Murshid Kuli Khan moved the capital from Dhaka to Murshidabad. But west Bengla gained importance mainly during British reign. Everything about Bengal before that is mainly centered around regions surrounding the Ganga. Not East or West Bengal in particular.
Don't you think we should fight for the original name of Ganga and reject the Latinos version. Do you know any original Latin name of rivers which have been changed in English language. Like this is clearly not good for the original name Ganga.
