Sen has written extensively about the history of the Gangetic valley, and how the empire and its Hindu Rajput ... that such mythical events actually took place,” said Sen. The Ganges River is central ...

The History Lecture Series hosted their second installment of “River Histories” on Jan. 29 with a lecture presented by ...

The Ganges river in India is more than 2,500km long and has the most populated river basin in the world. Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But ...

DW follows one couple’s spiritual journey to wash away their sins in the Ganges River. Ramesh Chandra promised his wife, Manju, on their wedding day two decades ago that he would take her to ...

Security officials make way for an ambulance as Hindu devotees gather for a holy dip by the banks of the Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers ...

(AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) Hindu women devotees pray after taking bath at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers, a day before the official beginning of the ...

The Promise of the Kumbh Mela According to a tradition that reaches back to the foundations of Hinduism, a ritual dip in the ...