How Ganges jumped course from major ancient earthquake 2,500 years ago
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- A powerful earthquake nearly 2,500 years ago changed the course of the Ganges river dramatically and immediately, shows satellite and sand data. ThePrint #̦PureScience, Sandhya Ramesh explains the findings and implications.
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Sources and further reading:
- Paper: Chamberlain et al., 2024. www.nature.com/articles/s4146...
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"Today, just like always..." Best opening lines I have ever heard
Very interesting .... keep making such videos ..... our endeavors to change river courses should be warned
2500 years ago means 500 BC ,curious if this this earthquake is mentioned in any other history of that time
It was the time of Siddartha, Mahaveera, Makkali Gosala et cetera. (Main characters of multiple sramana religions)
Very informative and topical video.
We must have more on these lines.
Thanks.
Nice informative video. Keep up the good work
A repeat of such earthquake in modern times will be disastrous.😢
❤ I missed you Sandhya.
You should make more regular uploads.
Fine program, superb 👌 narrative!
Excellent analysis.
Very interesting findings!
new information for me . thank you
Great presentation
Nice video good job
This change of course of river ganga led to widespread settlement of people in present day bangladesh. Before that this area was mostly jungle.
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 was about to comment the same. Ditto.
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.
@@MrSaviourAh yes. Germans always call their country Deutschland right?
Also, don't speak in english. Use your local language
please stop watching the print and start watching the republic TV for more such content
interesting !
Nice ❤ One
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?
Around 16th century (or 15th cant remember) too ganga changed its course in Bangladesh.. before which it was mainly jungle and sparsely populated
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.
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.
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p00pJeet, in next 20 years almost every inddian city will face water shortage and severe heatwaves, your oligarch owned media is not showing the reality. 80+ cities are under top 100 major polluted cities of the world even if majority of inddians are employed in agriculture and inddia isn't even industrialised
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.
Excellent video except the constant cawing of the crow in the background that was disturbing indeed.
Yes sorry about that! Unfortunately for videos but fortunately for me, I hear birds all day long around me.
The crow is also reporting along with Sandhya 😂😂
It's Ganga not Ganges.
if we have similar earthquake today then all the garbage will start to follow
Now Cunny-Shetty will do a video on how the 'Ganjiiij' was a river that flowed through the middle eastern cities of Mecca and Medina.
Can you please pronounce ganga?
Its Ganga, Ganges was a mispronounced name given by British colonizers.
Whatever
I came here for commenting the same.
We must evolve Indian English. Americans speak whatever they like and they have different English.
Ironic given that you are speaking their language.
@@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".
Authors are from America and China. Leaves less to the imagination on why they are studying natural resources of Indian subcontinent.
because bhrahmins made the dalitts to worship the river while the knowledgeable ones can take the benefit
Wtf is ganjes. Pronounce it as Ganga
should have been just 5 mins video....the information is repeated and it gets boring!!!
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you are that earthquake 😍
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.
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GANGA. Ffs.
Don’t believe a word they say ,,
Because you are a geologist?😂😂
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.
Why do you call it "Ganges"? For heaven's sake call it the Ganga. Will anyone allow you to call the Volga as Volges?
Wow ‘Ganges’… what a name to call your mother….
Course change of paleo Saraswati river in similar circumstances found by indian researchers was mocked by leftists intellectuals. 😅
Use more showel to dig out the non-existent river. 😂😂😂😂