CHAMBAL RIVER
Chambal river has romantic associations, because of the dacoits who once ruled the ravines, through which it flows, before joining the Yamuna.
Ravines are irregularly formed terrain, totally un-inhabited because of the difficulty in building roads. The whole area is mud. The rains carry away the soil whimsically, leaving the remaining soil in unimaginably eerie shapes, resembling Himalayan ranges. The horse is ideal for travel in this terrain and dacoits are experts in horse riding. There are any number of films depicting the exploits of these villainous heroes, Ganga -Yamuna being one. The films do not show the true ravines, as it is impossible to take the shooting set up through to ravines. Bhind and Morena (There is a railway station at Morena, between Gwalior and Dhaulpur stations) districts are full of ravines once infested with dacoits.
I have tried to find out the course of various tributaries of the river, so that I may pinpoint its source. Somewhere I lose my way.
The point from which the longest branch emerges is the source. Which is the longest one? I can see one, whose southern end reaches very near to the Narmada river, above lat. 22 degree north, near Indore. It leads to Gandhisagar lake in Madhya Pradesh.The name of this river is not mentioned in the children’s school atlas. However, it is clear that the river springs from the Vindhya ranges and flows thriugh the Malwa plateau.
There has been any number of expeditions to determine the source of the Nile, and still all have not agreed on this point. Why not Delhi University do it, with reeference to the Chambal river? Even at 76, I am ready to join the group.
Way back in the nineteen fifties, an ambitious scheme was conceived, to harness the river flow for producing electricity and storing water for irrigation.
The first one was Gandhisagar dam in Madhya Pradesh. You can see it near Jhalawar. Then comes Rana Pratapsagar, at Rawatbhata, some 60 K.M. west of Kota. Both produce electricity.One more at Jawaharsagar dam and Kota barrage complete the sheme.
The main tributaries of the river, before it joins the Yamuna, near lat. 26 degree north, are Banas, Kalisindh and Parbati.The map is very confusing at the point of its junction with the Yamuna.
Ravines are irregularly formed terrain, totally un-inhabited because of the difficulty in building roads. The whole area is mud. The rains carry away the soil whimsically, leaving the remaining soil in unimaginably eerie shapes, resembling Himalayan ranges. The horse is ideal for travel in this terrain and dacoits are experts in horse riding. There are any number of films depicting the exploits of these villainous heroes, Ganga -Yamuna being one. The films do not show the true ravines, as it is impossible to take the shooting set up through to ravines. Bhind and Morena (There is a railway station at Morena, between Gwalior and Dhaulpur stations) districts are full of ravines once infested with dacoits.
I have tried to find out the course of various tributaries of the river, so that I may pinpoint its source. Somewhere I lose my way.
The point from which the longest branch emerges is the source. Which is the longest one? I can see one, whose southern end reaches very near to the Narmada river, above lat. 22 degree north, near Indore. It leads to Gandhisagar lake in Madhya Pradesh.The name of this river is not mentioned in the children’s school atlas. However, it is clear that the river springs from the Vindhya ranges and flows thriugh the Malwa plateau.
There has been any number of expeditions to determine the source of the Nile, and still all have not agreed on this point. Why not Delhi University do it, with reeference to the Chambal river? Even at 76, I am ready to join the group.
Way back in the nineteen fifties, an ambitious scheme was conceived, to harness the river flow for producing electricity and storing water for irrigation.
The first one was Gandhisagar dam in Madhya Pradesh. You can see it near Jhalawar. Then comes Rana Pratapsagar, at Rawatbhata, some 60 K.M. west of Kota. Both produce electricity.One more at Jawaharsagar dam and Kota barrage complete the sheme.
The main tributaries of the river, before it joins the Yamuna, near lat. 26 degree north, are Banas, Kalisindh and Parbati.The map is very confusing at the point of its junction with the Yamuna.
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