Landsat, Geology and Sarasvati

[Kalyans at aol.com]

I have been asked to provide more technical citations on Sarasvati river. 

I will be happy to provide, to interested indologists, extracts from the
following, mainly geological, bibliographical references compiled in a 6-page
note which seeks to substantiate the expanse of the Harappan culture on the
Indus_Sarasvati river valleys. [I shall be grateful for help on obtaining
copies of A-4 size photographs and slides of the landsat images contained in
some of these references.]

SARASVATI RIVER: A BIBLIOGRAPHY

Alex Rogers, 1870. A few remarks on the Geology of the country surrounding
the Gulf of Cambay in Western India, Quarterly Journal of Geological
Societyof London, 26: 118-124

R.D. Oldham, 1886, On probable changes in the geography of the Punjab and its
rivers - a historico-geographical study, J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 55: 322-343

C.F. Oldham, 1893, The Saraswati and the lost river of the Indian Desert,
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, pp. 48-76

Bimal Ghose, Amal Kar and Zahid Husain, 1979, The lost courses of the
Sarasvati river in the Great Indian Desert: New evidence from Landsat
Imagery, Geographical Journal, 145: 446-451

Ramasamy, SM, PC Bakliwal and RP Verma, 1991, Remote Sensing and River
migrations in Western India, Int. J. Remote Sensing, Vol. 12, No. 12,
2597-2609

P.C. Bakliwal and A.K. Grover, 1988, Signatures and migration of Saraswati
river in Thar desert, Western India, Rec. Geol. Surv. Ind., 116: Pts. 3-8,
pp. 77-86

Singhvi AK and Kar, Amal eds., 1992, Thar Desert in Rajasthan: Land, Man and
Environment, Bangalore, Geological Society of India, Bangalore

Mughal M.R. (1982, Recent archaeological research in the Cholistan desert,
in: Harappan Civilization, GL Possehl, ed., Oxford, pp. 85-95)

Kar, A., Drainage  desiccation, water erosion and desertification in
northwest India, in: Desertification in the Thar, Sahara and Sahel Regions,
AK Sen ed., Scientific Publishers, Jodhpur

Valdiya, KS, 1989, Neotectonic implication of collision of Indian and Asian
plates, Ind. J. Geology, 61: 1-13

Ghosh, A., 1952, The Rajasthan Desert - its archaeological aspect, Bulletin
of the National Inst. Sci., I : 37-42

Bhan, S., 1973, The sequence and spread of prehistoric cultures in the upper
Saraswati basin in: Radiocarbon and Indian Archaeology, DP Agrawal and A.
Ghosh eds., TIFR, Bombay, pp. 252-263

Lal. B.B., 1979, Kaliban and Indus civilization, in: Essays in Indian
Protohistory, DP Agrawal and DK Chakrabarti eds., BR Publ., Delhi, pp. 65-97

Yash Pal, Baldev Sahai, R.K.Sood and D.P. Agrawal, Space Applications Centre,
and PRL, Ahmedabad: Proc. Indan Acad. Sci. (Earth and Planetary Sci.), Vol.
89, No. 3, Nov. 1980, pp. 317-331

R.L. Raikes, 1968, Kalibangan: Death from Natural causes, Antiquity, 42, pp.
286-291

Gurdip Singh, 1971, Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania, 6,
177-189: The Indus Valley Culture seen in the context of post-glacial
climatic and ecological studies in North-West India

Amal Kar and Bimal Ghose, 1984, Geographical Journal, The Drishadvati river
system of India: an assessment and new findings, 150: 221-229

Aurel Stein, 1942, A survey of ancient sites along the 'lost' Sarasvati
River, Geographical Journal, 99: 173-182

D. A. Holmes, 1968, The recent history of the Indus, Geographical Journal,
134: 367-382Lambrick 

H.T.Lambrick, 1967, The Indus Flood-plain and the 'Indus' civilization,
Geographical Journal, 133,4: 483-95

Dr. S. Kalyanaraman
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kalyans at ix.netcom.com
June 1995