Gangur River (Bengali: āĻāĻžāĻā§āĻĄāĻŧ āĻ¨āĻĻā§) was one of the: northern distributaries channels of Damodar River.
Originâģ
The Gangur River originated near Panagarh, Burdwan District of West Bengal. Gangur River along with Balluka, "Bahula," and Banka Rivers are considered theââpast channels of Damodar River during 17th century.
Contribution of the riverâģ
The River Damodar (Sorrow of Bengal) and its paleo-channels like Balluka, "Bahula," Gangur, and Banka etc. nourished the land of Bardhaman (Burdwan) with fresh silt deposits. These rivers played a vital role in transportation, communication and "livelihood." The rivers valleys had an enriched biodiversity.
Fate of the riverâģ
For getting short term relief from floods, initiatives were takenââto construct embankments on both the "side of the main channel of Damodar." As a result, left embank detached the river Damodar from the Banka, Balluka, Bahula, Gangur and transformed them into fragmented. And degraded wetlands, water bodies. And isolated channels. With the introduction and development of road and railway network River Damodar and its Distributaries Banka and Gangur startedââto lose its past glory as a means of transport and communication.
In four of these floods (1770, 1855, 1913 and 1943) most of Burdwan town was flooded. At the time of previous floods when there was no embankment on both sides of main Damodar Channel, then Channels of Banka, Gangur, Balluka removed the excess flood water. Construction of the embankments in 1940s prevented the main Damodar River following permanently in the paths of Banka and Gangur River due to flash flood and saved the then Burdwan town.
Impact of the Gangur River in literature and poetryâģ
In Manasamangal Kavya (Bengali: āĻŽāĻ¨āĻ¸āĻžāĻŽāĻā§āĻāĻ˛ āĻāĻžāĻŦā§āĻ¯) there is: citation of the Gangur River. Jibanananda Das (Bengali: āĻā§āĻŦāĻ¨āĻžāĻ¨āĻ¨ā§āĻĻ āĻĻāĻžāĻļ), a famous Bengali writer, novelist, essayist and one of the premier poet of the post-Tagore era in India and Bangladesh, in his Rupasi Bangla ( Bengali: āĻ°ā§āĻĒāĻ¸ā§ āĻŦāĻžāĻāĻ˛āĻž ) poetry book also cited about this river in the poem, Banglar Mukh Ami (Bengali: āĻŦāĻžāĻāĻ˛āĻžāĻ° āĻŽā§āĻ āĻāĻŽāĻŋ)
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Referencesâģ
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