Indus River: References & Edit History
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Descriptions of the Indus are found in surveys of the corresponding regions, such as H.T. Lambrick, Sind: A General Introduction, 3rd ed. (1986); Peter R. Blood (ed.), Pakistan: A Country Study, 6th ed. (1995); and K.U. Kureshy, A Geography of Pakistan, 3rd ed. enlarged (1997). Works on the Indus itself include Jean Fairley, The Lion River: The Indus (1975), a history of civilization in the Indus valley and of its discovery and exploration; Aloys Arthur Michel, The Indus Rivers: A Study of the Effects of Partition (1967), a discussion of the problem of water resources in the Indus valley; Nazir Ahmad and Ghulam Rasul Chaudhry, Irrigated Agriculture of Pakistan (1988); and A.H. Siddiqi, “Society and Economy of the Tribal Belt in Pakistan,” Geoforum, 18(1):65–79 (1987). Geoffrey Moorhouse, To the Frontier (1984, reprinted 2008); and Alice Albinia, Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River (2008), are descriptive works. Azra Meadows and Peter S. Meadows (eds.), The Indus River: Biodiversity, Resources, Humankind (1999), is a useful collection of papers on geology, biology, resources, and human activities in the Indus basin. A specialist book on the geomorphology of the region is John F. Shroder, Jr. (ed.), Himalaya to the Sea (1993).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modified link of Web site: Oxford Public International Law - Indus River. | Oct 25, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Food and Agricultural Organizations of the United Nations - Transboundary River Basin Overview Indus (PDF). | Mar 06, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Oxford Public International Law - Indus River. | Nov 28, 2025 | ||
| Article revised and updated | Oct 08, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Thermochronology of the modern Indus River bedload: New insight into the controls on the marine stratigraphic record (PDF). | Aug 01, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: NASA Science - World of Change: Seasons of the Indus River. | Jun 21, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - A brief history of the Indus River. | Oct 13, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: MapsofIndia.com - Indus River Map. | Apr 28, 2023 | ||
| Updated the administrative status of Jammu and Kashmir. | Mar 19, 2021 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Feb 06, 2019 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Feb 16, 2015 | ||
| Bibliography revised and updated. | Feb 16, 2015 | ||
| Media added. | Feb 16, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: MapsofIndia.com - Rivers in India - Indus River Map. | Aug 29, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Encyclopedia of Earth - Indus River. | Jan 24, 2013 | ||
| Bibliography updated. | Mar 06, 2009 | ||
| Article thoroghly revised and updated; photographs added. | Mar 06, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Geography - The Indus River. | Jul 08, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 26, 1999 |