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The book documents his travel along the Indus River. [1] The work presents Khan in the roles of a travel writer, tour guide, and amateur historian. [1] The book provides a comprehensive overview of the river's path from its delta on the Arabian Sea to its source in the Himalayas. [1]
Indus is an antecedent river, meaning that it existed before the Himalayas and entrenched itself while they were rising. The Indus River feeds the Indus submarine fan, which is the second largest sediment body on Earth. [31] It consists of around 5 million cubic kilometres of material eroded from the mountains.
Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River is a non-fiction book by Alice Albinia published in 2008 by John Murray. It is a part-memoir part-essay recount of Albinia's Journey through Central and Southern Asia, following the course of the Indus River from Karachi to Tibet. Throughout the book, Albinia encounters and describes facets of culture ...
Urdu literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ اُردُو, “Adbiyāt-i Urdū”) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language.While it tends to be dominated by poetry, especially the verse forms of the ghazal (غزل) and nazm (نظم), it has expanded into other styles of writing, including that of the short story, or afsana (افسانہ).
The Greeks who conquered Sindh in 325 BC under the command of Alexander the Great referred to the Indus River as Indós, hence the modern Indus. The ancient Iranians referred to everything east of the river Indus as hind. [5] [6] The word Sind is a Persian derivative of the Sanskrit term Sindhu, meaning "river" - a reference to Indus River. [7]
It is situated at an average elevation of nearly 2,500 metres (8,202 feet) above sea level in the Skardu Valley, at the confluence of the Indus and Shigar rivers. [3] It is an important gateway to the eight-thousanders of the nearby Karakoram mountain range. The Indus River running through the region separates the Karakoram from the Ladakh ...
Sindhi Literature. Prominent in Sindhi culture, Sindhi poetry (Sindhi: سنڌي شاعري) continues an oral tradition dating back a thousand years. The verbal verses were based on folk tales. Sindhi is one of the major oldest languages of the Indus Valley, having a peculiar literary colour both in poetry and prose. Sindhi poetry is very rich ...
Urdu-language books (4 C, 64 P) Urdu-language literary movements ... Pages in category "Urdu-language literature" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of ...