{"id":86162,"date":"2019-11-18T06:47:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T06:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=86162"},"modified":"2019-11-18T06:47:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T06:47:56","slug":"book-the-unquiet-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/book-the-unquiet-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: The Unquiet River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: A book titled The Unquiet River authored by noted historian Arupjyoti Saikia, is based upon the biography of which river?<br> (a) Ganga <br> (b) Yamuna<br> (c) Brahmaputra<br> (d) Narmada<br> Answer: (c)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A book titled The Unquiet River: A biography of the Brahmaputra is going to be released in November 2019. <\/li><li>It has been published by Oxford University Press (OUP) and authored by historian Arupjyoti Saikia.<\/li><li>Placing the river Brahmaputra at the centre the book has recreated the sequential history of Assam. <\/li><li>The Brahmaputra River geologically is the youngest among the major rivers in the world yet it is known as a moving ocean. <\/li><li>The river Brahmaputra travels 2880 km from its origin in the young Himalayan range through the Tibet and played major role in shaping the landscape of the Assam valley.<\/li><li>Before finally merging with the sea in Bangladesh, the river gives many things to the people of Assam as well as providing them livelihoods.<\/li><li>The book claims to combine a range of disciplinary scholarship to unravel the geological forces as well as human endeavour which have shaped the river into what it is today. <\/li><li>The book describes the river&#8217;s long journey from past to the present time and its central role in the beat of Assam. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/pti-stories\/new-book-deep-dives-into-brahmaputra-s-history-119102800518_1.html\">https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/pti-stories\/new-book-deep-dives-into-brahmaputra-s-history-119102800518_1.html<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/sandrp.in\/tag\/brahmaputra-and-northeast-india\/\">https:\/\/sandrp.in\/tag\/brahmaputra-and-northeast-india\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: A book titled The Unquiet River authored by noted historian Arupjyoti Saikia, is based upon the biography of which river? (a) Ganga (b) Yamuna (c) Brahmaputra (d) Narmada Answer: (c) Related facts: A book titled The Unquiet River: A biography of the Brahmaputra is going to be released in November 2019. It has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":86165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145],"tags":[3011],"class_list":["post-86162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bks","tag-books-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}