Talk:Indus River

message: I inserted a "citation needed" under the claim that the Indus river civilization had used irrigation. as far as I know there is no evidence for it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guykom (talk • contribs) 09:20, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia provides a starting point to find such information. Indus Valley Civilization says "An extensive canal network, used for irrigation, has however also been discovered by H.-P. Francfort.". Lothal has a citation that a "dock" was perhaps an irrigation tank. A google search turns up Francfort, Henri-Paul "Evidence for Harappan irrigation system in Haryana and Rajasthan" The Eastern Anthropologist 1992 45, page 91. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 19:35, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indus river civilization made irrigation? 

message: Hello dear USer,sindhu(you call it Indus river) is part of Pakistan sindh,so it is in Scope of Pakistan Wikipedia too,so i will add tag of pakistan here so do not mind . —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Khalidkhoso (talk • contribs) 06:55, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sindhu (River indus) 

message: Modern are not disscued here,Those are Major for sindhi living in Pakistan Sindh,those are matter death\living to Us.I will add some more issue on it ,if any one any arge he/she can it,i will wait for one day —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Khalidkhoso (talk • contribs) 07:27, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern issues 

message: I thought this article was okay...it wasn't the best thought, it could have included the dissolved oxygen (DO) and the Nitrates, and the Alkalinity. Other wise I thought the article was very informative, very historical, and very well organized. Keep up the good work!! 216.228.51.246 15:11, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indus River 

message: I have added an infobox to the top of the article, it contains important data about the river from the article, if you have any extra info then add it to the relevant fields in the infobox, the infobox template will add/format the information automatically. I used Template:Geobox River for the template. Supaluminal 03:39, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added infobox

message: In Shendu, is said that Shendu is also the Chinese name for this river. Why isn't it added? -WarthogDemon 22:33, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shendu 

message: I dont see afghanistan being named as part of the countries who are tied to the river. One Must remember on the grounds, that before pakistan, afghanistan formed the west side of the river and thus the Indus river being the NATURAL boundry between Afghanistan and India. Somebody must take some actions on this.Pashtun786 (talk) 03:36, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well geographically speaking the Kabul river belongs to the Indus watershed at least.--Kmhkmh (talk) 09:03, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Afghanistan Historically is part of the Indus river 

message: The Avestan, as mentioned Vendidad, Fargard 1:18, is indeed Hindu (or more properly, hiṇdu), but the Avestan looks like this (third line of definition, directly preceding "Vd. …"), not 'حندو'. If anything, هِندُ might come closer in transliteration, but is still an anachronistic script for the ancient Iranians to have used. Roman transliteration is probably preferable in lieu of an image file utilizing an Avestan font. Khirad (talk) 20:06, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Avestan? 

message: The list appears wrong to me at least in the usual use of the term tributary. Tthe list contains some rivers which are just tributaries to the tributaries of the Indus (like Beas or Jhelum)---Kmhkmh (talk) 23:54, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: i removed now all rivers which are not direct tributaries to the Indus. In particular the 5 rivers (Jhelum,Chenab,Sutlej,Ravi,Beas) have been replaced by the Panjnad.--Kmhkmh (talk) 11:23, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Tributaries

message: The article mentions that the term "India" was used only for what is now Pakistan till the arrival of the British:
The word "India" is a reference to the Indus River. In ancient times, "India" referred to the region of modern-day Pakistan along the Indus river which traded extensively with the ancient world. It was only after the arrival of the British in the sixteenth century that name began to be applied to the entire region.
The above is incorrect. The word "India" has been used for most of what is now the Indian Subcontinent, since 300 BC. Megasthenes describes India as the land beyond the Indus, the Indus forming its western boundary.
B.C. c. 300. -- "India then (H( TOI/NUN *)INDIKH\) being four-sided in plan, the side which looks to the Orient and that to the South, the Great Sea compasseth; that towards the Arctic is divided by the mountain chain of Hēmōdus from Scythia, inhabited by that tribe of Scythians who are called Sakai; and on the fourth side, turned towards the West, the Indus marks the boundary, the biggest or nearly so of all rivers after the Nile." -- Megasthenes, in Diodorus, ii. 35. (From Müller's Fragm. Hist. Graec., ii. 402.)
and
c. 590. -- "As for the land of the Hind it is bounded on the East by the Persian Sea (i.e. the Indian Ocean), on the W. and S. by the countries of Islām, and on the N. by the Chinese Empire. . . . The length of the land of the Hind from the government of Mokrān, the country of Manṣūra and Bodha and the rest of Sind, till thou comest to Ḳannūj and thence passest on to Tobbat (see TIBET), is about 4 months, and its breadth from the Indian Ocean to the country of Ḳannūj about three months."-<-> Istakhri, pp. 6 and 11.
and 
" "Hind is surrounded on the East by Chín and Máchín, on the West by Sind and Kábul, and on the South by the Sea."-<-> Ibid. in Elliot, i. 45.
source
Junoon53 (talk) 20:49, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The word "India"

message: Is Shingo River a tributaire of the Indus river? Its article says that it merges with Suru River (Indus), which in turn merges with Dras River, but the article is not clear on where the merged river ends. --Enric Naval (talk) 23:17, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: According to various Himalaya guides that i checked via Google Books neither Shingo nor Suru are direct tributaries to the Indus, but the Dras is. The somewhat confusing entries that exists here and sometimes elsewhere are due to the fact that some sources (and at one point this article) simply listed tributaries to the Indus rivers system (=any major river whose water at some point reaches the Indus) rather than the actual tributaries to the Indus river itself. I attempted to fix that a while ago, but apparently I missed some or they were falsely introduced later on.--Kmhkmh (talk) 22:30, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  problem with 1 tributaire 

message: This section might be somewhat inappropriate in its current form, feel free to improve and shorten it or even to remove it altogether. However don't just blank the section without removing title. I reverted the blanking, may the next editor decide whether it is worth to fix the section or remove it completely.--Kmhkmh (talk) 22:30, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Indus River Day

message: The first paragraph is swamped with translations in multiple languages - is this really necessary given that Wikipedia has different language sections? 87.112.37.51 (talk) 05:50, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just done a quick count - sixteen alternate names in thirteen languages, with nine transliterations, and four more literal meanings. It could definitely do with being pared down, or having almost all the variant names moved into a "Naming" section, keeping two or three in the lead along with the English. The question is which ones to keep in the lead - any suggestions? Shimgray | talk | 23:12, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translations 

message: initial point of indus river ?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.113.101.242 (talk) 06:31, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  about indus river geography 

message: Do you know what would be nice? If the editors of wikipedia would use maps that actually demonstrate where a geographic entity is located in relation to the rest of the world. This page and every other one like it is useless without orientation.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.10.157.53 (talk) 18:10, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orienting Maps 

message: The Indus Valley is the region that the Indus river flows through, it's not a synonym for the Indus river.--Boxman88 (talk) 00:27, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Totally agree. Khestwol (talk) 02:32, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems sensible.  Are you volunteering to write it? 05:58, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree with you , "Valley" is a separate geographic entity and it deserves article. If you are interested then you start the article, I will later help you to improve that article. --Human3015 knock knock • 07:46, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indus Valley needs it's own article 

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message: The upper classes were treated very well and didn't have to work usually. The more lower classes had to work and pay their taxes. Farmers were the lowest class and they had to grow enough crops for their community and to stock up in stores. Farmers also had to pay their taxes in food. 99.177.216.75 (talk) 03:40, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Social structure 

message: I don't think the Sindh River is the only one which has a masculine form. Brahmaputra (son of Brahma) is masculine as well.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Solomonsunder (talk • contribs) 07:46, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brahmaputra is masculine as well 

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message: This Article claims in its etymology/naming section that Sindh... means "ocean".
In the article "hindustan" though you may find this sentence: "Hence, the Rigvedic sapta sindhava (the land of seven rivers) became hapta hindu in the Avesta." which seems to imply that Sindh... can also mean "river" and that seems to be more logical in the name of a ... river.
Any Sanskrit speakers around that could clarify it and/or put the correct version in the regarding article? --176.199.184.48 (talk) 13:24, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: Introduction says that river flows through India (Jammu and Kashmir) and Ladakh region of Jammu Kashmir. Now that Ladakh is a Union terriority of its own, independent from Jammu Kashmir, We should change it to "Ladakh" wherever required. 
Abhijithn207 (talk) 08:56, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: . The only mention of Jammu and Kashmir left is the 'See also' link to Rivers of Jammu and Kashmir. I will leave it to you to work on that page. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 10:08, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changing "Jammu and Kashmir" to "Ladakh" 

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Hindh river. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 May 24#Hindh river until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 13:28, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Hindh river" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: The Indus river is known as the Sindh Darya, Darya e Sindh and Mehran in Pakistan where it flows. Putting Sindhu at the head without Darya e Sindh is wrong since Darya e Sindh is a much more popular name in it's own land than Sindhu, which basically isn't even used anywhere except Sindh province.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mehtar10 (talk • contribs) 13:05, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: This is English Wikipedia, and the terms used in English language sources are our main concern. Please feel free to expand the Etymology and names section if you need to, while providing WP:RS. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 10:35, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

text: And "Sindhu" is of high historical importance, as it gave rise to various terms such as "Hindu", "Hindustan", "India" and most of all the name of "Sindh" itself! -- Kautilya3 (talk) 10:40, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition of the Indigenous Pakistani name  

message: The following coordinate fixes are needed for
31.305823,81.519635
—2401:4900:4BD0:31CF:1:0:B89C:759B (talk) 12:30, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: . I assume that you're referring to the coordinates of the river's source. The coordinates you suggest (which appear to be for one of the headwaters of the Sengge Zangbo) contradict the article's statement that the Indus "begins at the confluence of the Sengge Zangbo and Gar Tsangpo rivers". Without a source stating that the Sengge Zangbo is part of, rather than a tributary of, the Indus, changing the coordinates seems to be inadvisable. Deor (talk) 17:05, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinate error 

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thread_title:  "Hindhu river" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: I'm noting that I have made the lead paragraph and the infobox image and map identical to other major South Asian river, the Ganges.  I have rewritten the lead paragraph in the language of geography.  I have removed the disputed present-day national boundaries from the map of the Indus river course and basin.  I've added an iconic image that defines both the Indus and the Himalayas.  It is essential for a standard NPOV format.  I know admins don't like to be pinged about commonplace things, so I'm asking only that you keep an eye.   , , , , and  now and then. Also noting this for  and  Fowler&fowler«Talk» 22:36, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: PS I knew I was forgetting someone:  Probably others too, so apologies. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 22:41, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead paragraph and infobox images made identical to other South Asian rivers 

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message: "3,180 km (1,980 mi) as Mapped. 3,249 km (2,019 mi) actual as mentioned in History Books."
Confused by this. Does this mean it used to be 3,249 km? When? What history books? Why "actual"? Is it not fully mapped? -- Mocha2007 (talk) 11:04, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Length 

message: India shouldn't be listed along with China and Pakistan in the countries section of the infobox. The river doesn't run through India proper as it runs through China and Pakistan - it runs through the disputed territory of Kashmir, and by listing India in the countries section the article is pushing the POV that Kashmir is an integral part of India. You could replace India with "Indian administered Kashmir," or simply "Kashmir."
If India is to remain in the countries section, it should be italicized or a cross/star should be added to note that the river flows through a region where India's sovereignty is disputed. Joooshhh (talk) 16:18, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The infobox already says, directly below the names of the three countries, "Sovereignty in the Kashmir region is disputed". This strikes me as sufficient Furius (talk) 16:25, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the point is there's a false equivilance here. The river runs through internationally recognised parts of China and Pakistan but for India it only runs through a disputed territory, over which India's sovereignty is not recognised outside of India. Solblaze (talk) 14:11, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sovereignty of India over Kashmir 

message: Hello. Is there another page going more into detail about geography like the Indus Valley and other places? Because I think it could use more elaborating on. GoutComplex (talk) 16:53, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion about Indus Valley