Rivers are deeply embedded into the economic, social, political as well as cultural fabric of India. In many circumstances rivers have served as a means of linkage. However, there are instances when rivers were regarded as the source of disputes and contingencies. The origin of major rivers in India can be traced to the following there major watersheds:
• The Himalaya and the Karakoram ranges
• Vindhya and Satpura ranges and the Chota Nagpur Plateau in Central India
• Sahyadri or Western Ghats in western India
There are various factors that need to be taken into account while studying about rivers. Their vastness, number and distribution of tributaries, richness in terms of natural recourses and life forms as well as their geographical manoeuvring is intriguing and is a subject of various researches and studies. Rivers influence not only the place but also the people, their customs, practices, tradition and lifestyle. In many contexts, the idea of river put us in a paradox. For example, in India Rivers are worshiped. However, the same river is polluted for the sake of religion to submerse deities. Geography and culture have always been the topics of academic conundrum. The emerging interdisciplinary field of Cultural Ecology deals with the debates of human interactions on nature. Traditional studies were based on the notion that the physical environment formed the foundation for human activities. Geographical understanding of space and place has created a divide. (Dancing