The Ganges (Hindi Ganga, Devanāgarī: , as in most Indian languages)'s one of the major rivers of the Indian subcontinent, flowing east through the Gangetic Plain of northern India into Bangladesh. The river rises in the western Himalayas in the Uttarakhand state of India, and drains into the Sunderbans delta in the Bay of Bengal. It's long been considered a holy river by Hindus and worshiped as the goddess Ganga in Hinduism. It's also been important historically: many former provincia… (More on Ganges)