ABSTRACT
Since its origin, the Jalangi River and its basin are experiencing anthropogenic imprints on its landscape. With the passes of time, especially after the mid-nineteenth century, the natural deterioration of the river was accompanied by accelerated human intervention within the basin and the river channel. Agricultural expansion, channel training and bank protection, increased density of roads railways and embankment network, multiplying growth of brick-fields after 2000, bāndh across the river for easier and heavier ferry service, encroachment and fragmentation of river channel, different fishing practices, Farakka barrage and consequent lowering of downstream water level for entering into Jalangi offtake, landfilling and excavation – all have put substantive and significant anthropogeomorphic signature on the basin and channel geomorphology of the river Jalangi.
