This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic ... India embraces a sprawling network of waters, from the muddy tributaries of the Indus in the west to the banks of the sacred ...

The 248-mile (400-kilometer) Salt Satyagraha march lasted from March 12 to April 5 and instigated widespread resistance to British rule of India ... the National Geographic book Sacred Places ...

The autumnal Ganges floods had receded at Allahabad, baring a five-square-mile mud flat where three sacred rivers join—the ... a raised platform draped in India’s tricolor flag.

Pilgrims come from across India and around the world to bathe in the water where the two sacred rivers meet. Such mass bathing in the Ganges has been recorded for more than 2,500 years.