/ Ganges Content for 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis en /arts/blog/book-ganges-tells-words-photos <h2 class="heading--underline"><strong>History professor's book traces river from childhood to adulthood, and beyond</strong></h2> <p><a href="https://history.ucdavis.edu/people/ssen/#research">Sudipta Sen</a> visited Himalayan pilgrim towns along the Ganges River with his family as a 4-year-old, and ingested small teaspoons-full of its waters during ancestral rituals while growing up in India. It left a lasting impression, enough so that he went back many times, retracing stretches of its 1,500-plus miles.</p> March 12, 2019 - 2:33pm Karen Michele Nikos /arts/blog/book-ganges-tells-words-photos