Henry George Raverty

Henry George Raverty (31 May 1825 – 20 October 1906) was a Cornish officer and linguist in the British Indian Army.

Quotes

 * ‘Sursuti [Sarsuti] is the name of a river, the ancient Saraswatī . . . Sutlaj [Sutlej] was a tributary of the Hakrā or Wahindāh’... (The Hakra’s drying up, which according to Raverty took place in the fourteenth century CE,) ‘reduced a vast extent of once fruitful country to a howling wilderness, and thus several flourishing cities and towns became ruined or deserted by their inhabitants’.
 * Raverty, H.G., ‘The Mihrān of Sind and Its Tributaries: A Geographical and Historical Study’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 61, no. 1 & extra number (1892), pp. 155-206 & 297-508. quoted in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.