India's 14 Major Snow-Fed Rivers

India has 14 major rivers primarily fed by Himalayan snow and glacial melt:

1. Indus - Trans-Himalayan, flows to Arabian Sea
2. Ganga (Ganges) - Central Himalaya, most sacred, flows to Bay of Bengal
3. Yamuna - Ganga's largest tributary, joins at Prayagraj
4. Brahmaputra - Trans-Himalayan, flows east then south through Bangladesh
5. Chenab - Indus tributary, largest by volume
6. Jhelum - Indus tributary, Kashmir Valley
7. Ravi - Indus tributary, Punjab
8. Beas - Indus tributary, Himachal/Punjab
9. Sutlej - Indus tributary, longest of the five Punjab rivers
10. Chambal - Yamuna tributary, central India
11. Betwa - Yamuna tributary, central India
12. Ken - Yamuna tributary, central India
13. Son - Ganga tributary, central India
14. Narmada - West-flowing, central India (rain-fed upper, snow-fed sources)

Note on Narmada

The Narmada's inclusion is debated—its upper reaches receive snowmelt from the Satpura Range, but it's primarily rain-fed. The first 10 (Indus system + Ganga/Yamuna/Brahmaputra) are unequivocally snow-fed.

These rivers sustain ~500 million people across the Indo-Gangetic Plain and beyond.