The Tista

This is the westernmost right bank tributary of the Brahmaputra. Rising from Kanchenjunga, it is a wild mountain torrent in the Darjeeling Hills with a number of tributaries like the Rangpo, Rangit, and Sevak. Situated on its bank, the Jalpaiguri town, was completely swept away in the flood of 1968. At present, river Tista joins the Brahmaputra river in Bangladesh. It shifted its course substantially in the flash flood of 1787, prior to which it used to make a confluence with the Ganga.