With almost ten thousand glaciers in her territory, the need for a glacier atlas of India has been long felt. The present atlas is an attempt to provide a database on the number, size and shape of glaciers of India. It also explores various aspects of glacial processes and their impact on the Himalayan terrain in the form of glacier landforms. Documenting, as far as possible, each and every glacial landform in the Himalayas, along with rare photographs, was an important task in the production of this book.