The reason India's population is so high is because of those very river systems.
The rivers allow for life and growth. The growth itself is however chaotic and destructive.
Might I remind you that only a century ago, most European countries had fertility rates of 3 to 4, and that most of your grandparents had several siblings
Yes but Europe has always had a different approach to managing that growth. The families were and in many places still are close knit and cooperative. However you appear to lack the understanding of what "community" means to an European.
Historically European farmers in many nations who had free farmers would band into agrarian cooperatives, combining their agricultural potentials for more sustainable growth.
In agrarian communities and many cities the communal aspect of European culture is exhibited in for example the way an apartment building would have residential councils and cooperatives where the residents would have a communal resource pool for keeping the roofing secure and maintained, for deratization and general pest control, for the upkeep of storage facilities like garages and basements, for cleaning and securing roads during winter. And to build upon that concept an apartment block would band together to keep their green areas and communal parks and playgrounds clean and maintained.
Villages would install a water distribution system that would be communally maintained in order to ensure all farmers get their share of water. The examples are myriad and diverse but omnipresent from Eastern to Western Europe.
Whatever "community" might mean in India I fail to see it's productive value. Most likely because it stems from a culturally broken prism that makes it a sort of subsistence community that is flawed and undeveloped, more importantly it builds on the inherent values of the Indian man. A house is only as good as its building material. India in that regards appears to be severely lacking.
This is categorically false
In it's totality. Yes.
However here, let's make a comparison. The railway network map from colonial India in 1909 as opposed to the modern one. The differences are negligent.
But I'll list some anyway: the Golden Temple in Punjab, the Hawa Mahal in Rajasthan, the Sun Temple in Gujarat and the Meenakshi Temple in Tamil Nadu.
Other than the Hawa Mahal I'm well aware of the other ones, the thing is they fall into that rough category of not 500 years old and vaguely modern.
China succeeded in spite of this and their Cultural Revolution
China succeeded in part because of the same revolution.
Sure it obliterated many aspects of traditional China, but it was their internal matter, and it allowed them to root out many of their backwards cultural facets, providing a clean slate for growth and modernization, not just of technology but of their own culture as well.
More importantly China succeeds in comparison to India because of their epigenetic fundament as well as racial and cultural differences.
Observe. Side by side we will compare the capital cities, an important costal port city, an interior city, villages and food stands. Somehow I feel I won't need to point out which is China and which is India.
Do you notice anything in particular?
hinese/Indian cities". The only way you make your villages "orderly" is by AI generated pictures on the first fucking page. 
