Roorkee

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Roorkee
Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates:
Altitude: 268 m (879 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Roorkee
State/Province: Uttarakhand
Country: India
Transport links

Home of Thomason College for Military Engineers studying to join the Public Works Department and Headquarters for the Bengal Sappers and Royal Engineers in Bengal

External links

  • William Holmes, later Lt. Col. John David William Holmes MC, born 1877, in his Autobiography , Chapter 2 (from The Progonion) describes a year studying at the Civil and Military Engineering College at Roorkee c 1897 ( scroll about a third of the way down the page)
  • India and Indian Engineering by Major J G Medley 1873 ex Principal of Thomason College, Roorkee. Good overview of the training, life and work of engineers in India