Roorkee
| Roorkee | |
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| Presidency: Bengal | |
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| Altitude: | 268 m (879 ft) |
| Present Day Details | |
| Place Name: | Roorkee |
| State/Province: | Uttarakhand |
| Country: | India |
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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
Spelling variants
Roorkee, Rourkee, Rurki
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)
Historical books online
- Account of Roorkee College established for the instruction of civil engineers, with a scheme for its enlargement.Printed by order of the ... lieutenant governor of the North Western Provinces. 1851 Archive.org
- 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. Archive.org
- Bhagirathi - The Institute Repository of IIT Roorkee in the Archives collection of the Central Library has books and documents relating to Rourkee and Engineering which may be downloaded as pdfs. As an example searching for Roorkee gives the following publications