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

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)
  • 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