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|presidency= [[Bengal (Presidency)|Bengal]]
|image= The Bazar Roorkee.jpg
|coordinates=[https://www.google.com/maps/place/29°52'29.5%22N+77°53'23.7%22E/@29.874858,77.889928,12z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d29.874858!4d77.889928?hl=en 29.874858°N 77.889928°E]
|altitude= 268 m (879 ft)
|presentname= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roorkee Roorkee]
}}
'''Roorkee''' was the headquarters of the tahsil of the same name and a cantonnement in Saharanpur District, [[United Provinces Districts|United Provinces]]. Home of Thomason College for Military Engineers studying to join the [[Public Works Department]] and Headquarters for the [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Bengal Sappers ]] and Royal Engineers in [[Bengal]].
The establishment of Thomason College at Roorkee in 1847 was linked to the construction of the Upper Ganga Canal, the most important irrigation project being undertaken at the time. In his propoasal submitted to Government, the Lt .Governor James Thomason, had justified the location on the basis that the establishment forming at Roorkee, near the Solani Aqueduct on the Ganga Canal, afforded particular facilities for instructing Civil Engineers.<ref>[http://rurkiu.tripod.com/uor/wtandm.html Water Resources Development: The Role of Roorkee] University of Roorkee.</ref>
==Spelling variants==
Modern name: Roorkee, Rourkee, <br>Variants: Rourke/Rurki
==External links==
*[http://1cha.co.uk/2.html William Holmes], later Lt. Col. John David William Holmes MC, born 1877, in his [http://1cha.co.uk/9.html 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===
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V21_330.gif Roorkee Town] Imperial Gazetteer
*[http://archive.org/stream/accountofroorkee00agrarich#page/n5/mode/2up ''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
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/376/mode/2up "Roorkee"] page 377 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org
== References ==
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