The Indian Posts & Telegraphs Department set up this telegraph workshop at Alipore, Calcutta in early 1855 as a repair workshop, and gradually it started production of Telegraph and Telecom equipment. This workshop supplied Telegraph/Telecom materials throughout India (including the territory of Burma prior to 1937). This is one of a set of 45 p...
Created:
1920 - 1929
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
Quetta is the capital and largest city of what is now Baluchistan Province of Pakistan. In 1935 it was a major British cantonment city with 12,000 troops and a total population of around 70,000. At 3:03 AM on May 31st, an earthquake struck Quetta, reducing the city to rubble, destroying towns and villages to the south and leaving 30 to 60 thousa...
Created:
1935
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
Mughal Emporer Mohammad Shah (1714-1748) built the Eastern Yamuna (Jumna) Canal, which the British reworked in the 19th Century. The Yamuna River emerges from the hills near Tajewala in what is now Ambala District, Haryana. The Tajewala Barrage directs the flow of water into the Eastern Yamuna Canal, supplying irrigation to Uttar Pradesh (UP), a...
Created:
1910
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
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