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
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
The Periyar Dam was constructed in 1887 in what is now Kerala to divert water from the west-flowing Periyar River through a tunnel into the east-flowing Vaigai River to supply irrigation to the parched Madurai District. The Peranai Regulator was built across the Vagai in 1897 to supply canal irrigation to over 50,000 hectares in what is now Madu...
Created:
1900 - 1947
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
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
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
![View of the Ganges: from the P,hatuk [sic.] or Gate at the top of Punchgunga Ghat..](https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/9d40978959543c51df49a97b18bbfe4ffc7c9876.png "View of the Ganges: from the P,hatuk [sic.] or Gate at the top of Punchgunga Ghat..")
![View of the Geat Dagon Pagoda and ajacent [sic.] scenery taken on the eastern road from Rangoon.](https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/31627a0725a8c7cb14145da609b475ff7192888c.png "View of the Geat Dagon Pagoda and ajacent [sic.] scenery taken on the eastern road from Rangoon.")
