A headworks was built at Arappalayam (completed 1892?) to provide irrigation water around Madurai and provide Madurai City, in what is now Tamil Nadu, with a reliable water supply.
Created:
1900 - 1947
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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.
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
Contributed By:
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
Contributed By:
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
Contributed By:
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
Contributed By:
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
Contributed By:
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
Contributed By:
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
Contributed By:
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
Contributed By:
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
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
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![Procession of the Tazecas [sic.]: During the Moohurrum at the P,hatman [sic.], a Moosulman Burying Ground, Benares.](https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/81c30e2732ed564072ed86a13abfb627313374e6.png "Procession of the Tazecas [sic.]: During the Moohurrum at the P,hatman [sic.], a Moosulman Burying Ground, Benares.")
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