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Encyclopedia Britannica



ROORKEE

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 707 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RON-SAC
ROORKEE , or RURKr, a town of British India, in the
Saharanpur
 
district
  of the United Provinces, on the Oudh &
Rohilkhand
  railway, 22 M. E. of
Saharanpur
 . Pop. (1901) 17,197. It is the headquarters of the workshops of the
Ganges
  canal, and also of the
Bengal
  Sappers and Miners. Two heavy batteries of artillery are usually stationed in the cantonment. The Thomason Civil Engineering College, founded in 1848, was transferred from the Public Works to the
Education
  Department in 1895 and reorganized. It was instituted in order to
train
  natives in engineering, and students originally received stipends. After 1875 the emoluments were limited, and became in the nature of scholarships, but the
education
  of all students, remained practically free till 1896, when fees began to be charged. The college works in co-operation with the workshops and foundry of the canal, and also trains in surveying, photography and other subjects, having chemical,
physical
 ,
electrical
  and mechanical laboratories and workshops.


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