Indian Engineer (sold)
The Indian Engineer (c. 1858 – 1987) was a technical periodical published in Calcutta. It was originally titled The Engineer's Journal and Railway and Public Works Chronicle of India and the Colonies and was closely related to a monthly publication The Indian and Eastern Engineer.
The infrastructure of colonialism in South Asia.
1895 Corrected to 1898 'The Indian engineer' map of India : shewing railways, canals, irrigation works, rivers, etc.
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This is a unique and very large 1898 map of India, highlighting rail and irrigation infrastructure across the Raj. The map depicts India amid a railway and irrigation building boom that saw incredible feats of engineering and the tying together of distant corners of the Raj, but also enhanced colonial control and exploitation. (more details)