The Construction of British India 1690-1860.
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29 Feb
2024
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Community Engagement
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Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
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Image: The semaphore tower at Barrackpore House, c. 1816 by Colonel Robert Smith
Little has been written about the military engineers employed by the East India Company. Their work ranged from map-making, land surveying, fortifications, building silk factories, manufacturing gunpowder and minting coinage, to establishing communications by semaphore, telegraph, steamships and railways. They developed cantonments and hill stations, both previously unknown in the subcontinent. This seminar examines how these men, many of them untrained, substantially changed the face of India and brought with them Enlightenment values.
Session One: The Company’s engineers
Session Two: How India was changed
Online Platform: ZOOM
Duration -
February 29, 2024
Timing: 6:30 - 8:45 pm IST
Fees
Rs. 1,000
Registrations Closed
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Dr. Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, MBE studied Urdu and Hindi at SOAS, London. She completed a PhD in 1980 subsequently published as A Fatal Friendship: the Nawabs, the British and the City of Lucknow. Author of numerous articles and books on colonial India including a trilogy on Major General Claude Martin. Her new book Empire Building: The Construction of British India 1690-1860 is an unbiased look at the physical changes wrought by the East India Company. Rosie lectures extensively in Britain and abroad and was awarded an MBE in 2015 for services to the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (BACSA) and British Indian Studies.