steam. tramways. in. Calcutta. There is evidence from the Institution of Civil Engineers'archives in London that Calcutta ... In 1881 Merryweather, the London-based manufacturer of steam-driven fire engines and early trams, received its ...
Author: Kartar Lalvani
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781472924841
Category: History
Page: 464
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The story of The Making of India begins in the seventeenth century, when a small seafaring island, one tenth the size of the Indian subcontinent, despatched sailing ships over 11,000 miles on a five-month trading journey in search of new opportunities. In the end they helped build a new nation. The sheer audacity and scale of such an endeavour, the courage and enterprise, have no parallel in world history. This book is the first to assess in a single volume almost all aspects of Britain's remarkable contribution in providing India with its lasting institutional and physical infrastructure, which continues to underpin the world's largest democracy in the twenty-first century.