India and Indian Engineering. / Three lectures delivered at the Royal Engineer Institute, Chatham, in July 1872

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The lectures offer an engineer’s overview of the subcontinent’s physical features, climate, and peoples, describe Anglo-Indian life, and explain government organization and the Public Works Department. They outline the duties, training, and probable career of engineer officers while surveying practical construction matters: building materials and methods, foundations, barracks, churches, bridges, roads, railways, irrigation and river works, and the role of the surveying and trigonometrical operations. Practical considerations such as wages, local plant limitations, water-raising machines, and regional variations in design and maintenance are discussed to guide those preparing for service there.

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