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

Chapter 2: SYLLABUS OF LECTURES.
By J. G. Medley
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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.

SYLLABUS OF LECTURES.

India—its area—physical features—climate—scenery. The People—Bengalees—languages—Hindooism—caste—conservatism of the East—the Mahomedans—Sikhs—Parsees. The English in India—their difficulties—the Anglo-Indian career—the mutiny—Christianity in India—arts and manufactures—general character of the people. Anglo-Indian life—in the station—in tents—cost of living—society in India—travelling—a tour in India.

The Indian Government—the Public Works Department. Roorkee—the Thomason College—the Sappers and Miners—the workshops—career of a Royal Engineer—military engineering—miscellaneous duties of the Indian engineer—financial aspects of the Public Works Department—overseers—native subordinates—workmen.

Building materials—stone—bricks—tiles—limes—timber—iron—wages and rates—weights and measures—absence of plant—water-raising machines—carts. Foundations—well-cylinders—Indian rivers.

Barracks—difficulties of ventilating and cooling—private houses—churches—other buildings. Bridges—temporary—permanent—waterway. Roads—metalling—hill roads. Railways—various lines—the permanent way—traffic arrangements. Irrigation Works—their importance—the Ganges Canal—crops and soils—design of canals—the head—velocity of stream—falls and rapids—drainage works—irrigation details—Madras weirs—tanks. River Works—inundations—spurs.

Indian Survey Department—the Great Trigonometrical survey—Topographical survey—Revenue survey.