Notes on the Geography of Northern India: Roorkee Cemetery and Hardwar GhatsJust happened to be passing through, was startled by the cemetery, and had to stop at the nearby bathing ghats. Make default image size larger ![]() Roorkee, where the Ganges emerges from the Himalaya, was the logical place for the British to put an engineering college: after all, it's the locatiosn of the headworks of the Ganges Canal. Stands to reason that Roorkee soon had a cemetery. ![]() Overgrown. ![]() Here's one that's accessible. Students at the famous engineering college were dying of cholera. ![]() Too much studying can do that? ![]() Could an engineer have had a hand in this one? ![]() Yes, indeed. The epitaph might have read, "Stayed On." ![]() A few miles away, bathers have come to the sacred water. ![]() It's very cold. ![]() And swift, which is why the posts are there. ![]() The water itself is silty. Or, as a bather says, "very dirty but very pure." ![]() Back a couple of blocks in the crowded city, there's an opening for visitors' cars. ![]() Very dirty but very pure? |
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