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Small Collections Box 16

Papers of T.I.S. Mackay

The story of a major ‘incident’ in the work of an officer of the Public Works Department, in the Province of Madras, and other interesting sidelights on the work of that department prior to the grant of Independence. 1930.

Description of mending leakage in the Periyar Dam and visit of H.E. The Viceroy, Lord Irwin, to the Maharajah of Travancore; incidents connected with Public Works Department and the tribal population, mostly Ooralie. Photographs.