GR Blane
East India Company employee
About GR Blane
Lived 1791 – 1821 (aged 29–30).
G. R. Blane (1791–1821) was an employee of the East India Company in British India.
Ancestry George Rodney Blane was born in 1791 to Sir Gilbert Blane, and died aged 30 years on 1 May 1821. part of the East India Company’s Bengal Army and predecessors of the Indian Army Corps of Engineers Bengal Engineer Group. He surveyed Cuttack, Nepal, foothills of Himalaya and he desilted and remodeled Western Yamuna Canal.
Western Yamuna Canal
The earlier Prithviraj Chauhan era or possibly earlier, pre-existing canal was dug out and renovated in 1335 CE by Firuz Shah Tughlaq, excessive silting caused it to stop flowing in 1750 CE, the British Raj undertook a three-year renovation and remodeling of Western Yamuna Canal in 1817 by Blane or Bengal Engineer Group, he died in 1821 CE and in 1832-33 Tajewala Barrage dam at Yaumna was built to regulate the flow of water.
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Who was GR Blane?
East India Company employee (1791–1821)
When was GR Blane born?
GR Blane was born in 1791.
When did GR Blane die?
GR Blane died in 1821.
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