Bhatnagar's - Kothi Burj Mahal (Meerut)

India / Uttar Pradesh / Mirat / Meerut
Artitistically built house dating back to 1912. Located almost in the centre of Meerut city. Helps people locate many hospitals and clinics around

The Kothi Burj Mahal was built by Kripa Shankar Verma, in 1911 (the year of Coronation Durbar of King George V in India).

Shri Kripa Shankar Verma was then Executive Engineer in Public Works Department of the Government of the then United Provinces (one of the few Indians who could rise to the gazetted ranks of government service under the British). He was a civil engineering graduate of 1898 vintage from the Thomson College of Engineering.

The Thomson College was the first engineering college in the British Empire, set up in 1847 in Roorkee. The College was later known as the University of Roorkee and is now known as the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee.

The United Provinces was rechristened as Uttar Pradesh post independence (1947).

Roorkee is located in the foothills of Himalays, 180 km north of New Delhi and around 120 km north of Meerut. Roorkee is now in the state of Uttaranchal, which was created in 2000.

Incidentally, Meerut (an important army garrison town) is the city where the fire of the first freedom struggle broke out 150 years ago in 1857 against the British East India Company. Today Meerut has a population of nearly 2 million.
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Coordinates:   28°58'58"N   77°42'30"E

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  • it is a very important historical building in meerut it has a great architecture more than 100 years old and after many natural calamities it is intact. it is good if there is any processor to add in archaeological survey of india. it is a heritage of meerut in western up (india). Regards Ravi kashyap meerut
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