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• James_Thomason abstract "James Thomason (born 3 May 1804, Great Shelford, near Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England died 27 September 1853, Bareilly, India) was a British colonial governor. He was British Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces in India and founder of a system of village schools.The son of a British clergyman stationed in Bengal, Thomason was educated in England, but he returned to India in 1822. He held numerous positions there, including magistrate-collector and settlement officer in Azamgarh (1832–37) and foreign secretary to the government of India (1842–43). In 1843 he was named Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces, and for the next 10 years he served in that post, improving communications, police protection, and social services. By 1853 he had also established a system of 897 locally supported elementary schools in centrally located villages that provided a vernacular education for children throughout the region. It was he who offered Mirza Ghalib a position of Urdu lecturer in a local college in Delhi in the times when the famous poet had hardly any work to survive. However he did not accept the offer as Mr. Thomason on the day of the interview made him wait for a while outside his office due to some unfinished work he was doing. Ghalib took this as an insult to his stature and did not bend even after Mr. Thomason's insistence for taking the job. He died on the day the Queen Victoria appointed him governor of Madras.It was James Thomason, who proposed the establishment of a College of Civil Engineering at Roorkee to train engineering personnel at various levels for public works of the country particularly for the construction work of the Ganges Canal which started in 1842. The aqueduct on the proposed Ganges Canal, which was an engineering challenge, was situated at Roorkee. Thus, the Roorkee College was started in 1847 when the concept of a college to train civil engineers as against military engineers was not entertained even in England. After the death of James Thomason in 1853, the College was very deservedly named as Thomason College of Civil Engineering in 1854. It was elevated to the First Technical University of India in 1949 as University of Roorkee and finally converted to an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in 2001 after being regarded as an institute of national importance by then HRD minister Mr. Murli Manohar Joshi. The road in front of the historic main building of IIT Roorkee is named after him as Thomason marg. The main building of IIT Roorkee was renamed to James Thomason Building in his honor by an act of the Board of Governors of the institute in December 2013".
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