Hi again

Say Hi to Madras Harbour, the Mega structures at that time with lot of Expertise from British East India Companies foreign Counterparts like America, England and France as well joined hands to build the Madras Port which now the Madras Harbour, not for our welfare but for their materialistic need. They found lot of wealth like Spices, Natural Resource and Kohinoor Diamond as well. So they need some way to take it out to their country, So came the Port of Madras with the Help of these People

IN INDIA.

UMBRIDGE & Co., Bombay.

M. GULAB SINGH & SONS, Mufid-I-Am Press, Lahore.

E. SEYMOUR HALE, 53, Esplanade Road, Fort, Bombay.

HIGGINBOTHAM & Co., Mount Road, Madras.

NEWMAN & Co., Calcutta.

SUPERINTENDENT, AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSION PRESS, Rangoon.

THACKER & Co. (Limited), Bombay.

THACK.ER, SPINK & Co., Calcutta.

IN ENGLAND,

B. A. ARNOLD, 37, Bedford Street, Strand, London, W.C.

CONSTABLE & Co., 2, Whitehall Gardens, London, S.W.

DEIGHTON, BELL & Co., Cambridge.

P. 8. KING & SON, 9, Bridge Street, Westminster, London, S.W.

SAMPSON Low, MARSTON & Co., St. Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane,

London, E.G.

LUZAC & Co., 46, Great Russell Street, London, W.C.

KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & Co., Charing Cross Road, London, W.C.

B. QVARITCH, 15, Piccadilly, London, W.

WILLIAMS & NORGATE, Oxford.

ON THE CONTINENT.

FRIEDLANDER & SOHN, 11, Carlstrasse, Berlin.

OTTO HARRASSOWITZ, Leipzig.

KARL W. HIERSEMANN, Leipzig.

ERNEST LEROUX, 28, Rue Bonaparte, Paris.

MARTINUS NIJHOFF, The Hague, Holland.

A. T. MACKENZIE, M.INST.C.E.,

Local Consulting Engineer to the Madras Harbour

With more than 20,000 employed on the first go, everyone thought it was prestigious to work for a port. Without knowing that they are digging the own grave for their country. First they discussed to put the port 45 miles north of Madras, but dismissed the idea on the ground of the futility of expecting to divert the trade of an old- established city to a new port. With Estimated cost of Rs. 1,06,20,325 to construct the first phase actually it went 3 times more for the 1^st phase alone b’coz of the mistake from an engineering team. Anyways it’s not their money it all ours; keep collecting the taxes from us and keep mistaking the engineering decisions. All the Tax rules were bent and restructured to the take more taxes to coupe the increasing expenses. This mistake the documentation which claims because of the French engineer cost also 1200 lives and 3 missing. Costly Mistake……

Another Interesting fact is that the proposal was submitted on 1660’s for the construction of the port and they kept on discussing discussing and discussing and finally after 100 years they said ok proceed the construction started in 1740’s and completed in 16^th January 1869 and Submitted a Document named “Official Paper of Construction of Madras Port” which is only available rarely. It’s actually the same French Engineer who made the mistake made a complete manuscript. It’s actually in three places (Higginbotham’s gov collection; California Some Library and in Internet). Anyway its their official releases don’t worry….

Need the complete document… mail me at gowtham.siddharth@gmail.com …

See ya.