page_title: History of Uttarakhand
section_title: British Colonial period
hierarchical_section_title: History of Uttarakhand / British Colonial period
caption_attribution_description: English: The main senate building of the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, formerly, the Thomason College of Civil Engineering, founded 1847, the oldest engineering college in India.
context_page_description: Uttarakhand, India. Literally Northern Land or Section in Sanskrit, the name of Uttarakhand finds mention in the early Hindu scriptures as the combined region of Kedarkhand and Manaskhand.
  Uttarakhand was the ancient Puranic term for the central stretch of the Indian Himalayas. Its peaks and valleys were well known in ancient times as the abode of gods and goddesses and source of the Ganges River. Around 200 B.C Khas Aryan people entered the Himalayan range all the way from Caucasus Mountains, Unlike Vedic Aryan who took southern, western, and eastern route, Khas Aryan took whole new route of walking northern route of great Himalaya from Caucasus Mountains of Europe to North-Western Himalayas. Today, it is often called "the Land of the Gods" because of the presence of a multitude of Hindu pilgrimage spots. Uttarakhand is known as Devbhumi from ancient times. The Pauravas, Kushanas, Kunindas, Guptas, Katyuris, Palas, the Chands, and Parmars or Panwars, Shahs and the British have ruled Uttarakhand in turns.
caption: IIT Roorkee was established as Thomason College of Civil Engineering in 1847.
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