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Description: | Photograph of the Mir Alam Tank, Hyderabad, from the Macnabb Collection (Col James Henry Erskine Reid): Album of Indian views taken in c.1902-03. The Mir Alam Tank was built by French engineers and named after Mir Alam, the prime minister of the Nizam of Hyderabad from 1804-1808. It shows impressive engineering with 21 arches holding over 20.7 square km (8 square miles) of water. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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