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Know Your City: How military engineer John Blakiston shaped Bengaluru’s Cantonment
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The Indian Express
As such, its construction was overseen by a military engineer, John Blakiston, who served in the East India Company military from 1802 to 1814.
In the early 1800s, he was ordered to Bengaluru to prepare the establishment of a cantonment on a “large scale”.
Blakiston also gave us early insight into the culture of the cantonment, at least from a British point of view.
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He also noted that British officers, “carried themselves too high with the native officers, and did not encourage their visits”.