Photograph from the Crofton Collection: 'Public works including the Manora Breakwater and the River Son canal system' taken in 1873. The Grand Trunk Road passed through Shahabad from south-east to north-west and was constructed between 1861 and 1862. Construction of the bridge took place as part of the Son Canal system works, an irrigation project to combat famine in an area dependent upon agriculture. Initiated by Colonel C.H. Dickens in 1853
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