Abstract
Urdu prose made some headway at first, during the 17
th century. For a long time
Urdu writers were interested only in pure literary texts. They did not focus on the
disciplines of modern knowledge. After the rise of British power in India some
attention was paid, in the early 19th century, to a few scientific topics. This work
undertook privately in various parts of India. Meanwhile the British rulers also
realized that the people of the sub-continent should be taught modern scientific
subjects in their own language. In 1847, a Civil Engineering College (Later,
Thomason Engineering College) was established in Roorkee (Uttarakhand,
India). The purpose was to recruit and train overseers for public civil works.
Urdu was picked as the medium of instruction for local students in this College.
Engineering books were translated from English into Urdu. But it is also a fact
that, contribution of this College to technical and scientific prose in Urdu is ever
ignored and no remarkable effort has been made to acknowledge it. Rai Munnu
Lal was one of the translators and compilers of College. In the first part of this
article, a brief introduction of College is presented. Subsequently, contribution of
Rai Munnu Lal to technical and scientific prose in Urdu has been explained and
analyzed.
Sajid Sadiq Nazami. (2020) Rai Manu Lal Thompson, Civil Engineering College, Rudki An Anonymous Translater, Mayar , Volume 23-24, Issue-1.
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