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Roorkee is a town and a Municipal council in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
It is located on the banks of the Ganga canal on the National highway-58 between Delhi and Manna Pass, at a distance of 30 km from the Hindu pilgrimage city of Haridwar.
Roorkee was the capital of a Moghul Mahal during the time of Akbar, as is referred in Ain-e-Akbari, authored by Abul Fazal.
During the 18th century, it came under the rule of Landhaura state, till the death of its Gujjar king, Raja Ramdaval in 1813 and later, became a part of the territories of the British East India Company.
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