AO Hume, Wayanad and a gold rush in 1878
Nov 6, 2024 4:38 AM IST
Hume had never been to Kerala, but his curiosity is believed to have been piqued by accounts from British surveyors and prospectors in the region
Hume wrote to Master that the Governor-General had deemed it necessary to thoroughly examine the gold-bearing rocks and deposits in Wayanad and Nilgiri and that he (Hume) was assigning mining engineer Brough Smyth to investigate. (Wikimedia Commons)
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