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After
the devastating famine of 1770, which killed nearly 10 million people
in regions of Bengal, Bihar and modern day Bangladesh, Warren Hastings,
then Governor-General of India, ordered the construction of this beehive
shaped structure for the purpose of storing grains for the British
Army.[2] It was conceived and built by Captain John Garstin, an engineer
with the East India Company,[3] and has a storage capacity of 140000
tons, it construction was completed on 20 July 1786.
A drive to improve the appearance of the structure was begun in 2002
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