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'''Ambala''' was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V05_284.gif Ambala District] in the Delhi Division of [[Punjab|Punjab Province]] during the British period.The Ambala Cantonment was established in 1843 after the British abandoned its cantonment at [[Karnal]], following the malaria epidemic of 1841-42. | '''Ambala''' was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V05_284.gif Ambala District] in the Delhi Division of [[Punjab|Punjab Province]] during the British period.The Ambala Cantonment was established in 1843 after the British abandoned its cantonment at [[Karnal]], following the malaria epidemic of 1841-42. | ||
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==FIBIS resources== | ==FIBIS resources== | ||
*[ | *[https://gallery.fibis.org/picture.php?/624/search/5858 Photograph: Church, Amballa Cantonment] from the FIBIS Gallery Album [http://gallery.fibis.org/index.php?/category/17 Railways / NWR/ H V O WATERS Collection] | ||
*[http://gallery.fibis.org/picture.php?%2F1070%2Fcategory%2F26 Postcard: St Pauls, Ambala] Sidney Malins Collection, FIBIS Gallery | |||
*[http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=887&s_id=264 Images: Ambala Cantonment Cemetery] FIBIS database. Includes a photograph of a memorial erected by the [[21st Hussars]] in 1869 | |||
*[https://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=2063&s_id=887 Ambala Cantonment Cemetery Index of Memorials] Searchable database of names and images. | |||
==Churches== | ==Churches== | ||
The cantonment church is called St Paul's and it has a large graveyard and war memorial. St Paul’s Church, ‘an edifice which has been much admired’ was designed by Captain George Atkinson of the Bengal Engineers, according to this [http://www.archive.org/stream/balladsofburmaan00oolarich#page/4/mode/2up Archives,org link]. He was the author of ''Curry & rice' on forty plates : or, The ingredients of social life at 'our station' in India'', published 1860, refer [[Society reading list#Other aspects of society|Society reading list]], which may have been based on life in the cantonment at Umballa. | The cantonment church is called St Paul's and it has a large graveyard and war memorial. St Paul’s Church, ‘an edifice which has been much admired’ was designed by Captain George Atkinson of the Bengal Engineers, according to this [http://www.archive.org/stream/balladsofburmaan00oolarich#page/4/mode/2up Archives,org link]. He was the author of ''Curry & rice' on forty plates : or, The ingredients of social life at 'our station' in India'', published 1860, refer [[Society reading list#Other aspects of society|Society reading list]], and [[Ambala#Historical books online|Historical books online, below]] which may have been based on life in the cantonment at Umballa. | ||
St Paul's Church was bombed in 1965 and is now in ruins. | St Paul's Church was bombed in 1965 and is now in ruins. | ||
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[http://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/cemetery.php?cemetery=1775&scrwidth=1834 List and images of graves at Ambala Christian cemetery] www.gravestonephotos.com (Scroll down for list) | [http://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/cemetery.php?cemetery=1775&scrwidth=1834 List and images of graves at Ambala Christian cemetery] www.gravestonephotos.com (Scroll down for list) | ||
==External | Also see "Historical books online", below. | ||
==Boer War period== | |||
During the Boer War there was a Prisoner of War Camp at Ambala. See [[POW Camps in India]]. | |||
==First World War== | |||
There was a Young Officers’ School at Ambala c 1917-1919. This appears to have been associated with a similar School at [[Subathu]]<ref>[https://gillww1.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/school-of-instruction-for-officers-sabathu-ambala-1917-to-1918/ "School of Instruction for Officers, Sabathu & Ambala, 1917 to 1919"] September 13, 2012. Gill family’s service in the First World War. gillww1</ref> and it seems likely that Subathu was the summer location of this School. | |||
==External links== | |||
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V05_295.gif Ambala City] Imperial Gazetteer of India | *[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V05_295.gif Ambala City] Imperial Gazetteer of India | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambala Ambala] Wikipedia | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambala Ambala] Wikipedia | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambala_Cantonment Ambala Cantonment] Wikipedia | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambala_Cantonment Ambala Cantonment] Wikipedia | ||
*[http://revenueharyana.gov.in/ | *[http://revenueharyana.gov.in/Reprinted-Old-British-Gazetteers Government of Haryana: Reprinted Old British Gazetteers]. Previously part of Bengal. Haryana Government website. Includes Ambala District 1883-84, 1892, 1923-24, the latter available as a searchable pdf. revenueharyana.gov.in | ||
*[http://mangalorean.com/browsearticles.php?arttype=Travelogue&articleid= | *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160307154843/http://mangalorean.com/browsearticles.php?arttype=Travelogue&articleid=433 St Paul’s Church Ambala] by Ramesh Lalwani 4 December 2005 mangalorean.com, now archived. | ||
*[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140406/spectrum/main5.htm "A peep into the history of Ambala"] by Lt Gen Ranjit Singh (retd) April 6, 2014. tribuneindia.com (retrieved 21 April 2014). The Ambala Cantt with tree-lined roads and open spaces owes its origin to Capt Robert Napier, a Bengal Sappers officer | *[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140406/spectrum/main5.htm "A peep into the history of Ambala"] by Lt Gen Ranjit Singh (retd) April 6, 2014. tribuneindia.com (retrieved 21 April 2014). The Ambala Cantt with tree-lined roads and open spaces owes its origin to Capt Robert Napier, a Bengal Sappers officer. | ||
*[http://www.rafweb.org/Stations/Stations-A.htm#Ambala RAF Ambala] rafweb.org (retrieved 1 July 2014) | *[http://www.rafweb.org/Stations/Stations-A.htm#Ambala RAF Ambala] rafweb.org (retrieved 1 July 2014) | ||
===Historical books online=== | ===Historical books online=== | ||
*Umballa in 1845 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bcwoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA527 Missionary Register for 1845], page 527 Google Books | *Umballa in 1845 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bcwoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA527 Missionary Register for 1845], page 527 Google Books | ||
*[https://archive.org/details/cavalryexperien00ouvrgoog ''Cavalry Experiences and Leaves from My Journal''] by Colonel H A Ouvry 1892 Archive.org. The author was an officer in the [[3rd Light Dragoons]], and later the [[9th Lancers]], and was based at Umballa at various periods 1846-1859 | |||
*''"Curry & Rice," on Forty Plates, or, The Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India'' by George Francklin Atkinson, with Forty Chapters, each with an Illustration (which may rotated in the Hathi Trust versions) [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951001679470b?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 1st Edition 1858] Hathi Trust, [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c3021302?urlappend=%3Bseq=8 2nd Edition 1859] Hathi Trust, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZFxNAAAAcAAJ&pg=PT5 3rd Edition 1860] Google Books. The author was in the Bengal Engineers, and from 1854 was Executive Engineer of the Umballa Division | |||
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ESBcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA213 "Topographical and Sanitary Report on Umballa and its vicinity, Upper India"] by Dr Kendal, Surgeon, H. M.’s 7th Hussars, page 213 ''Army Medical Department: Statistical Sanitary and Medical Reports for the year 1859'' (published 1861) Google Books | *[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ESBcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA213 "Topographical and Sanitary Report on Umballa and its vicinity, Upper India"] by Dr Kendal, Surgeon, H. M.’s 7th Hussars, page 213 ''Army Medical Department: Statistical Sanitary and Medical Reports for the year 1859'' (published 1861) Google Books | ||
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/380/mode/2up Umballa] page 380 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org | |||
*[https://archive.org/details/openingmeerutan00compgoog ''Opening of the Meerut and Umballa Section of the Delhi Railway, on the 14th of November, 1868''] Archive.org | |||
*Umballa is mentioned in [http://www.archive.org/stream/aroundworldonbic02stevrich#page/298/mode/2up/search/Umballa ''Around the world on a bicycle Volume 2: From Teheran to Yokohama''], page 299 by Thomas Stevens 1888 Archive.org | *Umballa is mentioned in [http://www.archive.org/stream/aroundworldonbic02stevrich#page/298/mode/2up/search/Umballa ''Around the world on a bicycle Volume 2: From Teheran to Yokohama''], page 299 by Thomas Stevens 1888 Archive.org | ||
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2740836?urlappend=%3Bseq=63 "Ambala District"] page 33 A list of inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan possessing historical or archaeological interest Part 1 by Miles Irving (1910) HathiTrust Digital Library | |||
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.115692 ''Gazetteer of Ambala District, 1883-84'']. A volume in the series of Punjab District Gazetteers. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. | |||
**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.115692/2015.115692.Gazetteers-Of-Ambala-District-1883-84#page/n81/mode/2up/search/Cantonment The cantonment], page 64 | |||
:[https://archive.org/details/2020102689_202106/mode/2up ''Punjab District Gazetteers Volume VII Part A Ambala District 1923-24'']. 1998 reprint of 1925 original. Archive.org. | |||
*[https://archive.org/details/fringeofclouds0036livi/page/n5 ''Fringe of the Clouds''] by Air Marshal Sir Philip Livingston 1962 Archive.org Lending Library. Includes [https://archive.org/details/fringeofclouds0036livi/page/96 "Chapter 5 India with the Royal Air Force 1920-1922"] page 97. The author was a medical officer with the RAF, based at Ambala. There is a description of the cantonment [https://archive.org/details/fringeofclouds0036livi/page/104 page 105]. | |||
==References== | |||
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Latest revision as of 00:44, 22 August 2022
| Ambala | |
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| Presidency: Bengal | |
| Coordinates: | 30.38°N 76.78°E |
| Altitude: | 264 m (866 ft) |
| Present Day Details | |
| Place Name: | Ambala |
| State/Province: | Haryana |
| Country: | India |
| Transport links | |
| North Western Railway | |
| FibiWiki Maps | |
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| See our interactive map of this location showing places of interest during the British period | |
| [xxxxx Ambala] |
Ambala was the headquarters of Ambala District in the Delhi Division of Punjab Province during the British period.The Ambala Cantonment was established in 1843 after the British abandoned its cantonment at Karnal, following the malaria epidemic of 1841-42.
Spelling Variants
Modern spelling: Ambala
Variants: Umballa
FIBIS resources
- Photograph: Church, Amballa Cantonment from the FIBIS Gallery Album Railways / NWR/ H V O WATERS Collection
- Postcard: St Pauls, Ambala Sidney Malins Collection, FIBIS Gallery
- Images: Ambala Cantonment Cemetery FIBIS database. Includes a photograph of a memorial erected by the 21st Hussars in 1869
- Ambala Cantonment Cemetery Index of Memorials Searchable database of names and images.
Churches
The cantonment church is called St Paul's and it has a large graveyard and war memorial. St Paul’s Church, ‘an edifice which has been much admired’ was designed by Captain George Atkinson of the Bengal Engineers, according to this Archives,org link. He was the author of Curry & rice' on forty plates : or, The ingredients of social life at 'our station' in India, published 1860, refer Society reading list, and Historical books online, below which may have been based on life in the cantonment at Umballa.
St Paul's Church was bombed in 1965 and is now in ruins.
Cemeteries
List and images of graves at Ambala Christian cemetery www.gravestonephotos.com (Scroll down for list)
Also see "Historical books online", below.
Boer War period
During the Boer War there was a Prisoner of War Camp at Ambala. See POW Camps in India.
First World War
There was a Young Officers’ School at Ambala c 1917-1919. This appears to have been associated with a similar School at Subathu[1] and it seems likely that Subathu was the summer location of this School.
External links
- Ambala City Imperial Gazetteer of India
- Ambala Wikipedia
- Ambala Cantonment Wikipedia
- Government of Haryana: Reprinted Old British Gazetteers. Previously part of Bengal. Haryana Government website. Includes Ambala District 1883-84, 1892, 1923-24, the latter available as a searchable pdf. revenueharyana.gov.in
- St Paul’s Church Ambala by Ramesh Lalwani 4 December 2005 mangalorean.com, now archived.
- "A peep into the history of Ambala" by Lt Gen Ranjit Singh (retd) April 6, 2014. tribuneindia.com (retrieved 21 April 2014). The Ambala Cantt with tree-lined roads and open spaces owes its origin to Capt Robert Napier, a Bengal Sappers officer.
- RAF Ambala rafweb.org (retrieved 1 July 2014)
Historical books online
- Umballa in 1845 Missionary Register for 1845, page 527 Google Books
- Cavalry Experiences and Leaves from My Journal by Colonel H A Ouvry 1892 Archive.org. The author was an officer in the 3rd Light Dragoons, and later the 9th Lancers, and was based at Umballa at various periods 1846-1859
- "Curry & Rice," on Forty Plates, or, The Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India by George Francklin Atkinson, with Forty Chapters, each with an Illustration (which may rotated in the Hathi Trust versions) 1st Edition 1858 Hathi Trust, 2nd Edition 1859 Hathi Trust, 3rd Edition 1860 Google Books. The author was in the Bengal Engineers, and from 1854 was Executive Engineer of the Umballa Division
- "Topographical and Sanitary Report on Umballa and its vicinity, Upper India" by Dr Kendal, Surgeon, H. M.’s 7th Hussars, page 213 Army Medical Department: Statistical Sanitary and Medical Reports for the year 1859 (published 1861) Google Books
- Umballa page 380 Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations 1864 Archive.org
- Opening of the Meerut and Umballa Section of the Delhi Railway, on the 14th of November, 1868 Archive.org
- Umballa is mentioned in Around the world on a bicycle Volume 2: From Teheran to Yokohama, page 299 by Thomas Stevens 1888 Archive.org
- "Ambala District" page 33 A list of inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan possessing historical or archaeological interest Part 1 by Miles Irving (1910) HathiTrust Digital Library
- Gazetteer of Ambala District, 1883-84. A volume in the series of Punjab District Gazetteers. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
- The cantonment, page 64
- Punjab District Gazetteers Volume VII Part A Ambala District 1923-24. 1998 reprint of 1925 original. Archive.org.
- Fringe of the Clouds by Air Marshal Sir Philip Livingston 1962 Archive.org Lending Library. Includes "Chapter 5 India with the Royal Air Force 1920-1922" page 97. The author was a medical officer with the RAF, based at Ambala. There is a description of the cantonment page 105.
References
- ↑ "School of Instruction for Officers, Sabathu & Ambala, 1917 to 1919" September 13, 2012. Gill family’s service in the First World War. gillww1