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*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V17_269.gif "Meerut City"] Imperial Gazetteer<br>
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V17_269.gif "Meerut City"] Imperial Gazetteer<br>
*[http://www.imagesofasia.com/html/india/army-barracks.html General View Royal Field Artillery (R.F.A.) Barracks, Meerut 1910] Postcard from Images of Asia
*[http://www.imagesofasia.com/html/india/army-barracks.html General View Royal Field Artillery (R.F.A.) Barracks, Meerut 1910] Postcard from Images of Asia
 
*[http://www.dioceseofmeerut.org/home.php The Catholic Diocese of Meerut]
===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[http://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht/?PPN=PPN668138920&PHYSID=PHYS_0427 Meerut cantonments] page 409 (digital page 427) ''Statistical, descriptive and historical account of the northwestern provinces of India ; Volume 3 [including] Gazetteer of the Meerut District'' 1876 Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
*[http://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht/?PPN=PPN668138920&PHYSID=PHYS_0427 Meerut cantonments] page 409 (digital page 427) ''Statistical, descriptive and historical account of the northwestern provinces of India ; Volume 3 [including] Gazetteer of the Meerut District'' 1876 Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

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Meerut
Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 28.99°N 77.7°E
Altitude: 225 m (737 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Meerut
State/Province: Uttar Pradesh
Country: India
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places of interest during the British period
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Meerut was the headquarters of Meerut District in the Meerut Division of United Provinces during the British period. It was the location of an important military garrison.

Spelling variants

Meerut, Miruth

Military history

Mutiny at Meerut May 1857

Churches

Cemeteries

  • BACSA (British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia) cemetery publications are
    • Meerut: The First Sixty Years (1815-1875) by Alan Harfield, 1992 MIs and burial registers. Also a complete listing of the British and Indian regiments there along with a history of the garrison.
    • Meerut Part II (1876-1939) by Alan Harfield, 1999 MIs and Burial Registers of Cantonment Cemetery; also Race Course Cemetery and Military Memorials.
See BACSA Books.
BACSA have put the indexes to these cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.

External links

Kambob Gate - Meerut

Historical books online