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'''Bhuj''' was the capital of the State of Cutch. It was located in a {{Locations_Infobox|presidency= [[Princely StatesBombay (Presidency)|Princely StateBombay]]|image=|coordinates=[https://www.google.com/maps/place/23°15'00.0%22N+69°40'12.0%22E/@23.25,69.67, now part of 12z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d23.25!4d69.67?hl=en 23.25 °N 69.67 °E]|altitude= 110 m (360 ft)|presentname= [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhuj Bhuj} |stateprovince= [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarat Gujarat]|country=[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India]. For administrative purposes, it was regarded as part of the |transport=[[Bombay (Presidency)|Bombay PresidencyCutch State Railway]]. }}
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'''Bhuj''' was the capital of the [[Princely States|Princely State]] of Cutch, now part of [[Gujarat]]. For administrative purposes, it was regarded as part of the [[Bombay (Presidency)|Bombay Presidency]]. It was the location of a cantonment, where mainly Native Infantry regiments were garrisoned.
==Spelling variants==
Modern name: Bhuj, <br>Variants: Bhooj
==Also seeRelated articles==
*[[1819 Earthquake at Kutch]]
==Churches==
* St Mary's Roman Catholic Church
* St Andrews Church built in 1856 "One of the oldest Churches In India" <ref> [http://wikimapia.org/11849562/St-Andrew-s-Church] wikimapia.org </ref>
*The cantonment church was consecrated in 1872<ref> India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2012-07/1342998600 post]</ref>
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhuj Bhuj] Wikipedia(retrieved 7 June 2016)*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2012-07/1342998600 post] refers to the cantonment church
===Historical books online===
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V08_157.gif "Bhuj"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 8'', page 151.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteer03pregoog#page/n230/mode/1up "Bhuj"], page 215 ''Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Volume 5, Cutch, Palanpur and Mahi Kantha'' 1883 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=cP4RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA241 "Medical Topography of Bhooj"] page 241, ''A Narrative of a Visit to the Court of Sinde'' by James Burnes, Surgeon to the Residency at Bhooj 1829 Reprinted 1831 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vTsBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA91 Bhooj c early 1830s] page 91 ''Sketches of a Soldier's Life in India'' by Staff Sergeant Thomas Quinney, Hon. East India Company’s Service, 1853 Google Books. He arrived in Bombay May 1827 and transferred to the Bombay Artillery c 1830. He was invalided in January 1841.
*[https://archive.org/details/travelsintobokha03burnuoft ''Volume III, Travels into Bokhara; being the account of a journey from India to Cabool, Tartary, and Persia; also, Narrative of a voyage on the Indus, from the sea to Lahore, with presents from the king of Great Britain; performed under the orders of the supreme government of India, in the years 1831, 1832, and 1833''] by Lieutenant Alexander Burnes 1834 Archive.org. The author was for several years employed in the Quarter-Master-General’s Department in the province of Cutch, and at least the final chapter concerns Cutch.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=d6jn0or_9WwC&pg=PR3 ''Cutch or Random Sketches taken during a Residence in one of the Northern Provinces of Western India''] by Mrs Postans 1839 Google Books
*[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/21/1/111.full.pdf "An Episode of the Second Afghan War, 1878–79"] by Colonel J. M. Beamish ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1913;21:1 pages 111-116. There is a short Appendix about Bhuj in 1898.
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