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*[http://www.dioceseofmeerut.org/home.php The Catholic Diocese of Meerut] | *[http://www.dioceseofmeerut.org/home.php The Catholic Diocese of Meerut] | ||
===Historical books online=== | ===Historical books online=== | ||
| + | *[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/lsidyv38fae274#ark:/81055/vdc_00000003494F.0x00000B ''On the topography of Meerutt, and the principal diseases which prevailed in the 1st Brigade of Horse Artillery at that place''] by John Murray, M.D., Assistant Surgeon, 1st Brigade Horse Artillery 1839 published Calcutta. British Library itemViewer. (pdf download may be accessed through the BL catalogue: copy and paste lsidyv38fae274 in the [http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?menuitem=1&fromTop=true&fromPreferences=false&fromEshelf=false&vid=BLVU1 Search] and select ‘ I want this’) | ||
| + | **[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/lsidyv38fae274#ark:/81055/vdc_00000003494F.0x00000A Plan of the Artillery Hospital and Artillery Barracks] | ||
*[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 | ||
**[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/GJ5Q7SWHPJZ754VFVGLHZSNCB3THK5UF Map of the Cantonment & environs of Meerut] Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek/Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin | **[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/GJ5Q7SWHPJZ754VFVGLHZSNCB3THK5UF Map of the Cantonment & environs of Meerut] Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek/Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin | ||
Revision as of 06:31, 14 March 2015
| Meerut | |
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| 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 |
| Transport links | |
| FibiWiki Maps | |
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| See our interactive map of this location showing places of interest during the British period | |
| [xxxxx Meerut] |
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.
Contents
Spelling variants
Meerut, Meerutt, Miruth
Military history
Mutiny at Meerut May 1857
Churches
- Photograph of St John's Garrison Church - Meerut - 1822 taken in 2009 flickr.com (also see image in info box)
- Photograph of St Joseph's Church - Meerut – 1826 taken in 2009 flickr.com
- Photograph of St Paul's Methodist Church - Meerut – 1924 taken in 2009 flickr.com
Cemeteries
- FIBIS RESOURCES
- Meerut Cantonment Cemetery Inscriptions and images from FIBIS database
- St John's Cemetery Few inscriptions and images held on FIBIS database
- 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
- "Meerut City" Imperial Gazetteer
- General View Royal Field Artillery (R.F.A.) Barracks, Meerut 1910 Postcard from Images of Asia
- The Catholic Diocese of Meerut
Historical books online
- On the topography of Meerutt, and the principal diseases which prevailed in the 1st Brigade of Horse Artillery at that place by John Murray, M.D., Assistant Surgeon, 1st Brigade Horse Artillery 1839 published Calcutta. British Library itemViewer. (pdf download may be accessed through the BL catalogue: copy and paste lsidyv38fae274 in the Search and select ‘ I want this’)
- 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
- Map of the Cantonment & environs of Meerut Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek/Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
- Meerut: A Gazetteer, Being Volume IV of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh Compiled and edited by H. R. Nevill, I.C.S 1904 Archive.org
- "Meerut City", page 271
- The cantonment, page 275
