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'''Muttra''', or Mathura, was a city and district of British India in the Agra division of the [[United Provinces]]. Today it is a city of some 2.5 million people on the right bank of the Jumna in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
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'''Muttra''' was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V18_068.gif Muttra District] in the Agra Division of [[United Provinces]] during the British period. Today it is a city of some 2.5 million people on the right bank of the Jumna in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
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A cantonment was established in 1804. The Royal Artillery Training Centre was established in 1935.
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== Spelling Variants ==
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Modern name: Mathura<br>
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Variants: Muttra
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==
[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Muttra Muttra] www.1911encyclopedia.org
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*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V18_078.gif Muttra City] Imperial Gazetteer<br>
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*[http://cbmathura.org/history/  Cantt Board Mathura: History]  A cantonment was established in 1804. The Royal Artillery Training Centre was established in 1935.
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*[http://beautifulindianchurches.blogspot.com/2016/11/christ-church-mathura-church-of-north.html Christ Church, Mathura (Church of North India)]  ''Beautiful Indian Churches.''
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150918213847/http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/26th-october-1878/14/muttra-chapel-nwp-india Muttra Chapel, N.W.P. India]. Page 14, 26th October 1878 ''The Tablet'' The International Catholic News Weekly, now an archived webpage.
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*First  page of an article [http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/article/10.1680/imotp.1913.17513 Bridges on the Northern Section of the Nagda-Muttra State Railway]  by John Kerr Robertson, ICE ''Minutes of the Proceedings, Volume 193, Issue 1913, 01 January 1913'' , pages 331 –346
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**The opening of the Nagda-Muttra State Railway to through traffic in October, 1909, marked the completion of an important addition to the railway system of India. Leaving the Godhra-Rutlam Nagda Railway at Nagda, the new railway runs almost due north, through Central India and the Rajputana States, to Muttra, where it forms a junction with the Agra-Delhi chord railway.
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*Images of [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1400_1499/krishnabhakti/mathura/mathura.html Mathura] from Professor Pritchett’s website Indian Routes
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*[http://trochronicles.blogspot.com/2010/03/hog-sticking-raj-style-pt-ii.html  Hog Sticking Raj Style!  Part II] mentions the Muttra Tent Club.
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*[http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-mutra-cup-meeting-aka-the-muttra-cup-meeting/query/cup  Video: The Muttra Cup Meeting India’s Largest Pig-Sticking Contest] 1 min 33sec preview British Pathe
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===Historical books online===
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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=U6_bUukB-nIC&pg=PA469 Muttra] page 469 ''The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842 Volume II'' Google Books
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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bEsEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA543 Muttra] page 543 ''The Baptist Magazine for 1843'' Google Books
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*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/372/mode/2up Muttra] page  373 ''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
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*[https://archive.org/details/mathurdistrict00growrich ''Mathura; a District Memoir''] by Frederic Salmon Growse, 1883 Archive.org
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**[https://archive.org/stream/mathurdistrict00growrich#page/158/mode/2up Chapter VII "The City of Mathura: The European Institutions and Museum"] page 159. Includes a photograph of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church
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*[https://archive.org/details/reportonsettlem00whitgoog ''Report on the Settlement of the Muttra District, North-Western Provinces (1879)''] by R. S. Whiteway Bengal Civil Service 1879 Archive.org
  
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*[http://en.brajdiscovery.org/index.php?title=Mathura_A_Gazetteer-1 Transcription of ''Mathura: A Gazetteer''],
 edited and compiled by D.L. Drake-Brockman 1911 brajdiscovery.org
  
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*[https://archive.org/details/personaladventur00thor ''The Personal Adventures and Experiences of a Magistrate During the Rise, Progress, and Suppression of the Indian Mutiny''] by Mark Thornhill  1884 Archive.org. Also available as a current reprint by Cambridge University Press [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=7ihP7E49bDYC&pg=PP1    Preview Google Books]. The author was the Magistrate at Muttra.
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*[https://archive.org/stream/2864905upenn/2864905#page/n21/mode/1up "An Indian Incident"] page 18 ''The Wooden City; a Journal for British Prisoners of War''. 1915 Archive.org. A Shikar expedition from Muttra in 1907.
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Latest revision as of 13:05, 18 September 2019

Muttra
Church of England Muttra.jpg
Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 27.492739°N 77.666121°E
Altitude: 174 metres (570 feet)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Mathura
State/Province: Uttar Pradesh
Country: India
Transport links
Muttra Hathras Provincial Railway
Muttra Achnera Provincial State Railway
Nagda-Mathura(Muttra) Railway
FibiWiki Maps
See our interactive map of this location showing
places of interest during the British period
[xxxxx Muttra]



Muttra was the headquarters of Muttra District in the Agra Division of United Provinces during the British period. Today it is a city of some 2.5 million people on the right bank of the Jumna in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

A cantonment was established in 1804. The Royal Artillery Training Centre was established in 1935.

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Mathura
Variants: Muttra

External links

Historical books online