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== History == | == History == | ||
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=====POW Camp at Bairagarh===== | =====POW Camp at Bairagarh===== | ||
During the Second World War, there was a large Prisoner of War Camp for Italian prisoners at Bairagarh, then a locality near Bhopal, now a part of Bhopal. See [[POW Camps in India# Second World War| POW Camps in India]]. | During the Second World War, there was a large Prisoner of War Camp for Italian prisoners at Bairagarh, then a locality near Bhopal, now a part of Bhopal. See [[POW Camps in India# Second World War| POW Camps in India]]. | ||
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== Records == | == Records == | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V08_148.gif Bhopal] Imperial Gazetteer of India<br> | *[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V08_148.gif Bhopal] Imperial Gazetteer of India<br> | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Central_India_Agency_1909.jpg Map of Central India Agency 1909] Wikipedia | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Central_India_Agency_1909.jpg Map of Central India Agency 1909] Wikipedia | ||
*[http://www.rafweb.org/Stations/Stations-B.htm#Bhopal RAF Bhopal] rafweb.org (retrieved 1 July 2014) | |||
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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=U6_bUukB-nIC&pg=PA367 Bhopal] page 367 ''The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842 Volume II'' Google Books | |||
*''Central India State Gazetteer Series''. Compliled by Captain C E Luard, Superintendent of Gazetteer in Central India.This series includes | |||
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.123735 ''Bhopal State Gazetteer Volume III Text and Tables''] 1908. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. | |||
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Latest revision as of 08:18, 10 June 2017
| Bhopal | |
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| Presidency: Bengal | |
| Coordinates: | 23.259933°N 77.412615°E |
| Altitude: | 427 metres (1,401 ft) |
| Present Day Details | |
| Place Name: | Bhopal |
| State/Province: | Madhya 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 Bhopal] |
Bhopal was a town in the Central Indian Agency (Wikipedia) and was the junction of the Midland section of the Great Indian Peninsula and Bhopal-Ujjain Railways, 521 miles from Bombay.
Spelling Variants
Modern name: Bhopal
Variants:
History
Military
POW Camp at Bairagarh
During the Second World War, there was a large Prisoner of War Camp for Italian prisoners at Bairagarh, then a locality near Bhopal, now a part of Bhopal. See POW Camps in India.
Churches and missions
Cemeteries
Places of interest
Education
Transport
Records
External links
- Bhopal Imperial Gazetteer of India
- Map of Central India Agency 1909 Wikipedia
- RAF Bhopal rafweb.org (retrieved 1 July 2014)
Historical books online
- Bhopal page 367 The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842 Volume II Google Books
- Central India State Gazetteer Series. Compliled by Captain C E Luard, Superintendent of Gazetteer in Central India.This series includes
- Bhopal State Gazetteer Volume III Text and Tables 1908. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.