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*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/j/019pho000000394u00072000.html Photograph: Jubbalpore, Central India. Hotel c 1860] British Library Online Gallery
 
*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/j/019pho000000394u00072000.html Photograph: Jubbalpore, Central India. Hotel c 1860] British Library Online Gallery
 
*[http://image.slidesharecdn.com/historyofgreatindianrailways-130625022715-phpapp01/95/history-of-great-indian-railways-104-638.jpg?cb=1372145755 Image: Invitation to a banquet at Jubbulpore to mark the opening of the North East Extension of the G I P Railway March 1870].  Includes the wording: "Tents will be provided but visitors  should bring their own bedding…"    Image 104 [http://www.slideshare.net/aishwarya1800/history-of-great-indian-railways History of great indian railways] by Aish Warya slideshare.net. Scroll down for the contents of the slideshow. Note the description for some image numbers does not match the image.  
 
*[http://image.slidesharecdn.com/historyofgreatindianrailways-130625022715-phpapp01/95/history-of-great-indian-railways-104-638.jpg?cb=1372145755 Image: Invitation to a banquet at Jubbulpore to mark the opening of the North East Extension of the G I P Railway March 1870].  Includes the wording: "Tents will be provided but visitors  should bring their own bedding…"    Image 104 [http://www.slideshare.net/aishwarya1800/history-of-great-indian-railways History of great indian railways] by Aish Warya slideshare.net. Scroll down for the contents of the slideshow. Note the description for some image numbers does not match the image.  
*[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx?cpage=1&sort=name&order=asc Burials at Jubbulpore Cantonment Cemetery] Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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*[https://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/5001721/jubbulpore-cantonment-cemetery/ Jubbulpore Cantonment Cemetery] Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Contains a link to the burial records.
 
*[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Dead-buried-and-remembered-too/articleshow/9163014.cms "Dead & buried, and remembered too"] by Shishir Arya, July 9, 2011 ''The Times of India''. Mathura Pershad and Co. Jubbelpore  provided many of the gravestones in Jubbelpore in the days of the British Raj.
 
*[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Dead-buried-and-remembered-too/articleshow/9163014.cms "Dead & buried, and remembered too"] by Shishir Arya, July 9, 2011 ''The Times of India''. Mathura Pershad and Co. Jubbelpore  provided many of the gravestones in Jubbelpore in the days of the British Raj.
 
*[http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/postingspicsind.html  Postcards: Hugh Rose Barracks, Jubbulpore and cantonment gardens, Jubbulpore]. Scroll down to the section titled Jubbulpore. The Army Children Archive (TACA)
 
*[http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/postingspicsind.html  Postcards: Hugh Rose Barracks, Jubbulpore and cantonment gardens, Jubbulpore]. Scroll down to the section titled Jubbulpore. The Army Children Archive (TACA)

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Jubbulpore
Sadar Bazar Jubbulpore.jpg
Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 23.16527°N, 79.945545°E
Altitude: 1,393 m (4,570 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Jabalpur
State/Province: Madhya Pradesh
Country: India
Transport links
East Indian Railway
Great Indian Peninsula Railway
Bengal-Nagpur Railway
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places of interest during the British period
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Jubbulpore was the headquarters of Jubbulpore District in the Jubbulpore Division of Central Provinces during the British period.

The town was the meeting point in 1871 for the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (616 miles from Bombay) and the East Indian Railway (220 miles from Allahabad), and the completion of the first Bombay-Calcutta trunk railway line.

It had large Railway Workshops, employed a large number of people to work the railway and was an important Railway Colony.[1]

There was a cantonment at Jubbulpore.

It is the location of the Gun Carriage Factory, the oldest Ordnance factory in Central India, commenced 1904.

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Jabalpur
Variants: Jubbulpore, Jubbalpore, Jubbelpore, Jubblepore, Jabbalpore, Jabbelpore, Jabbulpore, Juppulpore, Juppalpore

FIBIS Resources

External links

Historical books online

References

  1. "Railway Colonies in India" by John Alton Price, now an archived page.