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Kharagpur is situated about 120km west of Calcutta,  a junction on the [[Bengal Nagpur Railway]]
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|altitude= 61 m (200 ft)
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Originally it was the railway suburb of [[Midnapore]] (Medinipur),  but increased in importance when BNR made it the headquarters, with workshops, of their Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Departments
'''Kharagpur''' was the headquarters subdivision of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V17_333.gif Midnapore District] in the Burdwan Division of Bengal during the British period.
[[Image:Bnrkhargur.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Photograph of the Kharagpur Loco Running Staff 1910]]
Originally it was the railway suburb of [[Midnapore]] (Medinipur),  but increased in importance when the [[Bengal-Nagpur Railway]](BNR) made it the headquarters, with workshops, of its Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Departments.
 
See also
*[[Kharagpur Railway Workshops]]
*[[Bengal-Nagpur Railway Kharagpur Construction Monorail|BNR Workshops Construction, Kharagpur]]


==Spelling variants==
==Spelling variants==
Kharagpur, Khargpur
Modern name: Kharagpur<br>
Variants: Kharakpur / Khargpur
 
==Recommended Reading==
*''Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self'' Columbia University Press. New York, 2007 by Laura Bear. This book is reviewed in [[Transport and communications reading list]]
   
   
==External links==
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharagpur,_West_Bengal Kharagpur, West Bengal] Wikipedia
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V15_253.gif Kharakpur] Imperial Gazetteer<br>
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharagpur_Railway_Settlement Kharagpur Railway Settlement] Wikipedia (retrieved 29 May 2016)
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharagpur_Junction_railway_station Kharagpur Junction railway station] Wikipedia (retrieved 29 May 2016)
*[http://indianrail.wikia.com/wiki/Kharagpur Kharagpur]Indianrail.wiki. Article includes photograph of railway station
*[http://web.ncf.ca/kharagpurdiaspora/ Kharagpur’s Diaspora Reunited]  Website of Corinne Joy Baxter née Crampton for “friends of BNR people”. Her father was a Foreman in the Boiler Dept until they left in 1950. The website contains many photographs.
*[http://web.ncf.ca/kharagpurdiaspora/ Kharagpur’s Diaspora Reunited]  Website of Corinne Joy Baxter née Crampton for “friends of BNR people”. Her father was a Foreman in the Boiler Dept until they left in 1950. The website contains many photographs.
*"Highlights In The Shadows" by Owen Clement includes memories of Kharagpur [http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2006/04/4_my_fathers_sc_1.php#more Part 4 His father’s appreniceship], [http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2006/05/10_early_life.php#more Part 10 Early Life], [http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2006/06/15_kharagpur.php Part 15 Kharagpur], [http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2006/07/16_railway_inst_1.php#more Part 16 Railway Institute]
*[http://www.indiaofthepast.org/contribute-memories/read-contributions/life-back-then/140-american-boyhood-british-india "An American Boyhood in British India"] by Stanley E Brush, born 1925.  indiaofthepast.org. The author's father was an American Baptist Minister, at the American Baptist Mission at Khargpur.
*[http://www.farewellthewinterline.com/HTMLBook/Chapter2-39-42.html "Bengal Nagpur Railway picnics and outings"] from ''Farewell the Winterline, Memories of a Boyhood in India'' by Stanley Elwood Brush, born  1925
*"Highlights In The Shadows" by Owen Clement, born 1928,  includes memories of Kharagpur [http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2006/04/4_my_fathers_sc_1.php#more Part 4 His father’s apprenticeship], [http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2006/05/10_early_life.php#more Part 10 Early Life], [http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2006/06/15_kharagpur.php Part 15 Kharagpur], [http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2006/07/16_railway_inst_1.php#more Part 16 Railway Institute]
*[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/reviewb.html "Book Review: ''Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self'' Columbia University Press. New York, 2007 by Laura Bear and Reviewed By Robyn Andrews"] ''The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies'' Volume 11, Number 1, 2011. Part of the research for this book was carried out at Kharagpur.
*[http://www.kharagpurworkshop.org /Kharagpur Workshop, South Eastern Railway]
*[http://cris-ser.cris.org.in/CRIS/general/book_rrb/preserving_bnr_heritage.htm Preserving BNR Heritage]. Includes details of the photographic archive at Kharagpur.
*[http://www.topix.com/album/detail/in/kharagpur/M4AR3GHFPP9ST8VJ Photograph of the Railway Workshop in 1909]
*[http://www.topix.com/album/detail/in/kharagpur/M4AR3GHFPP9ST8VJ Photograph of the Railway Workshop in 1909]
*[http://valmayukuk.tripod.com/id22.html BNR Khargpur: Photograph of the Loco Running Staff 1910] from British India Family History (valmayukuk.tripod.com)
*[http://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sections/britain/periodicals/labour_monthly/1927/12/x01.htm  The Bengal-Nagpur Railway Lockout] Kharagpur 1927 marxists.org
*India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2000-07/0965037924 post] with details of the history of Kharagpur
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Re7ixChJUvUC&pg=PA55 Plan of the Railway Colony at Kharagpur] page 55 ''The Bungalow in Twentieth-Century India'' by Madhavi Desai, Miki Desai, Jon Lang Google Books
 


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Latest revision as of 01:56, 21 December 2017

Kharagpur
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 22.3310478°N, 87.1924589°E
Altitude: 61 m (200 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Kharagpur
State/Province: West Bengal
Country: India
Transport links
Bengal-Nagpur Railway

Kharagpur was the headquarters subdivision of Midnapore District in the Burdwan Division of Bengal during the British period.

Photograph of the Kharagpur Loco Running Staff 1910

Originally it was the railway suburb of Midnapore (Medinipur), but increased in importance when the Bengal-Nagpur Railway(BNR) made it the headquarters, with workshops, of its Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Departments.

See also

Spelling variants

Modern name: Kharagpur
Variants: Kharakpur / Khargpur

Recommended Reading

  • Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self Columbia University Press. New York, 2007 by Laura Bear. This book is reviewed in Transport and communications reading list

External links

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