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'''Nasirabad''' was a cantonment in Ajmer district in the Indian state of Rajasthan in Central India
'''Nasirabad''' was a cantonment in Ajmer district in the Indian state of Rajasthan in Central India.
 
The Barracks was called Inkerman Barracks.<ref>[https://sites.google.com/site/charlesgeorgedixon18961917/lest-we-forget-my-family-s-military-memorial/charles-dixon-1871-1918 Charles Dixon 1871- 1918]</ref>
 
There was a cemetery located just outside the cantonment, beside the railway station.<ref> John Sworder's article</ref>
 
For many years, at least until 1910,  from a military operations point of view, Nasirabad cantonment was part of Bombay Presidency, but may subsequently have been part of Bengal Presidency.
The July 1910 Indian Army List indicates the Nasirabad Brigade was part of the 5th (Mhow Division) of the Southern Army<ref>[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278915/page/n41/mode/1up Page 28] ''July 1910 Indian Army List'' Archive.org</ref>, however the same edition lists Mhow as part of the Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278915/page/n627/mode/1up Page 696] ''July 1910 Indian Army List'' Archive.org</ref>


== Spelling Variants ==
== Spelling Variants ==
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==FIBIS Resources==
==FIBIS Resources==
"Life in a British Cantonment in India: Nasirabad, 1929-1930" by John Sworder  ''FIBIS Journal Number 23 (Spring 2010)'', pages 40-48. For details of how to access this article, refer [[FIBIS Journals]].
*[https://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1120&s_id=341 Nasirabad Cemetery] Images and transcribed index records. FIBIS database.
*"Life in a British Cantonment in India: Nasirabad, 1929-1930" by John Sworder  ''FIBIS Journal Number 23 (Spring 2010)'', pages 40-48. For details of how to access this article, refer [[FIBIS Journals]].
   
   
==Related articles==
==Related articles==
*[[Mutiny at Nusseerabad]]
*[[Mutiny at Nusseerabad]]


==External Links==
==External links==
*[http://www.kingsownmuseum.com/galleryaccommodation01.htm Photo Gallery: Accommodation for Soldiers and Officers: Colonial Buildings of the 19th Century] King's Own Royal Regiment Museum. Scroll down to a photograph titled "Sergeants Mess, 2nd Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Nasirabad, 1895". Accession Number: KO0809-01-37a
 
====Historical books online====
====Historical books online====
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V18_420.gif "Nasirabad Town (3)"] I''mperial Gazetteer of India'', Volume  18, page 414.
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V18_420.gif "Nasirabad Town (3)"] I''mperial Gazetteer of India'', Volume  18, page 414.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=y1cOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA78 ''The modern traveller: a popular description, geographical, historical, and topographical of the various countries of the globe,  India Volume 4'']  1828, page 78 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=y1cOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA78 ''The modern traveller: a popular description, geographical, historical, and topographical of the various countries of the globe,  India Volume 4'']  1828, page 78 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=7HEBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ''The Mutinies in Rajpootana, being personal narrative of the Mutiny at Nusseerabad, with subsequent residence at Jodhpore, and journey across the desert into Sind, together with an account of the outbreak at Neemuch, and mutiny of the Jodhpore Legion at Erinpoora, and attack on Mount Aboo''] by Iltudus Thomas Prichard. late of the Bengal Army 1860 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/464/mode/2up "Nusseerabad"] page 465 ''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
*The cantonment in 1866 is mentioned briefly at the bottom of [http://www.archive.org/stream/indiaitsnativepr00rousuoft#page/212/mode/2up  page 213] ''India and its native princes. Travels in Central India and in the presidencies of Bombay and Bengal'' by Louis Rousselet New edition 1882 Archive.org
*The cantonment in 1866 is mentioned briefly at the bottom of [http://www.archive.org/stream/indiaitsnativepr00rousuoft#page/212/mode/2up  page 213] ''India and its native princes. Travels in Central India and in the presidencies of Bombay and Bengal'' by Louis Rousselet New edition 1882 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/rajputanadistri00agegoog#page/n137/mode/2up Nasirabad cantonment] page 118 ''Rajputana District Gazetteers: Volume I-A Ajmer Merwara'' by C C Watson, ICS 1904 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/fliesinrelationt00grah#page/138/mode/2up Page 139]  ''Flies in Relation to Disease: non-bloodsucking flies'' by G. S. Graham- Smith.  1913 Archive.org.  In 1903 the [[72nd Regiment of Foot|Seaforth Highlanders]], stationed at Nasirabad, suffered from a very bad epidemic of typhoid fever.
== References ==
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Latest revision as of 15:18, 10 March 2021

Nasirabad, Rajputana
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 26.297436°N 74.735731°E
Altitude: 429 m (1,407 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Nasirabad
State/Province: Rajasthan
Country: India
Transport links

Nasirabad was a cantonment in Ajmer district in the Indian state of Rajasthan in Central India.

The Barracks was called Inkerman Barracks.[1]

There was a cemetery located just outside the cantonment, beside the railway station.[2]

For many years, at least until 1910, from a military operations point of view, Nasirabad cantonment was part of Bombay Presidency, but may subsequently have been part of Bengal Presidency. The July 1910 Indian Army List indicates the Nasirabad Brigade was part of the 5th (Mhow Division) of the Southern Army[3], however the same edition lists Mhow as part of the Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment.[4]

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Nasirabad
Variants:Nusseerabad/Nusserabad/Naseerabad (Note there are a number of towns with these names)

FIBIS Resources

  • Nasirabad Cemetery Images and transcribed index records. FIBIS database.
  • "Life in a British Cantonment in India: Nasirabad, 1929-1930" by John Sworder FIBIS Journal Number 23 (Spring 2010), pages 40-48. For details of how to access this article, refer FIBIS Journals.

Related articles

External links

Historical books online

References

  1. Charles Dixon 1871- 1918
  2. John Sworder's article
  3. Page 28 July 1910 Indian Army List Archive.org
  4. Page 696 July 1910 Indian Army List Archive.org