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'''Meerut''' was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V17_259.gif Meerut District] in the Meerut Division of United Provinces during the British period. It was the location of an important military garrison.
'''Meerut''' was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V17_259.gif Meerut District] in the Meerut Division of United Provinces during the British period. It was the location of an important military garrison.
==Spelling variants==
Meerut, Meerutt, Miruth, Merat, Mirat.


== Military history ==
== Military history ==
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*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/23268776@N03/4375248339/in/set-72157624860712046/  Photograph  of St Joseph's Church - Meerut – 1826] taken in 2009 flickr.com
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/23268776@N03/4375248339/in/set-72157624860712046/  Photograph  of St Joseph's Church - Meerut – 1826] taken in 2009 flickr.com
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/23268776@N03/4375995426/in/set-72157624860712046/ Photograph of  St Paul's Methodist Church - Meerut – 1924] taken in 2009 flickr.com
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/23268776@N03/4375995426/in/set-72157624860712046/ Photograph of  St Paul's Methodist Church - Meerut – 1924] taken in 2009 flickr.com


==Cemeteries==
==Cemeteries==
* FIBIS RESOURCES
* FIBIS RESOURCES
**[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=878&s_id=150 Meerut Cantonment Cemetery] Inscriptions and images from FIBIS database
**[http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=878&s_id=150 Meerut Cantonment Cemetery] Inscriptions and images from FIBIS database
**[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=202&s_id=150 St John's Cemetery] Few inscriptions and images held on FIBIS database
**[http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=202&s_id=150 St John's Cemetery] Few inscriptions and images held on FIBIS database


*[[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA (British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia)]] cemetery publications are  
*[[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA (British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia)]] cemetery publications are  
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==External links==
==External links==
[[Image:Meerut - Kambob Gate.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Kambob Gate - Meerut]]
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V17_269.gif "Meerut City"] Imperial Gazetteer<br>
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V17_269.gif "Meerut City"] Imperial Gazetteer<br>
*[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Meerut Meerut] Love to Know 1911<br>
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160412002323/http://www.imagesofasia.com/html/india/army-barracks.html General View Royal Field Artillery (R.F.A.) Barracks, Meerut 1910] Postcard from Images of Asia, now  archived.
*[http://www.imagesofasia.com/html/india/army-barracks.html General View Royal Field Artillery (R.F.A.) Barracks, Meerut 1910] Postcard from Images of Asia
*Meerut is part of the [http://www.cnidioceseofagra.org/Default.aspx Agra Diocese of the Church of North India]. However, St John’s Garrison Church Meerut is not listed as one of the churches, even though there are references elsewhere that this church became part of the Church of North India.
*[http://www.thecatholicdioceseofmeerut.com/default.aspx The Catholic Diocese of Meerut]
*[http://www.indiandefencereview.com/spotlights/the-great-upsurge-of-1857-historical-sites-in-meerut-cantonment/ "The Great Upsurge of 1857: Historical sites in Meerut Cantonment"] by Dr Amit Pathak, Issue Vol 25.3 Jul-Sep 2010 ''Indian Defence Review''.
*[https://thewire.in/health/on-the-160th-anniversary-of-the-1857-uprising-meet-the-meerut-historian-keeping-the-story-alive "On the 160th Anniversary of the 1857 Uprising, Meet the Meerut Historian Keeping the Story Alive"] by  Sunaina Kumar 10 May 2017 thewire.in
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20201109042229/https://www.thehindu.com/society/history-and-culture/the-200-year-old-meerut-cemetery-where-nine-british-soldiers-lie/article23989579.ece  "The 200-year-old Meerut cemetery where nine British soldiers lie"] by Ishita Mishra May 26, 2018  ''The Hindu'', archived webpage.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200126105919/http://gravematters.in/?p=2432 ‘Memorial plaques in St. John’s Church, Meerut, India, Part-I’] by K.J.S. Chatrath December 30, 2016. gravematters.in, now archived.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toQ-D_bai_A ‪St. John's Church, Meerut... The Legacy‬] You Tube video.


===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[http://archive.org/stream/districtgazette00indgoog#page/n4/mode/2up Meerut: A Gazetteer, Being Volume IV of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh] Compiled and edited by H. R. Nevill, I.C.S 1904 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/firstimpressions01baco#page/358/mode/2up "Merat"], page 358 ''Volume I, First impressions and studies from nature in Hindostan; embracing an outline of the voyage to Calcutta, and five years residence in Bengal and the Doab, from MDCCCXXXI to MDCCCXXXVI'' by Thomas Bacon, Lieut. Of the Bengal Horse Artillery 1837 Archive.org
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034950  ''On the topography of Meerutt, and the principal diseases which prevailed in the 1st Brigade of Horse Artillery at that place''] by John Murray, M.D., Assistant Surgeon, 1st Brigade Horse Artillery 1839 published Calcutta. British Library Digital Collection.
:[https://archive.org/details/b22274789/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org version]
:*[https://archive.org/details/b22274789/page/n1/mode/1up  Plan of the Artillery Hospital and Artillery Barracks] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/jramc-1913-vol21/page/599/mode/2up "On the Topography of Meerutt" by Dr Murray, dealing with the period 1833-1837, with an Introduction] by A E Tate page 600, continuing [https://archive.org/details/jramc-1913-vol21/page/713/mode/2up page 713] ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Volume 21 1913'' Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/374/mode/2up Meerut] page 375  ''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
*[https://archive.org/details/openingmeerutan00compgoog/page/n2 ''Opening of the Meerut and Umballa Section of the Delhi Railway, on the 14th of November, 1868''] 1869 Archive.org
*[http://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht/?PPN=PPN668138920&PHYSID=PHYS_0427 Meerut cantonments] page 409 (digital page 427) ''Statistical, descriptive and historical account of the northwestern provinces of India ; Volume 3 [including] Gazetteer of the Meerut District'' 1876 Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=G9jaXsOc-tEC&pg=PA409 Google Books edition, page 409]
*[http://archive.org/stream/districtgazette00indgoog#page/n4/mode/2up ''Meerut: A Gazetteer, Being Volume IV of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh''] Compiled and edited by H. R. Nevill, I.C.S 1904 Archive.org
**[http://archive.org/stream/districtgazette00indgoog#page/n286/mode/2up "Meerut City"], page 271  
**[http://archive.org/stream/districtgazette00indgoog#page/n286/mode/2up "Meerut City"], page 271  
**[http://archive.org/stream/districtgazette00indgoog#page/n290/mode/2up  The cantonment], page 275
**[http://archive.org/stream/districtgazette00indgoog#page/n290/mode/2up  The cantonment], page 275
*[https://archive.org/details/mutinyoutbreakat0000palm/page/n5 ''The Mutiny Outbreak at Meerut in 1857''] by J A B Palmer 1966  including
:[https://archive.org/details/mutinyoutbreakat0000palm/page/176 "Plan of Meerut Cantonment in 1857"], page 177. Archive.org Lending Library


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Latest revision as of 12:51, 29 July 2023

Meerut
Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 28.99°N 77.7°E
Altitude: 225 m (737 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Meerut
State/Province: Uttar Pradesh
Country: India
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Meerut was the headquarters of Meerut District in the Meerut Division of United Provinces during the British period. It was the location of an important military garrison.

Spelling variants

Meerut, Meerutt, Miruth, Merat, Mirat.

Military history

Mutiny at Meerut May 1857

Churches

Cemeteries

  • BACSA (British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia) cemetery publications are
    • Meerut: The First Sixty Years (1815-1875) by Alan Harfield, 1992 MIs and burial registers. Also a complete listing of the British and Indian regiments there along with a history of the garrison.
    • Meerut Part II (1876-1939) by Alan Harfield, 1999 MIs and Burial Registers of Cantonment Cemetery; also Race Course Cemetery and Military Memorials.
See BACSA Books.
BACSA have put the indexes to these cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.

External links

Kambob Gate - Meerut

Historical books online

Archive.org version
"On the Topography of Meerutt" by Dr Murray, dealing with the period 1833-1837, with an Introduction by A E Tate page 600, continuing page 713 Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Volume 21 1913 Archive.org
"Plan of Meerut Cantonment in 1857", page 177. Archive.org Lending Library