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|presidency= [[Bombay (Presidency)|Bombay]] | |presidency= [[Bombay (Presidency)|Bombay]] | ||
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|altitude= 762 m (2,500 ft) | |altitude= 762 m (2,500 ft) | ||
|presentname= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgaum Belgaum] | |presentname= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgaum Belgaum] | ||
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[[Image:St Mary's Church, Belgaum.jpg|right|thumb|200px|''Interior St Mary's Church, Belgaum'']] | [[Image:St Mary's Church, Belgaum.jpg|right|thumb|200px|''Interior St Mary's Church, Belgaum'']] | ||
==Churches== | ==Churches== | ||
[ | [https://karnatakatourism.org/tour-item/st-marys-church/ St Mary's Church, Belgaum] Karnataka dept of tourism | ||
==Internment Camp== | ==Internment Camp== | ||
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/britishrule/troops/belgaum1860a.jpg Photograph: Interior of Barrack Room, Belgaum 1860] and [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/britishrule/troops/belgaum1860b.jpg another view of the Interior of Barrack Room, Belgaum] from [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/britishrule/troops/troops.html this page] of Prof Fran Pritchett’s Indian Routes website. Elsewhere these photographs are dated to between 1867 and 1870.<ref>Frogsmile <nowiki>http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=9898#p48901</nowiki> Barrack Room Belgaum ''Victorian Wars Forum'' 20 November 2014. No longer accessible.</ref> | |||
*[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/britishrule/troops/belgaum1860a.jpg Photograph: Interior of Barrack Room, Belgaum 1860] and [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/britishrule/troops/belgaum1860b.jpg another view of the Interior of Barrack Room, Belgaum] from [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/britishrule/troops/troops.html this page] of Prof Fran Pritchett’s Indian Routes website. Elsewhere these photographs are dated to between 1867 and 1870.<ref>Frogsmile | *[http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/postingspicsind.html Postcard: The Cantonment Garden, Belgaum] The Army Children Archive (TACA). | ||
*[http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/postingspicsind.html Postcard: The Cantonment Garden, Belgaum] The Army Children Archive (TACA). | *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160418023728/http://www.nhpendall.webspace.virginmedia.com/fpdiary.htm The Diary of Frederick Pendall], a member of the [[9th Regiment of Foot|Norfolk regiment]] who was in Belgaum from March 1917 to March 1918. Now an archived webpage. | ||
====Historical books online==== | |||
====Historical books | |||
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V07_162.gif Belgaum Town] Imperial Gazetteer | *[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V07_162.gif Belgaum Town] Imperial Gazetteer | ||
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924070623727#page/n5/mode/2up Belgaum] Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency Vol XXI 1884 | *[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924070623727#page/n5/mode/2up Belgaum] Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency Vol XXI 1884 | ||
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bVkoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA412 Belgaum c 1827] page 412 ''The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle'' 1828 Google Books | *[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bVkoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA412 Belgaum c 1827] page 412 ''The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle'' 1828 Google Books | ||
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=DkUUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA360 "London Missionary Society: Summary View of the Mission at Belgaum"] page 360 ''Missionary Register for 1832, Church Missionary Society'' Google Books | *[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=DkUUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA360 "London Missionary Society: Summary View of the Mission at Belgaum"] page 360 ''Missionary Register for 1832, Church Missionary Society'' Google Books | ||
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=SD1cAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA33 Belgaum September 1840] page 33 ''The Diary of Sergeant William Hall, …, late of Her Majesty’s Forty-First Regiment, containing The Incidents connected with two years campaign in Scinde and Affghanistan during the late War''. c 1848 Google Books | *[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=SD1cAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA33 Belgaum September 1840] page 33 ''The Diary of Sergeant William Hall, …, late of Her Majesty’s Forty-First Regiment, containing The Incidents connected with two years campaign in Scinde and Affghanistan during the late War''. c 1848 Google Books | ||
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/450/mode/2up Belgaum] page 450 ''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 | |||
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=pYAIAAAAQAAJ&dq=belgaum&pg=PP5 ''Sanitary report on the town of Belgaum dated 31 December 1868''] Google Books | *[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=pYAIAAAAQAAJ&dq=belgaum&pg=PP5 ''Sanitary report on the town of Belgaum dated 31 December 1868''] Google Books | ||
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CF5BAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Archaeological Survey of Western India : Report of the First Season's Operations in the Belgam and Kaladgi Districts: January to May 1874''] by James Burgess 1874 Google Books | |||
*''My Year in an Indian Fort'' by Mrs Guthrie published 1877 [https://archive.org/details/myyearinindianfo01guthuoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/myyearinindianfo02guthuoft Volume II] Archive.org | |||
:''Life in Western India'' by Mrs Guthrie published 1881 [https://archive.org/details/lifeinwesternin00guthgoog Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/lifeinwesternin01guthgoog Volume II] Archive,org | |||
:*[https://archive.org/stream/lifeinwesternin00guthgoog#page/n202/mode/2up Page 184], Volume I relates to Belgaum. | |||
:The author is stated to be Katharine [or more accurately Katherine] Blanche Guthrie. It appears she was staying in India with her daughter Margaret and her daughter's husband, Major William Augustus Gillespie,<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/historyoforigina02whit#page/155/mode/1up Page 155] ''An history of the original Parish of Whalley, and honor of Clitheroe, to which is subjoined an account of the Parish of Cartmell, Volume 2'', 4th ed. rev. and enl. by Thomas Whitaker 1876 Archive.org.</ref> Staff Corps, Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (for Musketry), Belgaum.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Tw8LAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA414 Page 414] ''The India List Civil and Military January 1876'' Google Books.</ref> It is stated his garden was the "finest in Belgaum". | |||
*''Indian Embers'' by Lady Lawrence, first published 1948. Includes some chapters about Belgaum. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.136064/page/n15 Archive.org]; [https://archive.org/details/indianembers00lawr/page/n3 1991 reprint Archive.org Lending Library edition] with an "Introduction" by Kenneth Wimmel, [https://archive.org/details/indianembers00lawr_0 2nd file]. "Jane Rosamund Napier was already a published author...when she married Henry Lawrence in 1914 and set sail with him for India. She was his second wife...a mature woman of thirty-six..." The book covers the period to 1918. Her husband was a member of the Indian Civil Service, served as a district officer, and was Commissioner in Sind in 1918. Per Wikipedia, Henry Staveley Lawrence was acting Governor of Bombay 20 March 1926 to 8 December 1928. | |||
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| Belgaum | |
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| Presidency: Bombay | |
| Coordinates: | 15°51'00.0"N 74°30'00.0"E |
| Altitude: | 762 m (2,500 ft) |
| Present Day Details | |
| Place Name: | Belgaum |
| State/Province: | Karnataka |
| Country: | India |
| Transport links | |
| Southern Mahratta Railway | |
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| See our interactive map of this location showing places of interest during the British period | |
| Belgaum |
Belgaum came under the control of the British in 1818 at the end of the 3rd Maratha War when the Maratha empire was broken up. It was the headquarters of Belgaum District in the Southern division of Bombay Presidency during the British period.
A cantonment was located there.
Spelling variants
Modern name: Belgaum
Variants: Belgaon, Belgam
Military history
Siege of Belgaum 1818
Churches
St Mary's Church, Belgaum Karnataka dept of tourism
Internment Camp
There was an internment camp in Belgaum for German and Austrian civilians during the First World War. For more details see POW Camps in India
External links
- Photograph: Interior of Barrack Room, Belgaum 1860 and another view of the Interior of Barrack Room, Belgaum from this page of Prof Fran Pritchett’s Indian Routes website. Elsewhere these photographs are dated to between 1867 and 1870.[1]
- Postcard: The Cantonment Garden, Belgaum The Army Children Archive (TACA).
- The Diary of Frederick Pendall, a member of the Norfolk regiment who was in Belgaum from March 1917 to March 1918. Now an archived webpage.
Historical books online
- Belgaum Town Imperial Gazetteer
- Belgaum Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency Vol XXI 1884
- Belgaum c 1827 page 412 The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle 1828 Google Books
- "London Missionary Society: Summary View of the Mission at Belgaum" page 360 Missionary Register for 1832, Church Missionary Society Google Books
- Belgaum September 1840 page 33 The Diary of Sergeant William Hall, …, late of Her Majesty’s Forty-First Regiment, containing The Incidents connected with two years campaign in Scinde and Affghanistan during the late War. c 1848 Google Books
- Belgaum page 450 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
- Sanitary report on the town of Belgaum dated 31 December 1868 Google Books
- Archaeological Survey of Western India : Report of the First Season's Operations in the Belgam and Kaladgi Districts: January to May 1874 by James Burgess 1874 Google Books
- My Year in an Indian Fort by Mrs Guthrie published 1877 Volume I, Volume II Archive.org
- Life in Western India by Mrs Guthrie published 1881 Volume I, Volume II Archive,org
- Page 184, Volume I relates to Belgaum.
- The author is stated to be Katharine [or more accurately Katherine] Blanche Guthrie. It appears she was staying in India with her daughter Margaret and her daughter's husband, Major William Augustus Gillespie,[2] Staff Corps, Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (for Musketry), Belgaum.[3] It is stated his garden was the "finest in Belgaum".
- Indian Embers by Lady Lawrence, first published 1948. Includes some chapters about Belgaum. Archive.org; 1991 reprint Archive.org Lending Library edition with an "Introduction" by Kenneth Wimmel, 2nd file. "Jane Rosamund Napier was already a published author...when she married Henry Lawrence in 1914 and set sail with him for India. She was his second wife...a mature woman of thirty-six..." The book covers the period to 1918. Her husband was a member of the Indian Civil Service, served as a district officer, and was Commissioner in Sind in 1918. Per Wikipedia, Henry Staveley Lawrence was acting Governor of Bombay 20 March 1926 to 8 December 1928.
References
- ↑ Frogsmile http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=9898#p48901 Barrack Room Belgaum Victorian Wars Forum 20 November 2014. No longer accessible.
- ↑ Page 155 An history of the original Parish of Whalley, and honor of Clitheroe, to which is subjoined an account of the Parish of Cartmell, Volume 2, 4th ed. rev. and enl. by Thomas Whitaker 1876 Archive.org.
- ↑ Page 414 The India List Civil and Military January 1876 Google Books.