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*Umballa in 1845 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bcwoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA527 Missionary Register for 1845], page 527 | |||
Revision as of 11:00, 16 January 2010
Umballa is now known as Ambala and is a large town in the Punjab. The Umballa Cantonment was established in the year 1843 after the British abandoned its cantonment at Kurnaul, following the malaria epidemic of 1841-42.
The cantonment church is called St Paul's and it has a large graveyard and war memorial. St Paul’s Church, ‘an edifice which has been much admired’ was designed by Captain George Atkinson of the Bengal Engineers, according to this Archives,org link He was the author of'Curry & rice' on forty plates : or, The ingredients of social life at 'our station' in India, published 1860, refer Society reading list, which may have been based on life in the cantonment at Umballa.
External Links
- Ambala Wikipedia
- Ambala Cantonment] Wikipedia
- Umballa in 1845 Missionary Register for 1845, page 527