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'''Muttra''' was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V18_068.gif Muttra District] in the Agra Division of United Provinces during the British period. Today it is a city of some 2.5 million people on the right bank of the Jumna in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
A cantonment was established in 1804. The Royal Artillery Training Centre was established in 1935.
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*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V18_078.gif Muttra City] Imperial Gazetteer<br>*[http://www.1911encyclopediacbmathura.org/History.aspx Cantt Board Mathura: History] A cantonment was established in 1804. The Royal Artillery Training Centre was established in 1935.*[http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/26th-october-1878/14/muttra-chapel-nwp-india Muttra Chapel, N.W.P. India]. Page 14, 26th October 1878 ''The Tablet'' The International Catholic News Weekly*First two pages of an article [http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/article/10.1680/imotp.1913.17513 Bridges on the Northern Section of the Nagda-MuttraState Railway] by John Kerr Robertson, ICE ''Minutes of the Proceedings, Volume 193, Issue 1913, 01 January 1913'' , pages 331 –346**The opening of the Nagda-Muttra State Railway to through traffic in October, 1909, marked the completion of an important addition to the railway system of India. Leaving the Godhra-Rutlam Nagda Railway at Nagda, the new railway runs almost due north, through Central India and the Rajputana States, to Muttra, where it forms a junction with the Agra-Delhi chord railway.*Images of [http://www.1911encyclopediacolumbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1400_1499/krishnabhakti/mathura/mathura.html Mathura] from Professor Pritchett’s website Indian Routes*[http://trochronicles.blogspot.com/2010/03/hog-sticking-raj-style-pt-ii.html Hog Sticking Raj Style! Part II] mentions the Muttra Tent Club.*[http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-mutra-cup-meeting-aka-the-muttra-cup-meeting/query/cup Video: The Muttra Cup Meeting India’s Largest Pig-Sticking Contest] 1 min 33sec preview British Pathe===Historical books online===*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=U6_bUukB-nIC&pg=PA469 Muttra] page 469 ''The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842 Volume II'' Google Books*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bEsEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA543 Muttra] page 543 ''The Baptist Magazine for 1843'' Google Books*[https://archive.org/details/mathurdistrict00growrich ''Mathura; a District Memoir''] by Frederic Salmon Growse, 1883 Archive.org**[https://archive.org/stream/mathurdistrict00growrich#page/158/mode/2up Chapter VII "The City of Mathura: The European Institutions and Museum"] page 159. Includes a photograph of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church*[https://archive.org/details/reportonsettlem00whitgoog ''Report on the Settlement of the Muttra District, North-Western Provinces (1879)''] by R. S. Whiteway Bengal Civil Service 1879 Archive.org *[http://en.brajdiscovery.org/index.php?title=Mathura_A_Gazetteer-1 Transcription of ''Mathura: A Gazetteer''],
edited and compiled by D.L. Drake-Brockman 1911 brajdiscovery.org
*''The Personal Adventures and Experiences of a Magistrate During the Rise, Progress, and Suppression of the Indian Mutiny'' by Mark Thornhill 1884 is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. Also available as a current reprint by Cambridge University Press [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=7ihP7E49bDYC&pg=PP1 Preview Google Books]. The author was the Magistrate at Muttra
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