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Ajmer
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates:	26.441°N 74.641°E
Altitude:	486 m (1,594 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Ajmer
State/Province:	Rajasthan
Country:	India
Transport links
Rajputana-Malwa State Railway Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway

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Ajmer City was the administrative headquarters of Ajmer District in the province of Ajmer-Merwara. It is now the largest city in Rajasthan.

Modern name: Ajmer
Variants: Ajmere/Ajaymeru

There was a cantonment at Ajmer, and elsewhere in the province at Nasirabad (14 miles away) and Deoli. Further details are given in this link^[1]

Ajmere Love to Know 1911
Ajmer 1933-40 Life in a railway colony from An Indian Childhood by Eugene Blanchette born 1933 from his website.
My Indian summer The author’s mother lived in Ajmer, where her father was a senior railway foreman, until Independence. www.guardian.co.uk 22 October 2011

↑ "Army: Ajmer- Merwara Province" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 5, page 165.

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-'''Ajmer City''' was the administrative headquarters of the Ajmer District in British Indian province of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V05_145.gif Ajmer-Merwara]. It is now the largest city in Rajasthan.
+'''Ajmer City''' was the administrative headquarters of Ajmer District in the province of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V05_145.gif Ajmer-Merwara]. It is now the largest city in Rajasthan.
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