Ambala

Ambala
Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates:	30.38°N 76.78°E
Altitude:	264 m (866 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Ambala
State/Province:	Haryana
Country:	India
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Ambala was the headquarters of Ambala District in the Delhi Division of Punjab Province during the British period.The Ambala Cantonment was established in 1843 after the British abandoned its cantonment at Karnal, following the malaria epidemic of 1841-42.

It was a station on the North Western Railway

Spelling Variants

Modern spelling: Ambala
Variants: Umballa

FIBIS resources

• Photograph: Church, Amballa Cantonment from the FIBIS Gallery Album Railways / NWR/ H V O WATERS Collection
• Postcard: St Pauls, Ambala Sidney Malins Collection, FIBIS Gallery

Churches

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.

St Paul's Church was bombed in 1965 and is now in ruins.

Cemeteries

List and images of graves at Ambala Christian cemetery www.gravestonephotos.com (Scroll down for list)

External Links

• Ambala City Imperial Gazetteer of India
• Ambala Wikipedia
• Ambala Cantonment Wikipedia
• Gazetteers Of Haryana, previously part of Bengal. Haryana Government website. Includes Ambala District 1883-84, 1892, 1923-24, the latter available as a searchable pdf. revenueharyana.gov.in
• Paul’s Church Ambala by Ramesh Lalwani 4 December 2005 mangalorean.com
• "A peep into the history of Ambala" by Lt Gen Ranjit Singh (retd) April 6, 2014. tribuneindia.com (retrieved 21 April 2014). The Ambala Cantt with tree-lined roads and open spaces owes its origin to Capt Robert Napier, a Bengal Sappers officer
• RAF Ambala rafweb.org (retrieved 1 July 2014)

Historical books online

• Umballa in 1845 Missionary Register for 1845, page 527 Google Books
• "Topographical and Sanitary Report on Umballa and its vicinity, Upper India" by Dr Kendal, Surgeon, H. M.’s 7th Hussars, page 213 Army Medical Department: Statistical Sanitary and Medical Reports for the year 1859 (published 1861) Google Books
• Umballa is mentioned in Around the world on a bicycle Volume 2: From Teheran to Yokohama, page 299 by Thomas Stevens 1888 Archive.org