Belgaum

Belgaum
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Presidency: Bombay
Coordinates:	15.850362°N 74.504672°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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Belgaum

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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

Military history

Siege of Belgaum 1818

Interior St Mary's Church, Belgaum

Churches

St Mary's Church, Belgaum Bombay Diocesan Trust

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

• Belgaum Town Imperial Gazetteer
  
• 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.
• Postcard: The Cantonment Garden, Belgaum The Army Children Archive (TACA). A slightly larger version advising that the bandstand is shown. www.stamps-auction.com
• The Diary of Frederick Pendall, a member of the Norfolk regiment who was in Belgaum from March 1917 to March 1918

Historical books on-line

• Belgaum Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency Vol XXI 1884
• "London Missionary Society: Summary View of the Mission at Belgaum" page 360 ‪Missionary Register‬ for 1832, Church Missionary Society Google Books
• Sanitary report on the town of Belgaum dated 31 December 1868 Google Books