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*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V18_420.gif "Nasirabad Town (3)"] I''mperial Gazetteer of India'', Volume 18, page 414. | *[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V18_420.gif "Nasirabad Town (3)"] I''mperial Gazetteer of India'', Volume 18, page 414. | ||
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=y1cOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA78 ''The modern traveller: a popular description, geographical, historical, and topographical of the various countries of the globe, India Volume 4''] 1828, page 78 Google Books | *[http://books.google.com/books?id=y1cOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA78 ''The modern traveller: a popular description, geographical, historical, and topographical of the various countries of the globe, India Volume 4''] 1828, page 78 Google Books | ||
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=7HEBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ''The Mutinies in Rajpootana, being personal narrative of the Mutiny at Nusseerabad, with subsequent residence at Jodhpore, and journey across the desert into Sind, together with an account of the outbreak at Neemuch, and mutiny of the Jodhpore Legion at Erinpoora, and attack on Mount Aboo''] by Iltudus Thomas Prichard. late of the Bengal Army 1860 Google Books | |||
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/464/mode/2up "Nusseerabad"] page 465 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org | *[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/464/mode/2up "Nusseerabad"] page 465 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org | ||
*The cantonment in 1866 is mentioned briefly at the bottom of [http://www.archive.org/stream/indiaitsnativepr00rousuoft#page/212/mode/2up page 213] ''India and its native princes. Travels in Central India and in the presidencies of Bombay and Bengal'' by Louis Rousselet New edition 1882 Archive.org | *The cantonment in 1866 is mentioned briefly at the bottom of [http://www.archive.org/stream/indiaitsnativepr00rousuoft#page/212/mode/2up page 213] ''India and its native princes. Travels in Central India and in the presidencies of Bombay and Bengal'' by Louis Rousselet New edition 1882 Archive.org | ||
Revision as of 08:22, 27 September 2015
| Nasirabad, Rajputana | |
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| Presidency: Bengal | |
| Coordinates: | 26.297436°N 74.735731°E |
| Altitude: | 429 m (1,407 ft) |
| Present Day Details | |
| Place Name: | Nasirabad |
| State/Province: | Rajasthan |
| Country: | India |
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Nasirabad was a cantonment in Ajmer district in the Indian state of Rajasthan in Central India.
The Barracks was called Inkerman Barracks.[1]
There was a cemetery located just outside the cantonment, beside the railway station.[2]
Spelling Variants
Modern name: Nasirabad
Variants:Nusseerabad/Nusserabad/Naseerabad (Note there are a number of towns with these names)
FIBIS Resources
"Life in a British Cantonment in India: Nasirabad, 1929-1930" by John Sworder FIBIS Journal Number 23 (Spring 2010), pages 40-48. For details of how to access this article, refer FIBIS Journals.
Related articles
External Links
- Photo Gallery: Accommodation for Soldiers and Officers King's Own Royal Regiment Museum. Scroll down to a photograph titled "Sergeants Mess, 2nd Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Nasirabad, 1895".
Historical books online
- "Nasirabad Town (3)" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 18, page 414.
- The modern traveller: a popular description, geographical, historical, and topographical of the various countries of the globe, India Volume 4 1828, page 78 Google Books
- The Mutinies in Rajpootana, being personal narrative of the Mutiny at Nusseerabad, with subsequent residence at Jodhpore, and journey across the desert into Sind, together with an account of the outbreak at Neemuch, and mutiny of the Jodhpore Legion at Erinpoora, and attack on Mount Aboo by Iltudus Thomas Prichard. late of the Bengal Army 1860 Google Books
- "Nusseerabad" page 465 Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations 1864 Archive.org
- The cantonment in 1866 is mentioned briefly at the bottom of page 213 India and its native princes. Travels in Central India and in the presidencies of Bombay and Bengal by Louis Rousselet New edition 1882 Archive.org
- Nasirabad cantonment page 118 Rajputana District Gazetteers: Volume I-A Ajmer Merwara by C C Watson, ICS 1904 Archive.org
- Page 139 Flies in Relation to Disease: non-bloodsucking flies by G. S. Graham- Smith. 1913 Archive.org. In 1903 the Seaforth Highlanders, stationed at Nasirabad, suffered from a very bad epidemic of typhoid fever.
References
- ↑ Charles Dixon 1871- 1918
- ↑ John Sworder's article