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Modern name: Ghazipur | Modern name: Ghazipur | ||
Variants: Ghazipore, Ghazeepore | Variants: Ghazipore, Ghazipoor, Ghazeepore, Ghazeepoor | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
Revision as of 06:28, 26 June 2011
Ghazipur is situated on the left bank of the Ganges and was on a branch of the Bengal and North-Western Railway, and also connected by a steam ferry with the terminus of a branch of the East Indian Railway
"Ghazipur is the head-quarters of the Opium Agent for the United Provinces, and the opium factory is situated here... Its main function is to prepare opium for the Chinese market, where it is known as Benares opium"
Spelling variants
Modern name: Ghazipur
Variants: Ghazipore, Ghazipoor, Ghazeepore, Ghazeepoor
External links
- Ghazipur Wikipedia
- Ghazipur Town Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 12, page 230.
- “The manufacture and sale of opium and opium alkaloids at the Ghazipur factory” by S. K. Vardhan Manager, Government Opium and Alkaloids Factory, Ghazipur (U.P.). written in 1956
