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'''Nusseerabad''' was a cantonment
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'''Nusseerabad''' was a cantonment in Ajmer district in the Indian state of Rajasthan in Central India
  
 
== Spelling Variants ==
 
== Spelling Variants ==
Modern name: Nasirabad<br>
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Modern name: '''Nasirabad'''<br>
Variants: Nusseerabad
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Variants:'''Nusseerabad''',  '''Nusserabad''', '''Naseerabad''' (Note there appear to be a number of towns with these names)
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==FIBIS Resources==
 
==FIBIS Resources==
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==External Links==
 
==External Links==
 
====Historical books online====
 
====Historical books online====
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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://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
 
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*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
 
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Revision as of 13:13, 1 August 2011

Nusseerabad
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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
Transport links

Nusseerabad was a cantonment in Ajmer district in the Indian state of Rajasthan in Central India

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Nasirabad
Variants:Nusseerabad, Nusserabad, Naseerabad (Note there appear to be 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.

See also

External Links

Historical books online