Dum Dum

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Dum Dum
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 22.62°N 88.42°E
Altitude: 11 m (36 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Dum Dum
State/Province: West Bengal
Country: India
Transport links
Eastern Bengal Railway

Dum Dum was a British cantonment town north of Calcutta that now constitutes a suburb of that city. It was the headquarters of the Bengal Artillery until this transferred to Meerut in 1853.

Churches

  • St Stephen (Anglican)

The Bengal Artillery and ammunition factory

The Bengal Artillery were at Dum Dum from 1775 and an ammunition factory was established in 1846.

Bandopadhyay's History of Gun and Shell Factory, Cossipore: Two Hundred Years of Ordnance Factories Production in India explains that the small arms cartridges known as 'Dum Dum' bullets were made at the Dum Dum factory and that the pre-Indian Mutiny trouble regarding greased cartridges started in this area. By 1858, the workshops at Dum Dum had merged to become the Cartridge and Precision Cap factory.[1] HIS Kanwar's Memories of Dum Dum provides further information on this topic.[2]

Second World War

There was an RAF Base at Dum Dum during WW2. It is now an Indian Air Force Station in Western Air Command and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, which serves nearby Kolkata

External links

Historical bools online

References

  1. Professor Arun Bandopadhyay History of Gun and Shell Factory, Cossipore: Two Hundred Years of Ordnance Factories Production in India (New Delhi, 2002)
  2. Hari Inder Singh Kanwar, Memories of Dum Dum (Reprinted from Bengal: Past and Present) (1961) The articles originally appeared 1953-1959.