Murshidabad

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Murshidabad
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 24.18°N 88.27E
Altitude:
Present Day Details
Place Name: Murshidabad
State/Province: West Bengal
Country: India
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Murshidabad was a large town in Murshidabad District in the Rajshahi division of Bengal during the British period.

It was the old capital of Bengal, before Calcutta became the capital.

C 1834[1] it was the one of the four locations of invalided European Veterans in Bengal (the others being Buxar, Chunar and Monghyr.) These men probably belonged to a Veterans' Battalion, similar to the Carnatic European Veteran Battalion in Madras Presidency.

Spelling variants

  • Murshidabad
  • Moorshedabad
  • Muxadabad

External links

Historical books online

  • Murshidabad Town Imperial Gazetteer
  • Moorshedabad page 437 The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842 Volume II Google Books
  • Murshidabad by L.S.S. O'Malley 1914 Archive.org . A book in the series Bengal District Gazetteers

References

  1. "Mofussil Stations: No XII - Monghyr" page 119 The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, Volume 14, New Series May-August 1834. Google Books