Dinapore
| Dinapore | |
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| Presidency: Bengal | |
| Coordinates: | 25.633333°N, 85.05°E |
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| Present Day Details | |
| Place Name: | Danapur |
| State/Province: | Bihar |
| Country: | India |
| Transport links | |
| East Indian Railway | |
Dinapore was a British garrison town in the 19th century. It is now called Danapur and is in Bihar state. It is about 10km north-west of Patna, and 500km north-west of Calcutta.
Spelling Variants
Modern name: Danapur
Variants: Dinapore/Dinapur
Churches
- St Luke (Anglican)
Transport
The East Indian Railway had a locomotive workshop at Dinapore.
External links
- "Of cemetery & its sorry saga - Slice of British history lies buried and lost in absence of records" by Piyush Kumar Tripathi 22 November 2014 The Telegraph. St Stephen’s Catholic Cemetery in Danapur Cantonment.
Historical books online
- Dinapore Town Imperial Gazetteer
- The cantonment at Dinapore, page 293 Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862 Google Books
- Dinapore page 358 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
