Ghazipur

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"

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Modern name: Ghazipur

Variants: Ghazipore, Ghazipoor, Ghazepore, Ghazeepore, Ghazeepoor

External links

• Ghazipur Wikipedia
• Ghazipur Town Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 12, page 230.
• Ghazepore, page 74 The United Service Magazine, Part 3 1858 Google Books
• North-Western Provinces: Historical and Statistical Memoir of the Ghazeepoor District by Wilton Oldham

Part I 1870 Google Books Part II- History of Ghazeepoor and the Benares Province from 1781 A.D. to 1795 A.D 1876 Archive.org

• “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