Nasirabad, Rajputana

Nasirabad, Rajputana
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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
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Nasirabad was a cantonment in Ajmer district in the Indian state of Rajasthan in Central India.

The Barracks was called Inkerman Barracks.

There was a cemetery located just outside the cantonment, beside the railway station.

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Nasirabad
Variants:Nusseerabad/Nusserabad/Naseerabad (Note there are 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.

Related articles

• Mutiny at Nusseerabad

External Links

• Photo Gallery: Accommodation for Soldiers and Officers King's Own Royal Regiment Museum. Scroll down to a photograph titled "Sergeants Mess, 2nd Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Nasirabad, 1895".

Historical books online

• "Nasirabad Town (3)" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 18, page 414.
• 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
• The cantonment in 1866 is mentioned briefly at the bottom of 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
• Nasirabad cantonment page 118 Rajputana District Gazetteers: Volume I-A Ajmer Merwara by C C Watson, ICS 1904 Archive.org
• Page 139 Flies in Relation to Disease: non-bloodsucking flies by G. S. Graham- Smith. 1913 Archive.org. In 1903 the Seaforth Highlanders, stationed at Nasirabad, suffered from a very bad epidemic of typhoid fever.