Allahabad
| Allahabad | |
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| Presidency: Bengal | |
| Coordinates: | 25.432248°N 81.870215°E |
| Altitude: | 98 m (322 ft) |
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| Place Name: | Allahabad |
| State/Province: | Uttar Pradesh |
| Country: | India |
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| East Indian Railway Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway | |
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| See our interactive map of this location showing places of interest during the British period | |
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Allahabad was the headquarters of Allahabad District in the Allahabad Division of United Provinces during the British period. See United Provinces Districts.
Spelling variants
Modern spelling: Allahabad
Variants: Ilahabad
History
Allahabad became the capital of the newly formed United Provinces after the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58. The High Court of Judicature for the North-Western Provinces was located in Allahabad.
The High Court of Judicature for the North-Western Provinces was transferred to Allahabad from Agra in 1869. In 1887, the University of Allahabad was founded and All Saints Cathedral was consecrated.
Military history
Churches and missions
- Anglican
- All Saints Cathedral, Cannington. Some photos of exterior at All Saints Cathedral (Beautiful Indian Churches blogspot).
- 1887–All Saints Cathedral, Allahabad archiseek.com
- Holy Trinity, Church Road
- St David's, Cantonment
- Roman Catholic
- St Joseph's, Thornhill Road
- Other denominations
- St Andrew's, Church of Scotland, Elgin Road
- Baptist Church, Elgin Road
- Missions
- Church Mission Society, St Paul's Church
- Divinity College
- The Baptist, American Methodist Episcopal and Zenana
Education
- Colvin Free School established c 1893 as a school for orphan boys and accommodated more than 30 boys at that time. [1]. It was amalgamated in 1936 with Boys High School. [2].
FIBIS Resources
- Trancriptions and images from Memorials and Gravestones in Allahabad - including Holy Trinity Church, Muir Road (Civil Lines) Cemetery and Kydganj no 1 cemetery FIBIS database. One set of transcriptions is from the British Library records IOR/R/4/539 List of inscriptions in Uttar Pradesh. Also includes Rajapur Cemetery, one of the graveyards for which FIBIS commissioned Mr Rajat Sharma to take photographs and details of all legible headstones, see FIBIS Cemeteries Project.
Railways
Allahabad was an important junction on the main line of the East Indian Railway. Here, the line from Calcutta bifurcated with one line running north to Delhi and the other south-west to Jubbulpore where there was an end-to-end connection with the Great Indian Peninsula Railway's main line from Bombay. In 1925, when both the EIR and GIPR became state railways, the section from Jubbulpore to Allahabad was transferred to the GIPR. The Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway had a terminus at Allahabad.
External links
- Allahabad Town Imperial Gazetteer of India
- The World's First Official Post By Aeroplane Allahabad, India, Saturday 18th February 1911 by Ken Harman www.studygroup.org, now archived.
- Allahabad Bible Seminary 17 July 2012 Beautiful Indian Churches
- 1886–Muir College, Allahabad archiseek.com
- Cantonment Cemetery Allahabad
- Muir Road Civil Cemetery Allahabad with Photograph of the entrance. This cemetery is known to locals as "Rajapur Cemetery" or "Rajapur Kabristaan" (in Hindi).
- Both findagrave.com. There also appear to be some smaller cemeteries in Allahabad, with details of only a few graves listed on findagrave.com, which may be located using the Search.
- An Indian Pilgrimage by Martin Everett. rorkesdriftvc.com. Appears to be written 2003 or earlier, as there is an archived version from this date. This article describes a Regimental Memorial, located in the old cantonment cemetery at Allahabad, on the west side of the city, dedicated to those soldiers and families of the 24th Regiment who died of fever at Ranikhet and Allahabad from 1889 to 1891. It also mentions another cemetery "full of dead engine drivers from Central India Railways".
Historical books online
- Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies by Mrs. Kindersley 1777 Archive.org. The letters from India commence with Letter 18 in Pondicherry June 1765 and conclude with letter 67 from Calcutta in 1768. Most of Letters 27-63 were written from Allahabad 1767-1768. Jemima Kindersley, (1741-1809). Wife of Lieutenant Nathaniel Kindersley (1732–1769) of the Royal Artillery and later, from 27 July 1764, Captain in the East India Company's Bengal Artillery. Jemima Kindersley Wikipedia.
- "Mofussil Stations: No VI- Allahabad" page 97, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, Vol 11, New Series, May-Aug 1833 Google Books.
- Allahabad page 363 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
- "The relative health of the right and left wings of the 58th Regiment" [at Allahabad] by Surgeon EL Lundy M.D., 58th Regiment, page 346 Army Medical Department Report for the year 1869 Google Books. It appears that the New Cantonment at Allahabad was completed about this time i.e. c 1869.
- "India: Bengal. Report" "Asiatic Cholera" by C. Macnamara, Medical Officer-in-Charge of the "Chandnie" Hospital, Calcutta, and Surgeon to the Ophthalmic Hospital. Contains references to the 58th Regiment and cholera at Allahabad in 1869. Page 101. Reports on the progress of practical and scientific medicine, ed. by H. Dobell, Volume 2, 1871. Google Books
- Allahabad: a Gazetteer being Volume XXIII of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh by H R Nevill 1911 Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library, Government of India.