Ambala
| Ambala | |
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| Presidency: Bengal | |
| Coordinates: | 30.38°N 76.78°E |
| Altitude: | 264 m (866 ft) |
| Present Day Details | |
| Place Name: | Ambala |
| State/Province: | Haryana |
| Country: | India |
| Transport links | |
Umballa is now known as Ambala and is a large town in the Punjab. The Umballa Cantonment was established in the year 1843 after the British abandoned its cantonment at Kurnaul, following the malaria epidemic of 1841-42.
Churches
The cantonment church is called St Paul's and it has a large graveyard and war memorial. St Paul’s Church, ‘an edifice which has been much admired’ was designed by Captain George Atkinson of the Bengal Engineers, according to this Archives,org link. He was the author of Curry & rice' on forty plates : or, The ingredients of social life at 'our station' in India, published 1860, refer Society reading list, which may have been based on life in the cantonment at Umballa.
St Paul's Church was bombed in 1965 and is now in ruins.
External Links
- Ambala Wikipedia
- Ambala Cantonment Wikipedia
- Umballa in 1845 Missionary Register for 1845, page 527 Google Books
- Umballa is mentioned in Around the world on a bicycle Volume 2: From Teheran to Yokohama, page 299 by Thomas Stevens 1888 Archive.org
- Gazetteers Of Haryana, previously part of Bengal. Haryana Government website. Includes Ambala District 1883-84, 1892, 1923-24, the latter available as a searchable pdf.
- Paul’s Church Ambala by Ramesh Lalwani 4 December 2005 mangalorean.com