Bellary

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Bellary
Presidency: Madras (Presidency)
Coordinates: 15.150000°N, 76.933300°E
Altitude: 444 m (1,457 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Bellary
State/Province: Karnataka
Country: India
Transport links
Southern Mahratta Railway
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places of interest during the British period
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Bellary was the headquarters of Bellary District in the Southern Division of Madras during the British period.

There was a School of Musketry located at Bellary c1901 [1]

Cemeteries

FIBIS Resources

Historical books online

  • Bellary Imperial Gazetteer
  • List of European Tombs in the Bellary District with Inscriptions thereon compiled by J J Cotton (1894). Held on website of Barry Lewis.
  • Bellary c 1827 Page 410 The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle 1828 Google Books
  • Bellary October 1838 page 13 The Diary of Sergeant William Hall, …, late of Her Majesty’s Forty-First Regiment, containing The Incidents connected with two years campaign in Scinde and Affghanistan during the late War. c 1848 Google Books
  • Bellary page 70, The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal Volume 68 1847. The cantonment was classified as one of the "Stations on the Table Lands"
  • 74th Highlanders at Bellary page 277 Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862 Google Books
  • Manual of the Bellary District by John Kelsall, Madras Civil Service, Acting Sub-Collector, North Arcot 1872. Hathi Trust Digital Library

References

  1. Photograph reference D/DLI 2/2/136(8) : Group photograph of officers and soldiers at a School of Musketry, taken at Bellary, India, 1901 Durham County Record Office