Nasirabad, Rajputana

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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.[1]

There was a cemetery located just outside the cantonment, beside the railway station.[2]

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.

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External Links

Historical books online

References

  1. Charles Dixon 1871- 1918
  2. John Sworder's article