Meerut
| Meerut | |
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| Presidency: Bengal | |
| Coordinates: | 28.99°N 77.7°E |
| Altitude: | 225 m (737 ft) |
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| Place Name: | Meerut |
| State/Province: | Uttar Pradesh |
| Country: | India |
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Meerut was the headquarters of Meerut District in the Meerut Division of United Provinces during the British period. It was the location of an important military garrison.
Military history
Mutiny at Meerut May 1857
Churches
- Photograph of St John's Garrison Church - Meerut - 1822 taken in 2009 flickr.com (also see image in info box)
- Photograph of St Joseph's Church - Meerut – 1826 taken in 2009 flickr.com
- Photograph of St Paul's Methodist Church - Meerut – 1924 taken in 2009 flickr.com
Cemeteries
- FIBIS RESOURCES
- Meerut Cantonment Cemetery Inscriptions and images from FIBIS database
- St John's Cemetery Few inscriptions and images held on FIBIS database
- BACSA (British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia) cemetery publications are
- Meerut: The First Sixty Years (1815-1875) by Alan Harfield, 1992 MIs and burial registers. Also a complete listing of the British and Indian regiments there along with a history of the garrison.
- Meerut Part II (1876-1939) by Alan Harfield, 1999 MIs and Burial Registers of Cantonment Cemetery; also Race Course Cemetery and Military Memorials.
- See BACSA Books.
- BACSA have put the indexes to these cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.
External links
- "Meerut City" Imperial Gazetteer
- General View Royal Field Artillery (R.F.A.) Barracks, Meerut 1910 Postcard from Images of Asia
Historical books online
- Meerut: A Gazetteer, Being Volume IV of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh Compiled and edited by H. R. Nevill, I.C.S 1904 Archive.org
- "Meerut City", page 271
- The cantonment, page 275