Ahmadnagar
| Ahmadnagar | |
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| Presidency: Bombay | |
| Coordinates: | 19.095003°N 74.756679°E |
| Altitude: | 649 m (2,129 ft) |
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| Place Name: | Ahmednagar |
| State/Province: | Maharashtra |
| Country: | India |
| Transport links | |
| Dhond-Manmad State Railway | |
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| See our interactive map of this location showing places of interest during the British period | |
| Ahmadnagar |
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Ahmadnagar was the headquarters of Broach District in the Central division of Bombay Presidency during the British period.
Ahmednagar Fort, in Ahmednagar city, was the centre of the British cantonment used by artillery and infantry units, primarily between 1849 and 1921. In 1913 a Remount Depot was established to house 500 horses. In 1921, six Armoured Car companies were based there and in 1924 a Royal Tank Corps School was established at Ahmednagar. This School was the forerunner of the Fighting Vehicle School, and the area is now occupied by the Indian Armament & Electronics Regiment.
A remote hillside about six miles outside the city at Arangaon was leased by the British Indian Army towards the end of the First World War to house two (plague) segregation camps, supervised by the 2nd/102nd King Edward's Own Grenadiers and the 2nd/128th Pioneers of the Indian Army in 1919 on what later became known as Meherabad Hill.[1]
Ahmednagar was also the location of the Machine Gun School from the early 1920s.
Spelling Variants
Modern name: Ahmednagar
Variants: Ahmednuggur/Ahmadnagat
History
Military history
Prisoner of War Camps at Ahmednagar
There was a Boer POW camp during and after the Boer War, and a POW/internment camp for civilians during the First World War
See POW Camps in India
Churches
- Christ Church, Ahmednagar
- There was a memorial for the 2nd Garrison Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. “Officers, NCO's and men who died at Ahmednagar 1917 -1919. 42 names." [2] It is not known whether this memorial still exists.
External links
- Ahmadnagar Imperial Gazetteer
- "Where freedom held fort" by Himmat Singh Gill Sunday, September 3, 2006 tribuneindia.com. The Ahmednagar Fort held political prisoners in the 1940s including Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
- Scroll down Incredible Ahmednagar, for details of the Tank Museum, established by the Armored Corps Centre and School, Ahmednagar in February 1994. Photographs on picasaweb rahul m’s Gallery, morakhandi v’s Gallery. Article "Tanks down the years" by Rajendra Rajan, tribuneindia.com Sunday, May 24, 2009
- Ahmednagar: Fort: Boer And German POWs Held By The British YouTube Video. Contains some cemetery images.
- YouTube videos from the National Army Museum
Historical books online
- "Ahmadnagar City" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 5, page 123.
- Ahmednuggur, in the Deccan, is listed in a List of all the military stations in the Bombay Presidency, with details, page 235 Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, Volume VII, New Series 1861 Google Books
- Tales of Ahmednagar by Captain Cecil Cowley, 2nd Garrison Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 1919 Archive.org. History of Ahmednagar, mostly for the pre British period.
References
- ↑ Greveson, Alan. Alan Greveson's World War 1 Forum Reply dated Tuesday 20th November 2012 at 9:16 pm regarding buildings purchased at an abandoned military camp by early followers of Meher Baba in the 1920s.
- ↑ FIBIS Database Group Memorials, Percy-Smith/Bullock Papers. Individual names do not appear to be available.