Jubbulpore

Jubbulpore

Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates:	23.16527°N, 79.945545°E
Altitude:	1,393 m (4,570 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Jabalpur
State/Province:	Madhya Pradesh
Country:	India
Transport links
East Indian Railway Great Indian Peninsula Railway Bengal-Nagpur Railway

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Jubbulpore was the headquarters of Jubbulpore District in the Jubbulpore Division of Central Provinces during the British period.

The town was the meeting point in 1871 for the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (616 miles from Bombay) and the East Indian Railway (220 miles from Allahabad), and the completion of the first Bombay-Calcutta trunk railway line.

It is the location of the Gun Carriage Factory, the oldest Ordnance factory in Central India, commenced 1904.

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Jabalpur
Variants: Jubbulpore, Jubbalpore, Jubbelpore, Jabbalpore, Jabbelpore, Jabbulpore

Jubbulpore City Imperial Gazetteer of India
About Jubbulpore (click through to 4 pages) gokuldas.com
Gun Carriage Factory Jabalpur Wikipedia.
Photograph: Jubbalpore, Central India. Hotel c 1860 British Library Online Gallery
Image: Invitation to a banquet at Jubbulpore to mark the opening of the North East Extension of the G I P Railway March 1870. Includes the wording: "Tents will be provided but visitors should bring their own bedding…" Image 104 History of great indian railways by Aish Warya slideshare.net. Scroll down for the contents of the slideshow. Note the description for some image numbers does not match the image.
Burials at Jubbulpore Cantonment Cemetery Commonwealth War Graves Commission
"Dead & buried, and remembered too" by Shishir Arya, July 9, 2011 The Times of India. Mathura Pershad and Co. Jubbelpore provided many of the gravestones in Jubbelpore in the days of the British Raj.