Barrackpore
| Barrackpore | |
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| Presidency: Bengal | |
| Coordinates: | 22.769078°N 88.352205°E |
| Altitude: | 15 m (49 ft) |
| Present Day Details | |
| Place Name: | Barrackpur |
| State/Province: | West Bengal |
| Country: | India |
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Barrackpore, about 15 miles from Calcutta, became the site of the first British barracks in India in 1772. Later, the town also housed the residence of the Viceroy. The cantonment was the scene of the Barrackpore Mutiny in 1824 and also the 1857 incident with Mangal Pandey that is often said to have started the Indian Mutiny.
Spelling variants
Modern name: Barrackpur
Variants: Barrackpore
Churches
- St Bartholomew (Anglican)
External links
- Barrackpore Wikipedia (retrieved 17 May 2016)
- Mangal Pandey Wikipedia (retrieved 17 May 2016)
- Cantonment Board Barrackpore
- Graves of Jute Mill managers buried in India Dundee Heritage Trust. Includes wives. Contains twenty five records at the Scottish Cemetery in Calcutta, fourteen at Barrackpore Cemetery and one of Tollygunge Cemetery. Graves date from 1881 to 1951, covering workers at the four of the major Indian mills - Titaghur, Samnuggur, Angus and Victoria.
- Photograph: RFA Barracks Barrackpore, Bengal 1916, now archived. Note this photo appears on a public page on Ancestry with the description "RFABarracksBarrackpore, Bengal 1916". From a collection of Photographs of Francis Down, 218th Brigade, RFA. Picasaweb, archived.
Historical books online
- Barrackpore Imperial Gazetteer
- "Mofussil Stations: No IX Barrackpore and Dum Dum" page 17 The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, Volume 13, New Series January-April 1834 Google Books
- The cantonment at Barrackpore, page 287 Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862 Google Books
- Barrackpore page 351 Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations 1864 Archive.org
- "Barrackpore Government House" page 1, British Government In India: The Story of the Viceroys and Government Houses, Volume Two, by the Marquis Curzon of Kedleston, K.G. , Viceroy and Governor General of India Jan.1899-May 1904, and Dec. 1904-Nov.1905. 1925 Archive.org
- Barrackpore page 19 A Traveler's Tale : Memories of India by Enid Saunders Candlin 1974. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The author’s husband was a metallurgist/chemical engineer who worked for the Inspectorate of Armaments in ordnance factories at Ishapore and Ambernath (Bombay Presidency) 1941-46.
