Mount Abu

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Mount Abu
Presidency: Bombay
Coordinates: 24.5925°N 72.7083°E
Altitude: 1,220 m (4,000 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Mount Abu Mount Abu
State/Province: Rajasthan
Country: India
Transport links
Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway

Spelling variants

Mount Abu, Mount Aboo

FIBIS resources

Churches and Missions

  • St Saviour's Anglican Church (previously known as St Lawrence Church) Founded 1846
  • St Ann's (Roman Catholic) Founded 1870

Cemeteries

  • Christian cemetery has stones dating from c 1858

Schools

Cadet Regiment

There was a cadet company at Mount Abu, part of the 2nd Battalion, Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Volunteer Rifles.[1] There is no mention of a cadet company in the reminiscences of Kenneth Staynor (above), so perhaps the cadet company was connected with Abu Lawrence School.

External links

Historical books online

  • Abu Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 5, page 3.
  • "Topographical and Descriptive Account of Mount Aboo, the Station, Barracks and Hospital" by J Ogilvy, M.D. Assistant-Surgeon, 33rd Regiment, page 195 Army Medical Department: Statistical Sanitary and Medical Reports for the year 1859 (published 1861) Google Books
  • The Western Rajputana States: 
a medico-topographical and general account of Marwar, Sirohi, Jaisalmir 
by Lieut.-Colonel Archibald Adams. 1899 Archive.org
  • The Journey to Mount Abu page 95 Through Rajputana to Delhi : An Ilustrated Guide to the Districts Reached by the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway by Carlton Stubbs 1907 Archive.org

References

  1. Page 122 Rajputana District Gazetteers: Volume I-A Ajmer Merwara by C C Watson, ICS 1904 Archive.org