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[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V05_173.gif "Army: Ajmer- Merwara Province"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 5'', page 165.</ref>
C 1859, there was a detachment of the Mhairwarrah {(Mharwarrah, Mharwarra) Battalion , a Local Infantry or Irregular Corps, stationed at Ajmere.<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=DPY2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA249 Page 249] ''Quarterly Army List of Her Majesty's British Forces on the Bengal Establishment'' 1859 Google Books</ref> There were also troops of the Battalion at Bewar (Bewur) which is possibly in the vicinity.
===Volunteers===
[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/the-last-gasp-for-indias-age-of-steam-drivers-mourn-locomotives-that-united-a-nation-1468307.html “The last gasp for India's age of steam: Drivers mourn locomotives that united a nation”] 23 October 2011 independent.co.uk</ref>
There was a large railway colony, with a hospital at Ajmer. It was one of those railway colonies along the [[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]] whose Railway Institute dances were so well regarded that people would travel for up to six hours by train to attend.<ref>[httphttps://www.thestatesman.com/mobi/news/supplements/the-anglo-indian-legacy-saga/-106491.html "The Anglo-Indian legacy saga"] by R V Smith Nov 26 2015 ''The Statesman'' </ref>
==External links==
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V05_145.gif "Ajmer-Merwara Province"]. ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 5'', page 137.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=kFQOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Some Account of the General and Medical Topography of Ajmeer''] by Assistant Surgeon Robert Hamilton Irvine 1841 Google Books
*[httphttps://dliarchive.sercorg/details/in.iiscgov.ernetignca.in14910/page/handlen1/2015mode/537145 2up ''Ajmer Historical And Descriptive''] by Har Bilas Sarda. 1904 1911. Missing title page. [https://archive.org/details/in. Pdf downloadernet.dli.2015.213052/mode/2up 2nd file, with title page]. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.122657/page/n1/mode/2up 1941 reprint edition, rewritten and enlarged], Archive.org mirror from Digital Library of India.
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