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The city was an important junction on the main line of the [[East Indian Railway]] from [[Calcutta]] to [[Delhi]]; from here, a branch ran south-west to [[Jubbulpore]] to connect to the [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]]'s main line from [[Bombay]]. The [[Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway]] had a terminus at == Spelling variants ==Modern spelling: Allahabad.<br>Variants: Ilahabad
== History ==
'''[[Image:All Saints Cathedral Allahabad Exterior.jpg|thumb|All Saints Cathedral| 300px]];Anglican'''*All Saints Cathedral, Cannington . Some photos of exterior at [http://beautifulindianchurches.blogspot.in/2012/07/all-saints-cathedral-church-of-north.html All Saints Cathedral] (Beautiful Indian Churches blogspot). :[http://archiseek.com/2010/1877-allahabad-cathedral-uttar-pradesh-india/ 1887–All Saints Cathedral, Allahabad] archiseek.com
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{{Places of Interest|title=Allahabad|name=Allahabad|link=xxxxx}}
'''Allahabad''' became was the capital headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V05_235.gif Allahabad District] in the newly formed [[Allahabad Division of United Provinces]] after during the British period. See [[Indian MutinyUnited Provinces Districts]] of 1857-58. The High Court of Judicature for the North-Western Provinces was located in Allahabad.
== History =='''Allahabad''' became the capital of the newly formed [[United Provinces]] after the [[Image:AllahabadIndian Mutiny]] of 1857-58.jpg|thumb|Map The High Court of AllahabadJudicature for the [[North-Western Provinces]]was located in Allahabad.
The High Court of Judicature for the North-Western Provinces was transferred to Allahabad from [[Agra]] in 1869. In 1887, the University of Allahabad was founded and All Saints Cathedral was consecrated.
====Military history====*[[Battle of Mutiny at Allahabad June 1857]]<br>*[[Battle Relief of Allahabad July 1857]]<br>
==Churches and missions==
*Holy Trinity, Church Road
*St David's, Cantonment
*St Joseph's, Thornhill Road
*St Andrew's, Church of Scotland, Elgin Road
*Baptist Church, Elgin Road
*Church Mission Society, St Paul's Church
*Divinity College
*The Baptist, American Methodist Episcopal and Zenana
== Education==
* ''''Colvin Free School'''' established c 1893 as a school for orphan boys and accommodated more than 30 boys at that time. <ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4WoQAAAAIAAJ&q=%22colvin%20free%20school%22%20allahabad&dq] Official Year Book Church of England 1893 Google Books</ref>. It was amalgamated in 1936 with Boys High School. <ref> [https://boyshighschool.com/history/]Boys High School and College </ref>. At the time of the 1922 [[East Indian Railway]] strike the boys from the Free School assisted with handling parcels, trimming lamps for station and signalling use, and assisting passengers. <ref> Findmypast.com - Civil and Military Gazette 21 Feb 1922 </ref>
==FIBIS Resources==
*[http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=219 Trancriptions and images from Memorials and Gravestones in Allahabad - including Holy Trinity Church, Muir Road (Civil Lines) Cemetery and Kydganj no 1 cemetery] FIBIS database. One set of transcriptions is from the British Library records IOR/R/4/539 List of inscriptions in Uttar Pradesh. Also includes Rajapur Cemetery, one of the graveyards for which FIBIS commissioned Mr Rajat Sharma to take photographs and details of all legible headstones, see FIBIS [https://www.fibis.org/about-2/cemeteries/cemeteries-project/ Cemeteries Project].
==Railways==
[[Image:Allahabad the railway station.jpg|thumb|The railway station at Allahabad]]
Allahabad was an important junction on the main line of the [[East Indian Railway]]. Here, the line from [[Calcutta]] bifurcated with one line running north to [[Delhi]] and the other south-west to [[Jubbulpore]] where there was an end-to-end connection with the [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]]'s main line from [[Bombay]]. In 1925, when both the EIR and GIPR became state railways, the section from Jubbulpore to Allahabad was transferred to the GIPR. The [[Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway]] had a terminus at Allahabad.
[[Image:Allahabad.jpg|thumb|Map of Allahabad]]
== External links ==
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V06_430.gif Allahabad Town] Imperial Gazetteer of India<br>*[https://web.archive.org/web/20171119055941/http://www.1911encyclopediastudygroup.org.uk/Articles/Content/THE%20WORLD.html The World's First Official Post By Aeroplane Allahabad ", India, Saturday 18th February 1911] by Ken Harman www.studygroup.org, now archived.*[http://beautifulindianchurches.blogspot.com/2012/07/allahabad-bible-seminary-chapel-stanley.html Allahabad"Bible Seminary] 17 July 2012 ''Love to Know 1911Beautiful Indian Churches''*[http://archiseek.com/2012/1886-muit-college-allahabad-uttar-pradesh-india/ 1886–Muir College, Allahabad] archiseek.com*[https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/639639/cantonment-cemetery Cantonment Cemetery Allahabad] :[https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2496912/muir-road-civil-cemetery Muir Road Civil Cemetery Allahabad] with Photograph of the entrance. This cemetery is known to locals as "Rajapur Cemetery" or "Rajapur Kabristaan" (in Hindi).:Both findagrave.com. There also appear to be some smaller cemeteries in Allahabad, with details of only a few graves listed on [https://www.findagrave.com findagrave.com], which may be located using the Search.*[http://www.rorkesdriftvc.com/stories/m_everett.htm An Indian Pilgrimage
] by Martin Everett. rorkesdriftvc.com. Appears to be written 2003 or earlier, as there is an [https://web.archive.org/web/20030801025128/http://rorkesdriftvc.com/stories/m_everett.htm archived version] from this date. This article describes a Regimental Memorial, located in the old cantonment cemetery at Allahabad, on the west side of the city, dedicated to those soldiers and families of the [[24th Regiment of Foot|24th Regiment]] who died of fever at [[Ranikhet]] and Allahabad from 1889 to 1891. It also mentions another cemetery "full of dead engine drivers from Central India Railways". ===Historical books online===*[https://archive.org/details/lettersfromislan00kind_0/page/n8/mode/2up ''Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies''] by Mrs. Kindersley 1777 Archive.org. The letters from India commence with [https://archive.org/details/lettersfromislan00kind_0/page/72/mode/2up Letter 18] in Pondicherry June 1765 and conclude with letter 67 from Calcutta in 1768. Most of Letters 27-63 were written from Allahabad 1767-1768. Jemima Kindersley, (1741-1809). Wife of Lieutenant Nathaniel Kindersley (1732–1769) of the Royal Artillery and later, from 27 July 1764, Captain in the East India Company's Bengal Artillery. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jemima_Kindersley Jemima Kindersley] Wikipedia.*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=zCsoAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA97 "Mofussil Stations: No VI- Allahabad "] page 97, ''The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany'', Vol 11, New Series, May-Aug 1833 Google Books.*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/362/mode/2up Allahabad] page 363 ''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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=wHECAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA346 "The relative health of the right and left wings of the 58th Regiment"<nowiki>[</nowiki>at Allahabad<nowiki>] </nowiki>] by Surgeon EL Lundy M.D., 58th Regiment, page 346 ''WikipediaArmy Medical Department Report for the year 1869'' Google Books. It appears that the New Cantonment at Allahabad was completed about this time i.e. c 1869.*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=fxUDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA101 "India: Bengal. Report" "Asiatic Cholera"] by C. Macnamara, Medical Officer-in-Charge of the "Chandnie" Hospital, Calcutta, and Surgeon to the Ophthalmic Hospital. Contains references to the 58th Regiment and cholera at Allahabad in 1869. Page 101. ''Reports on the progress of practical and scientific medicine'', ed. by H. Dobell, Volume 2, 1871. Google Books *[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3052/mode/2up ''Allahabad: a Gazetteer being Volume XXIII of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh''] by H R Nevill 1911 Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library, Government of India.
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