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*[http://revenueharyana.gov.in/html/mainchild/gazatteers.htm Gazetteers Of Haryana], previously part of Bengal. Haryana Government website.  Includes  Ambala District 1883-84, 1892, 1923-24, the latter available as a searchable pdf.
 
*[http://revenueharyana.gov.in/html/mainchild/gazatteers.htm Gazetteers Of Haryana], previously part of Bengal. Haryana Government website.  Includes  Ambala District 1883-84, 1892, 1923-24, the latter available as a searchable pdf.
 
*[http://mangalorean.com/browsearticles.php?arttype=Travelogue&articleid=433St Paul’s Church Ambala] by Ramesh Lalwani  4 December 2005 mangalorean.com
 
*[http://mangalorean.com/browsearticles.php?arttype=Travelogue&articleid=433St Paul’s Church Ambala] by Ramesh Lalwani  4 December 2005 mangalorean.com
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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ESBcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA213 "Topographical and Sanitary Report on Umballa and its vicinity, Upper India"] by Dr Kendal, Surgeon, H. M.’s 7th Hussars, page 213 ''Army Medical Department: Statistical Sanitary and Medical Reports for the year 1859'' (published 1861)  Google Books
  
 
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Ambala
Station hospital Ambala.jpg
Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 30.38°N 76.78°E
Altitude: 264 m (866 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Ambala
State/Province: Haryana
Country: India
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Ambala was the headquarters of Ambala District in the Delhi Division of Punjab Province during the British period.The Ambala Cantonment was established in 1843 after the British abandoned its cantonment at Karnal, following the malaria epidemic of 1841-42.

Spelling Variants

Modern spelling: Ambala
Variants: Umballa

Churches

The cantonment church is called St Paul's and it has a large graveyard and war memorial. St Paul’s Church, ‘an edifice which has been much admired’ was designed by Captain George Atkinson of the Bengal Engineers, according to this Archives,org link. He was the author of Curry & rice' on forty plates : or, The ingredients of social life at 'our station' in India, published 1860, refer Society reading list, which may have been based on life in the cantonment at Umballa.

St Paul's Church was bombed in 1965 and is now in ruins.

External Links

Historical books online