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*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/450/mode/2up Belgaum] page 450 ''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 | *[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/450/mode/2up Belgaum] page 450 ''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=pYAIAAAAQAAJ&dq=belgaum&pg=PP5 ''Sanitary report on the town of Belgaum dated 31 December 1868''] Google Books | *[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=pYAIAAAAQAAJ&dq=belgaum&pg=PP5 ''Sanitary report on the town of Belgaum dated 31 December 1868''] Google Books | ||
| − | *''My Year in an Indian Fort'' by Mrs Guthrie published 1877 [https://archive.org/details/myyearinindianfo01guthuoft | + | *''My Year in an Indian Fort'' by Mrs Guthrie published 1877 [https://archive.org/details/myyearinindianfo01guthuoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/myyearinindianfo02guthuoft Volume II] Archive.org |
:''Life in Western India'' by Mrs Guthrie published 1881 [https://archive.org/details/lifeinwesternin00guthgoog Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/lifeinwesternin01guthgoog Volume II] Archive,org | :''Life in Western India'' by Mrs Guthrie published 1881 [https://archive.org/details/lifeinwesternin00guthgoog Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/lifeinwesternin01guthgoog Volume II] Archive,org | ||
:*[https://archive.org/stream/lifeinwesternin00guthgoog#page/n202/mode/2up Page 184], Volume I relates to Belgaum | :*[https://archive.org/stream/lifeinwesternin00guthgoog#page/n202/mode/2up Page 184], Volume I relates to Belgaum | ||
| − | : The author is stated to be Katharine Blanche Guthrie.If so, she may have been Katherine Blanche, daughter of Thomas Starkie, Esq., Queen's Counsel. who married the Rev. Lowry Guthrie 23 February 1846. She travelled from England, with a female companion M, possibly her daughter and was met by M's husband, G and proceeded to Belgaum. G | + | : The author is stated to be Katharine Blanche Guthrie.If so, she may have been Katherine Blanche, daughter of Thomas Starkie, Esq., Queen's Counsel. who married the Rev. Lowry Guthrie 23 February 1846. She travelled from England, with a female companion M, possibly/probably her daughter and was met by M's husband, G and proceeded to Belgaum. G was Provost-Marshal (page 81, MYiaIF, Volume I). It is stated his garden was the "finest in Belgaum". |
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Revision as of 13:20, 20 January 2018
| Belgaum | |
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| Presidency: Bombay | |
| Coordinates: | 15°51'00.0"N 74°30'00.0"E |
| Altitude: | 762 m (2,500 ft) |
| Present Day Details | |
| Place Name: | Belgaum |
| State/Province: | Karnataka |
| Country: | India |
| Transport links | |
| Southern Mahratta Railway | |
| FibiWiki Maps | |
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| See our interactive map of this location showing places of interest during the British period | |
| Belgaum |
Belgaum came under the control of the British in 1818 at the end of the 3rd Maratha War when the Maratha empire was broken up. It was the headquarters of Belgaum District in the Southern division of Bombay Presidency during the British period.
A cantonment was located there.
Contents
Spelling variants
Modern name: Belgaum
Variants: Belgaon, Belgam
Military history
Siege of Belgaum 1818
Churches
St Mary's Church, Belgaum Bombay Diocesan Trust
Internment Camp
There was an internment camp in Belgaum for German and Austrian civilians during the First World War. For more details see POW Camps in India
External links
- Photograph: Interior of Barrack Room, Belgaum 1860 and another view of the Interior of Barrack Room, Belgaum from this page of Prof Fran Pritchett’s Indian Routes website. Elsewhere these photographs are dated to between 1867 and 1870.[1]
- Postcard: The Cantonment Garden, Belgaum The Army Children Archive (TACA).
- The Diary of Frederick Pendall, a member of the Norfolk regiment who was in Belgaum from March 1917 to March 1918
Historical books online
- Belgaum Town Imperial Gazetteer
- Belgaum Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency Vol XXI 1884
- Belgaum c 1827 page 412 The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle 1828 Google Books
- "London Missionary Society: Summary View of the Mission at Belgaum" page 360 Missionary Register for 1832, Church Missionary Society Google Books
- Belgaum September 1840 page 33 The Diary of Sergeant William Hall, …, late of Her Majesty’s Forty-First Regiment, containing The Incidents connected with two years campaign in Scinde and Affghanistan during the late War. c 1848 Google Books
- Belgaum page 450 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
- Sanitary report on the town of Belgaum dated 31 December 1868 Google Books
- My Year in an Indian Fort by Mrs Guthrie published 1877 Volume I, Volume II Archive.org
- Life in Western India by Mrs Guthrie published 1881 Volume I, Volume II Archive,org
- Page 184, Volume I relates to Belgaum
- The author is stated to be Katharine Blanche Guthrie.If so, she may have been Katherine Blanche, daughter of Thomas Starkie, Esq., Queen's Counsel. who married the Rev. Lowry Guthrie 23 February 1846. She travelled from England, with a female companion M, possibly/probably her daughter and was met by M's husband, G and proceeded to Belgaum. G was Provost-Marshal (page 81, MYiaIF, Volume I). It is stated his garden was the "finest in Belgaum".
References
- ↑ Frogsmile Barrack Room Belgaum Victorian Wars Forum 20 November 2014. Retrieved 23 November 2014
