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'''Benares''' was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V06_160.gif Benares District] in the Benares Division of United Provinces during the British period. It had a cantonment with a British and Native garrison.
===Historical books online===
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=oKAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA298 The cantonment at Benares], page 298 ''Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862'' Google Books
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/362/mode/2up Benares] page 362 ''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://archive.org/stream/ahandbookbenare00parkgoog#page/n5/mode/2up ''A Hand-book of Benares''] by Rev Arthur Parker , London Missionary Society, 2nd and revised edition 1901 Archive.org
**[http://archive.org/stream/ahandbookbenare00parkgoog#page/n72/mode/1up/search "Missionary Societies"], page 62
