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'''==Spelling variants==Modern name: Baharampur<br>Variants: Berhampore''' is situated on the Hooghly River, around 120 miles upstream of [[Calcutta]]. It was a British cantonment./Berhampur/Brahmapur/Burhanpore
==History==After In one of the first acts of the [[Battle of PlasseyIndian Mutiny]] in June 1757, Berhampore was chosen as the site "[[19th Regiment of the chief military station for Bengal; and a huge square of brick barracks was erected Native Infantry]] mutinied here in 1767"1857.<ref> ====Military history====[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Berhampur,_Murshidabad,_India Berhampur, [[Murshidabad]Mutiny at Berhampore], India] Lovetoknow 1911 encyclopedia (Accessed 05/01/2010)</ref> The town continued as a cantonment until 1870.1857
One ==Cemeteries==Babulbona cemetery or Berhampore cemetery. Eleven English graves (named) are still intact.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130602153647/http://sumitsoren1983.blogspot.com/p/english-and-dutch-cemeteries-of the first acts .html English and Dutch Cemeteries of the [[Indian Mutiny]Murshidabad], the [[19th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry]] mutinied here in 1857now an archived webpage.</ref>
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'''Berhampore''' is situated on the Hooghly River, around 120 miles upstream of [[Calcutta]]. It was one of the early HEIC factories and a British cantonment. It was the headquarters of the [[Murshidabad District]] in the Rajshahi division of Bengal during the British period.
==Alternative spellingsHistory==BerhampurAfter the [[Battle of Plassey]] in June 1757, BrahmapurBerhampore was chosen as the site of the chief military station for Bengal and a huge square of brick barracks was erected in 1767. The town continued as a cantonment until 1870.
==External links==
*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019pzz000003094u00000000.html 'View of the Cantonments at Berhampore'] Aquatint, drawn and engraved by James Moffat, published Calcutta 1806. First established in around 1767. British Library Online Gallery.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20181125195125/https://livelystories.com/history/the-barracks-of-berhampore/ "The barracks of Berhampore"], livelystories.com, now archived.
*[http://murshidabad.net/history/places-topic-places-zone-one.htm Places to visit - Berhampore]. Scroll down to the Berhampore Cantonment and Berhampore Cemetery. murshidabad.net
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residency_Cemetery,_Babulbona Residency Cemetery, Babulbona] Wikipedia.
*[http://www.asikolkata.in/murshidabad.aspx#Residency Residency Cemetery also known as Station Burial Ground] Babulbona, Baharampur. Archaeological Survey of India asikolkata.in. "...this huge European Cemetery is one of the historical relics of Baharampur".
===Historical books online===
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?volume=8&objectid=DS405.1.I34_V08_007.gif Berhampore] ''Imperial Gazetteer''<br>
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=zCsoAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA245 "Mofussil Stations: No VIII Berhampore"] [No VII according to the Contents page] page 245, ''The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany'', Vol 11, New Series, May-Aug 1833. Google Books.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=oKAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA290 The cantonment at Berhampore], page 290 ''Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862'' Google Books
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/352/mode/2up Berhampore] page 353 ''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/details/murshidabadbylss00omaluoft/page/174 "Berhampore"] page 174 ''Bengal District Gazetteers: Murshidabad'' by L.S.S. O'Malley 1914. Archive.org
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