Dinapore

Dinapore
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates:	25.633333°N, 85.05°E
Altitude:
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Danapur
State/Province:	Bihar
Country:	India
Transport links
East Indian Railway

Dinapore was a British garrison town in the 19th century. It is now called Danapur and is in Bihar state. It is about 10km north-west of Patna, and 500km north-west of Calcutta. It is the second oldest Cantonment in India

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Danapur
Variants: Dinapore/Dinapur

Barracks

Arrah Barracks was constructed in 1859-60 and Victoria Barracks was constructed during 1896-99.

Churches

• St Luke (Anglican)

Fibis Resources

• Cemeteries
  • Fibis Database of graves in Dinapore Cemetery
  • FIBIS Database of graves in Dinapore 3 Cemetery

Transport

The East Indian Railway had a locomotive workshop at Dinapore.

External links

• "Of cemetery & its sorry saga - Slice of British history lies buried and lost in absence of records" by Piyush Kumar Tripathi 22 November 2014 The Telegraph. St Stephen’s Catholic Cemetery in Danapur Cantonment.
• Danapurins Includes images of St Luke's Church and the Arrah and Victoria Barracks.

Historical books online

• Dinapore Town Imperial Gazetteer
• The cantonment at Dinapore, page 293 Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862 Google Books
• Dinapore page 358 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