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"'''Jhansi''', a city and district was the headquarters of British India, [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V14_141.gif Jhansi District] in the Allahabad division Division of the United Provinces. The city is during the centre of the Indian Midland railway system, whence four lines diverge to [[Agra]], [[Cawnpore]], [[Allahabad]] and [[Bhopal]]British period."
[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Jhansi "Jhansi"] ''LoveToKnow 1911''.}}
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jhansi "Jhansi"] ''Wikipedia''.
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|presidency= [[Bengal]]
|image=Jhansi- The Church.jpg|coordinates= [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=25.4333,78.5833&spn=0.1,0.1&q=25.4333,78.5833 25.433300, 433300°N 78.583300583300°E]
|altitude= 285 m (935 ft)
|presentname= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jhansi Jhansi]
|transport= [[Indian Midland Railway]]
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The city was the centre of the [[Indian Midland Railway]] system, whence four lines diverged to [[Agra]], [[Cawnpore]], [[Allahabad]] and [[Bhopal]]. This line later became the [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]] (GIPR).
== History ==
*[[Mutiny at Jhansi]]
*[[Battle of Jhansi]] 1858
== External links ==
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V14_154.gif Jhansi City] Imperial Gazetteer of India<br>
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160405221439/http://www.cwgc.org/news-events/news/2012/1/jhansi-(lynchgate)-cantonment-cemetery.aspx Jhansi (Lynchgate) Cantonment Cemetery] News item dated 01 January 2012 Commonwealth War Graves Commission, now an archived webpage
:[https://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/5001720/JHANSI%20CANTONMENT%20CEMETERY Jhansi Cantonment Cemetery] cwgc.org
:[http://www.indian-cemeteries.org/cemetery_details.asp?town=Jhansi&cem=Cantonment%20Cemetery Jhansi Cantonment Cemetery] indian-cemeteries.org
*[http://davidgibbins.com/journal/2014/2/13/murder-in-jhansi-1915 Murder In Jhansi, 1915: Major Marmaduke Henry Littledale Gale, 8th (Indian) Cavalry]
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/58/a4427958.shtml 1941-1945 Eastern Travels Part 2] by Cecil John Callis, [[Royal Corps of Signals]]. WW2People’s War. The author was posted to Jhansi in October 1941.
*[http://forpakistan.org/fpdata/bhowani-junction-a-brief-but-memorable-encounter-with-hollywood Bhowani Junction – a brief but memorable encounter with Hollywood] by Hamid Hussain April 12, 2013 forpakistan.org. "The geographic location of fictional Bhowani Junction was most likely Jhansi"
===Historical books online ===
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/368/mode/2up Jhansi] page 369 ''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
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