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Also known as '''Jubbulpur''', the town was the meeting point in 1871 for the [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]] (616 miles from [[Bombay]]) and the [[East Indian Railway]] (220 miles from [[Allahabad]]), and the completion {{Places of the first Bombay-Calcutta trunk railway line.Interest|title=Jubbulpore|name=Jubbulpore|link=xxxxx}}
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'''Jubbulpore''' was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V14_212.gif Jubbulpore District] in the Jubbulpore Division of Central Provinces during the British period.
The town was the meeting point in 1871 for the [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]] (616 miles from [[Bombay]]) and the [[East Indian Railway]] (220 miles from [[Allahabad]]), and the completion of the first Bombay-Calcutta trunk railway line.
It had large Railway Workshops, employed a large number of people to work the railway and was an important Railway Colony.<ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20120220013610/http://www.pricewebhome.co.uk/Docs/Price/Railways/Railways.htm "Railway Colonies in India"] by John Alton Price, now an archived page.</ref>
There was a cantonment at Jubbulpore.
It is the location of the Gun Carriage Factory, the oldest Ordnance factory in Central India, commenced 1904.
== Spelling variants ==
Modern name: Jabalpur<br>
Variants: Jubbulpore, Jubbalpore, Jubbelpore, Jubblepore, Jabbalpore, Jabbelpore, Jabbulpore, Juppulpore, Juppalpore<br>
==FIBIS resources==
*[https://gallery.fibis.org/index.php?/tags/746-jubbulpore Images of Jubbulpore in FIBIS Gallery]
*[http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=349 Jabalpur Cemeteries] FIBIS database. Includes Bilhari Cantonment Cemetery with images available. (Cemeteries Project, donation basis)
== External links ==
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V14_223.gif Jubbulpore City] Imperial Gazetteer of India<br>*[http://www.1911encyclopediagokuldas.com/jabal/index.php?jabal=1 About Jubbulpore] (click through to 4 pages) gokuldas.com*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Carriage_Factory_Jabalpur Gun Carriage Factory Jabalpur] Wikipedia. *[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/j/019pho000000394u00072000.html Photograph: Jubbalpore, Central India. Hotel c 1860] British Library Online Gallery*[http://image.slidesharecdn.com/historyofgreatindianrailways-130625022715-phpapp01/95/history-of-great-indian-railways-104-638.jpg?cb=1372145755 Image: Invitation to a banquet at Jubbulpore to mark the opening of the North East Extension of the G I P Railway March 1870]. Includes the wording: "Tents will be provided but visitors should bring their own bedding…" Image 104 [http://www.slideshare.net/aishwarya1800/history-of-great-indian-railways History of great indian railways] by Aish Warya slideshare.net. Scroll down for the contents of the slideshow. Note the description for some image numbers does not match the image. *[https://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/5001721/jubbulpore-cantonment-cemetery/ JubbulporeCantonment Cemetery] Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Contains a link to the burial records.*[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Dead-buried-and-remembered-too/articleshow/9163014.cms "Dead & buried, and remembered too"] by Shishir Arya, July 9, 2011 ''Love to Know 1911The Times of India''. Mathura Pershad and Co. Jubbelpore provided many of the gravestones in Jubbelpore in the days of the British Raj.*[http://enwww.archhistory.co.uk/taca/postingspicsind.html Postcards: Hugh Rose Barracks, Jubbulpore and cantonment gardens, Jubbulpore]. Scroll down to the section titled Jubbulpore. The Army Children Archive (TACA)*[http://www.voyagetoindia.co.uk/index.php/1914/12/nairne-barracks/ Nairne Barracks, Jubbulpore] 5 December 1914. From the diary of Sgt Frank William Critchley, 1st/3rd Kent Battery, Royal Artillery. www.voyagetoindia.co.wikipediauk*[http://canttboardjabalpur.org.in/wikienglish/history.php Jabalpur Cantonment Board History]*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110508175202/http://www.azbilliards.com/snooker/history.html "JabalpurThe History And Development Of Snooker"] quoting an article from ''WikipediaThe Billiard Player'' of April 1939 by Compton Mckenzie (should be Mackenzie) that snooker was invented at Jubbulpore in the year 1875 by Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain, then a young subaltern in the Devonshire Regiment: [https://www.snookerheritage.co.uk/normans-articles/days-of-old/origins-of-snooker/ "Origins of Snooker"] (snookerheritage.co.uk) which casts doubts on Jubbulpore, indicating that [[Ootacamund]] is more likely. ===Historical books online===*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/394/mode/2up Jubbulpore] page 395 ''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://digital.nls.uk/indiapapers/browse/pageturner.cfm?id=74905153 ''Annual reports on the working of the lock hospitals in the Central Provinces''] [ID: 75107675]] Reports cover 1876-1889. National Library of Scotland .Contains reports from Jubblepore eg page 28 (file page 37) [http://digital.nls.uk/indiapapers/browse/pageturner.cfm?id=75109520&mode=transcription "Report On The Lock Hospital, Jubbulpore, 1876"]. ==References==<references/>
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