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*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/show-lot-print.php?lot_id=119819 Postcard: Infantry Barrack, Jubbulpore, C.P.]
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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"Railway Colonies in India"] by John Alton Price, now an archived page.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 variants ==
Modern name: Jabalpur<br>
Variants: Jubbulpore, Jubbalpore, Jubbelpore, Jubblepore, Jabbalpore, Jabbelpore, Jabbulpore, Juppulpore, Juppalpore<br>
==FIBIS Resourcesresources==*[httphttps://www.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://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.
*[httphttps://www.cwgc.org/find-wara-dead.aspx?cpage=1&sort=name&order=asc Burials at cemetery/cemetery/5001721/jubbulpore-cantonment-cemetery/ Jubbulpore Cantonment 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 ''The Times of India''. Mathura Pershad and Co. Jubbelpore provided many of the gravestones in Jubbelpore in the days of the British Raj.
*[http://www.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.uk
*[http://canttboardjabalpur.org.in/english/history.php Jabalpur Cantonment Board History]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110508175202/http://www.rakeshsinghazbilliards.orgcom/pagessnooker/JPCityhistory.aspx Jabalpur; Where html "The History And Development Of Snooker was conceived"] It is generally accepted quoting an article from ''The Billiard Player'' of April 1939 by Compton Mckenzie (should be Mackenzie) that a 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"] (no relation to the World War II Prime Ministersnookerheritage.co.uk) conceived the game in the British Army Officer's Mess in which casts doubts on Jubbulpore, India, in 1875indicating that [[Ootacamund]] is more likely.
===Historical books online===
*[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"].
