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Meerut was an important military garrison in colonial India and is situated north-east of [[DelhiCategory:Cities, towns and villages in Bengal Presidency]].
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|image=The Church Meerut.jpg
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|altitude= 225 m (737 ft)
|presentname= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meerut Meerut]
|stateprovince= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh Uttar Pradesh]
|country= India
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'''Meerut''' was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V17_259.gif Meerut District] in the Meerut Division of United Provinces during the British period. It was the location of an important military garrison.
==Spelling variants==
Meerut, Meerutt, Miruth, Merat, Mirat.
== Military history ==
[[Mutiny at Meerut]] May 1857
== Churches==
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/23268776@N03/4375250699/ Photograph of St John's Garrison Church - Meerut - 1822] taken in 2009 flickr.com (also see image in info box)
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/23268776@N03/4375248339/in/set-72157624860712046/ Photograph of St Joseph's Church - Meerut – 1826] taken in 2009 flickr.com
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/23268776@N03/4375995426/in/set-72157624860712046/ Photograph of St Paul's Methodist Church - Meerut – 1924] taken in 2009 flickr.com
==Cemeteries==
* FIBIS RESOURCES
**[http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=878&s_id=150 Meerut Cantonment Cemetery] Inscriptions and images from FIBIS database
**[http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=202&s_id=150 St John's Cemetery] Few inscriptions and images held on FIBIS database
*[[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA (British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia)]] cemetery publications are
**''Meerut: The First Sixty Years (1815-1875)'' by Alan Harfield, 1992 MIs and burial registers. Also a complete listing of the British and Indian regiments there along with a history of the garrison.
**''Meerut Part II (1876-1939)'' by Alan Harfield, 1999 MIs and Burial Registers of Cantonment Cemetery; also Race Course Cemetery and Military Memorials.
:See [http://indian-cemeteries.org/bacsa/html/bacsa_books.html BACSA Books].
:[[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA]] have put the indexes to these cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.
==External links==
[[Image:Meerut - Kambob Gate.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Kambob Gate - Meerut]]
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V17_269.gif "Meerut City"] Imperial Gazetteer<br>
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160412002323/http://www.imagesofasia.com/html/india/army-barracks.html General View Royal Field Artillery (R.F.A.) Barracks, Meerut 1910] Postcard from Images of Asia, now archived.
*Meerut is part of the [http://www.cnidioceseofagra.org/Default.aspx Agra Diocese of the Church of North India]. However, St John’s Garrison Church Meerut is not listed as one of the churches, even though there are references elsewhere that this church became part of the Church of North India.
*[http://www.thecatholicdioceseofmeerut.com/default.aspx The Catholic Diocese of Meerut]
*[http://www.indiandefencereview.com/spotlights/the-great-upsurge-of-1857-historical-sites-in-meerut-cantonment/ "The Great Upsurge of 1857: Historical sites in Meerut Cantonment"] by Dr Amit Pathak, Issue Vol 25.3 Jul-Sep 2010 ''Indian Defence Review''.
*[https://thewire.in/health/on-the-160th-anniversary-of-the-1857-uprising-meet-the-meerut-historian-keeping-the-story-alive "On the 160th Anniversary of the 1857 Uprising, Meet the Meerut Historian Keeping the Story Alive"] by Sunaina Kumar 10 May 2017 thewire.in
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20201109042229/https://www.thehindu.com/society/history-and-culture/the-200-year-old-meerut-cemetery-where-nine-british-soldiers-lie/article23989579.ece "The 200-year-old Meerut cemetery where nine British soldiers lie"] by Ishita Mishra May 26, 2018 ''The Hindu'', archived webpage.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200126105919/http://gravematters.in/?p=2432 ‘Memorial plaques in St. John’s Church, Meerut, India, Part-I’] by K.J.S. Chatrath December 30, 2016. gravematters.in, now archived.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toQ-D_bai_A St. John's Church, Meerut... The Legacy] You Tube video.
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/stream/firstimpressions01baco#page/358/mode/2up "Merat"], page 358 ''Volume I, First impressions and studies from nature in Hindostan; embracing an outline of the voyage to Calcutta, and five years residence in Bengal and the Doab, from MDCCCXXXI to MDCCCXXXVI'' by Thomas Bacon, Lieut. Of the Bengal Horse Artillery 1837 Archive.org
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034950 ''On the topography of Meerutt, and the principal diseases which prevailed in the 1st Brigade of Horse Artillery at that place''] by John Murray, M.D., Assistant Surgeon, 1st Brigade Horse Artillery 1839 published Calcutta. British Library Digital Collection.
:[https://archive.org/details/b22274789/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org version]
:*[https://archive.org/details/b22274789/page/n1/mode/1up Plan of the Artillery Hospital and Artillery Barracks] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/jramc-1913-vol21/page/599/mode/2up "On the Topography of Meerutt" by Dr Murray, dealing with the period 1833-1837, with an Introduction] by A E Tate page 600, continuing [https://archive.org/details/jramc-1913-vol21/page/713/mode/2up page 713] ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Volume 21 1913'' Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/374/mode/2up Meerut] page 375 ''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/openingmeerutan00compgoog/page/n2 ''Opening of the Meerut and Umballa Section of the Delhi Railway, on the 14th of November, 1868''] 1869 Archive.org
*[http://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht/?PPN=PPN668138920&PHYSID=PHYS_0427 Meerut cantonments] page 409 (digital page 427) ''Statistical, descriptive and historical account of the northwestern provinces of India ; Volume 3 [including] Gazetteer of the Meerut District'' 1876 Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=G9jaXsOc-tEC&pg=PA409 Google Books edition, page 409]
*[http://archive.org/stream/districtgazette00indgoog#page/n4/mode/2up ''Meerut: A Gazetteer, Being Volume IV of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh''] Compiled and edited by H. R. Nevill, I.C.S 1904 Archive.org
**[http://archive.org/stream/districtgazette00indgoog#page/n286/mode/2up "Meerut City"], page 271
**[http://archive.org/stream/districtgazette00indgoog#page/n290/mode/2up The cantonment], page 275
*[https://archive.org/details/mutinyoutbreakat0000palm/page/n5 ''The Mutiny Outbreak at Meerut in 1857''] by J A B Palmer 1966 including
:[https://archive.org/details/mutinyoutbreakat0000palm/page/176 "Plan of Meerut Cantonment in 1857"], page 177. Archive.org Lending Library
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