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In the days of the [[East India Company|EIC]], it was part of the Town Major's List ([[Bengal]] & [[Bombay]]) and Effective Supernumeraries ([[Madras]]). Initially part of the [[Unattached List]] (B) in the [[Indian Army]], it became the Indian Army Ordnance Department in 1884 and was headed by the [[Commissariat General]] - Ordnance and then became the Indian Army Ordnance Corps in 1922.
==FIBIS resources==
*"John Braddock- Powder Master" by Sylvia Murphy ''FIBIS Journal Number 28 (Autumn 2012)'' pages 25-31. John Braddock arrived in Madras in 1813. See [[FIBIS Journals]] for details of how to access this article.
==Also see==
*[[Conductors]]
*[[Unattached List]]
*[[Cossipore]], the location of a gun factory
*[[Dum Dum]], the location of an ammunition factory
*[[Ishapore]], the location of a gunpowder factory, and later a rifle factory
==History of the Ordnance Department==
*[[Chheoki, Central Ordnance Depot Railway|Chheoki, Central Ordinance Depot]]
==FIBIS resourcesSmall Arms==*Small Arms were procured in Britain by the East India Company which included "John Braddock- Powder MasterCompany's Pattern" by Sylvia Murphy pieces<ref>[http://www.foresightbooks.com/seic/reviews.htm Reviews of ''FIBIS Journal Number 28 (Autumn 2012)Smallarms Of The East India Company 1600-1856'' pages 25-31. John Braddock arrived in Madras in 1813by D. See [[FIBIS Journals]] for details of how to access this articleF. ==Also see==*[[Conductors]]*[[Unattached List]]*[[Cossipore]]Harding, the location of a gun factory*[[Dum Dum]published 1999 in four volumes], </ref> such as the location of an ammunition factory*Indian Pattern Musket.<ref>[[Ishaporehttp://barry-lewis.com/musket/ India Pattern Musket]], the location of a gunpowder factory, and later a rifle factorybarry-lewis.com</ref>
==Occupations==
<br>Articles
*"The Origin of "the Pusa Experiment" : The East India Company and Horse-Breeding in Bengal, 1793-1808" by Garry John Adler. ''Bengal Past & Present'', 98 (1979), 10-32. Publisher: Calcutta Historical Society.
*"A government stud farm [1798-1811] in the days of the company bahadur" by R A Addington ''Cavalry Journal'' Issue No 18, 1928, published London. ([http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/issue.xhtml?recordId=1094760&recordType=Journal Title Index for the issue])
===Other studs===
In 1835 there was a stud at Buxar, now Bihar, then part of the Bengal Presidency.<ref> [https://archive.org/stream/fiveyearsinindiavol1/Five_Years_in_India_Vol_1#page/n69/mode/2up Page 41] ''Five Years in India: Comprising a Narrative of Travels in the Presidency of Bengal, a Visit to the Court of Runjeet Sing, Residence in the Himalayah Mountains, an Account of the Late Expedition to Cabul and Affghanistan, Voyage Down the Indus, and Journey Overland to England, Volume I'' by Henry Edward Fane 1842 Archive.org</ref>
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V04_391.gif The Ordnance Department] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 4'', page 362. Mentions the various factories.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=LdISAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA187 Page 187] ''Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 24, Part 2 East India (Education) II- Madras 1859, session 2''. This report refers to the attempt made by Lieutenant Braddock in 1830 to improve Carnatic Ordnance Artificers by theoretical instruction.
*''The East India Company’s Arsenals and Manufactories'' by Brigadier-General H. A. Young, Director of Ordnance Factories in India 1917-1920, first published 1937, is available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/east-india-companys-arsenals-and-manufactories/ ''East India Company’s Arsenals and Manufactories''] Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8EamDdOvsRwziBAxU online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3] (located in World War II/Military Books/India. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=URK-BAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA194&pg=PP5 Preview Google Books].
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