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*[[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==
In 1775 the [[East India Company]] established the [[Ordnance Department|'Board of Ordnance']] at [[Fort William]], in Calcutta. In 1787 a gunpowder factory was established at Ishapore which started production in 1791. In 1801 a 'Gun Carriage Agency' was set up at Cossipore that started production in 1802. In 1906 the administration of Indian Ordnance factories came under the 'Inspector General of Ordnance Factories'. This changed again in 1936 to the 'Director of Ordnance Factories <ref name =IA15>“Industrial Railways and Locomotives of India and South Asia” compiled by Simon Darvill. Published by ‘The Industrial Railway Society’ 2013. ISBN 978 1 901556 82-7. Available at http://irsshop.co.uk/India. Reference: Entry IA15 page ....</ref>.
The following Ordnance Factories have been identified as having railways ''(see separate pages for more information)'':-
*[[Cossipore, Gun and Shell Factory Railway|Cossipore, Gun and Shell Factory]]
*[[Calcutta, Dum Dum Gun Carriage Factory Railway|Calcutta, Dum Dum Gun Carriage Factory]]
*[[Cawnpore, Field Gun Factory Railway|Cawnpore, Field Gun Factory]]
*[[Jubbulpore Gun Carriage Factory Monorail|Jubblepore, Gun Carriage Factory]]
Also the following Arsenals and Ordinance Depots:-
*[[Quetta Arsenal Light Railway|Quetta Arsenal]]
*[[Chheoki, Central Ordnance Depot Railway|Chheoki, Central Ordinance Depot]]
==Small Arms==
Small Arms were procured in Britain by the East India Company which included "Company's Pattern" pieces<ref>[http://www.foresightbooks.com/seic/reviews.htm Reviews of ''Smallarms Of The East India Company 1600-1856'' by D.F. Harding, published 1999 in four volumes]. Also [http://www.foresightbooks.com/index.php ''An Introduction to East India Company Smallarms c1775-1851''] by D F Harding, published in 2013. All five books are available at the British Library.</ref> such as the Indian Pattern Musket.<ref>[http://barry-lewis.com/musket/ India Pattern Musket] barry-lewis.com</ref>
==Occupations==
===Civil Chief Master Armourer===
They appear to be persons who went around inspecting weapons in places which held them, such as police stations and prisons. ==Stud farms=====Pusa===Pusa is located in Bihar, previously part of the Bengal Presidency, and is now an Agricultural Research Institute.<ref>Peter et al. [http://www.victorianwarsiari.res.comin/viewtopicindex.php?foption=com_content&view=27article&tid=8582456&pItemid=39708 Role of a Civil Chief Master Armourer 1247 IARI Regional Station, Pusa (IndiaBihar)] Victorian Wars Forum 12 September 2013 et aliari. Retrieved 10 November 2014 res.in</ref><br>Article: "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.
==Articles about the stud farm at Pusa=Other studs===*"The Origin In 1835 there was a stud at Buxar, now Bihar, then part of "the Pusa Experiment" Bengal Presidency.<ref>[https: The East //archive.org/stream/fiveyearsinindiavol1/Five_Years_in_India_Vol_1#page/n69/mode/2up Page 41] ''Five Years in India Company and Horse-Breeding : Comprising a Narrative of Travels in the Presidency of Bengal, 1793-1808" by Garry John Adler. 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''Bengal Past & Present'', 98 (1979), 10-32. Publisher: Calcutta Historical Societyby Henry Edward Fane 1842 Archive. org</ref>*The Madras Presidency stud farm at Ganjam is described in the article "A government stud farm [1798-1811] in the days of the company bahadurCompany Bahadur" by R A Addington ''Cavalry Journal'' Issue No 18, 1928, published London. This article is available online, see below.
==External links==
*[http://www.indiapicks.com/stamps/Forces/759_AOC.htm Army Ordinance Corps] indiapicks.com
*[httphttps://www.jstor.org/stable/26061807 "Equipping Leviathan: Ordnance Factories of British India, 1859–1913"] by Kaushik Roy ''War in History'' Vol. 10, No. 4 (November 2003), pp. 398-423 (26 pages) jstor.org. Register with jstor.org, and read online for free (limits apply), or you may be able to log-in through your Library.:[https://web.archive.org/web/20220616074758/https://insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/IJHS/Vol44_3_4_KRoy.pdf "Technology Transfer And The Evolution Of Ordnance Establishment In British-India: 1639-1856"] by Kaushik Roy ''Indian Journal of History of Science'', 44.3 (2009) pp. 411-433, Indian National Science Academy Journals archived webpage.
===Historical books online===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=n1ABAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA164 ''Strength, Organisation and Composition of the Army of Great Britain''], Martin Petrie (1864) gives details of the Ordnance Department factories, pp164-167.
*[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.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b637408?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''The East India Company’s Arsenals and Manufactories''] by Brigadier-General H. A. Young, Director of Ordnance Factories in India 1917-1920, published 1937. HathiTrust Digital Library. Possibly not available in USA. [https://archive.org/details/eicarsenalsmanufactories/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org version]
*[https://archive.org/details/cavalry-journal-1928-vol18/page/457/mode/2up "A government stud farm 1798-1811 in the days of the Company Bahadur"] by R A Addington ''Cavalry Journal'' pages 457-468, Issue No 18, 1928, published London. Archive.org. The Madras Presidency stud farm at Ganjam.
*[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv14-1927/page/129/mode/2up "An Indian Arsenal"] by Lieut.-Colonel C M Routh, Indian Army Ordnance Corps page 130 ''The Army Quarterly Volume 14, 1927 April- July'' Archive.org.
====British Army====
*[https://archive.org/details/armyordnancevol1 ''A History of the Army Ordnance Services Volume One Ancient History''] by Major General A. Forbes 1929. Archive.org
:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015010834490?urlappend=%3Bseq=7%3Bownerid=13510798886004315-11 ''A History of the Army Ordnance Services. Volume Two Modern History: The Crimean War to the Great War''] by Major General A. Forbes 1929. HathiTrust Digital Library. Also available [https://archive.org/details/armyordnancevol2/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org]
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.274726 ''A History of the Army Ordnance Services, [Volume Three<nowiki>]</nowiki> The Great War''] by Major General Arthur Forbes 2nd edition 1932, first published 1929. Archive.org. mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes chapters on the Western Front (Part I) and chapters on Other Arenas (Part II): The Home Base; the Base in the Levant and Mediterranean [Egypt]; Gallipoli; Salonika; Palestine; Mesopotamia; East Africa; Italy; Russia and Siberia.
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