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'''Serampore''' was a former [[Danish]] colony. It is now called Shrirampur and is 20km due north of [[Calcutta]]. It was the headquarters of the centre subdivision of the same name in Hughli District, [[CalcuttaBengal]]during the british period. Alternative spelling: Serampur, Sirampur
An excellent website which provides beautiful images of missionary sites in and around Serampore, along with maps and useful links is at [http://www.virtualserampore.org Virtual Serampore].
==Spelling variants==
Modern name: Serampore<br>
Variants: Serampur/Srirampur/Srirampore/Shreerampur/Shreerampore/Shrirampur/Shrirampore/Srerampore
==FIBIS resources==
*FIBIS database: [http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=1923&s_id=1032 1840 Serampore Census] transcribed by Sylvia Murphy. European & Indo-European names. Details of names are available without restriction. Full details such as address, occupation, religion etc. are only available to logged-in FIBIS members.
==Danish history==
The Danish name was Frederiksnagore. Alternative spelling: Frederiksnagor, Frederiksnagar. Fregeriksnagore It was established by the Danish East India Company, by then called the Asiatic Company, in 1755.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=FZQcjsSitEcC&pg=PA77 ''Der dänische Gesamtstaat: ein unterschätztes Weltreich?/The Oldenburg Monachy:An Underestimated Empire''] (in English) page 77 article by Eric Gobel 2006 Google Books</ref>
A [http://books.google.com/books?id=FZQcjsSitEcC&pg=PA57 description] of Frederiksnagore in the early 1780’s.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=FZQcjsSitEcC&pg=PA57 ''Der dänische Gesamtstaat: ein unterschätztes Weltreich?/The Oldenburg Monachy:An Underestimated Empire''] (in English) page 57 article by Finn- Einar Eilassen 2006 Google Books</ref>
*[http://natmus.dk/en/forskning/research-projects/the-serampore-initiative/ The Serampore Initiative] National Museum of Denmark (retrieved 10 May 2014)
===Historical books online===
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V22_183.gif Serampore] Imperial Gazetteer
*The article "The Danes at Serampore", by F.B.Bradley Birt, ''Calcutta Review, No. 295, January 1919, (New [2nd] Series Volume 25)'', pages 92-118 is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. '''Note''' however, that it is in the volume which is catalogued as 1918, bar code 4990010048588. This volume has title page and contents pages for 1918, but articles for 1919. The article commences digital file page 101.
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