Belgaum

Belgaum
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Presidency: Bombay
Coordinates:	15°51'00.0"N 74°30'00.0"E
Altitude:	762 m (2,500 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Belgaum
State/Province:	Karnataka
Country:	India
Transport links
Southern Mahratta Railway

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Belgaum

Belgaum came under the control of the British in 1818 at the end of the 3rd Maratha War when the Maratha empire was broken up. It was the headquarters of Belgaum District in the Southern division of Bombay Presidency during the British period.

A cantonment was located there.

Spelling variants

Modern name: Belgaum
Variants: Belgaon, Belgam

Military history

Siege of Belgaum 1818

Interior St Mary's Church, Belgaum

Churches

St Mary's Church, Belgaum Karnataka dept of tourism

Internment Camp

There was an internment camp in Belgaum for German and Austrian civilians during the First World War. For more details see POW Camps in India

External links

• Photograph: Interior of Barrack Room, Belgaum 1860 and another view of the Interior of Barrack Room, Belgaum from this page of Prof Fran Pritchett’s Indian Routes website. Elsewhere these photographs are dated to between 1867 and 1870.
• Postcard: The Cantonment Garden, Belgaum The Army Children Archive (TACA).
• The Diary of Frederick Pendall, a member of the Norfolk regiment who was in Belgaum from March 1917 to March 1918. Now an archived webpage.

Historical books online

• Belgaum Town Imperial Gazetteer
• Belgaum Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency Vol XXI 1884
• Belgaum c 1827 page 412 The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle 1828 Google Books
• "London Missionary Society: Summary View of the Mission at Belgaum" page 360 ‪Missionary Register‬ for 1832, Church Missionary Society Google Books
• Belgaum September 1840 page 33 The Diary of Sergeant William Hall, …, late of Her Majesty’s Forty-First Regiment, containing The Incidents connected with two years campaign in Scinde and Affghanistan during the late War. c 1848 Google Books
• Belgaum page 450 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
• Sanitary report on the town of Belgaum dated 31 December 1868 Google Books
• Archaeological Survey of Western India : Report of the First Season's Operations in the Belgam and Kaladgi Districts: January to May 1874 by James Burgess 1874 Google Books
• My Year in an Indian Fort by Mrs Guthrie published 1877 Volume I, Volume II Archive.org

Life in Western India by Mrs Guthrie published 1881 Volume I, Volume II Archive,org

• Page 184, Volume I relates to Belgaum.

The author is stated to be Katharine [or more accurately Katherine] Blanche Guthrie. It appears she was staying in India with her daughter Margaret and her daughter's husband, Major William Augustus Gillespie, Staff Corps, Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (for Musketry), Belgaum. It is stated his garden was the "finest in Belgaum".

• Indian Embers by Lady Lawrence, first published 1948. Includes some chapters about Belgaum. Archive.org; 1991 reprint Archive.org Lending Library edition with an "Introduction" by Kenneth Wimmel, 2nd file. "Jane Rosamund Napier was already a published author...when she married Henry Lawrence in 1914 and set sail with him for India. She was his second wife...a mature woman of thirty-six..." The book covers the period to 1918. Her husband was a member of the Indian Civil Service, served as a district officer, and was Commissioner in Sind in 1918. Per Wikipedia, Henry Staveley Lawrence was acting Governor of Bombay 20 March 1926 to 8 December 1928.