Berhampore (Bengal Presidency)
| Berhampore (Bengal Presidency) | |
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| Presidency: Bengal | |
| Coordinates: | 24.1°N 88.25°E |
| Altitude: | 18 m (59 ft) |
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| Place Name: | Baharampur |
| State/Province: | West Bengal |
| Country: | India |
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| Berhampore (Bengal Presidency) |
Berhampore is situated on the Hooghly River, around 120 miles upstream of Calcutta. It was one of the early HEIC factories and a British cantonment. It was the headquarters of the Murshidabad District in the Rajshahi division of Bengal during the British period.
Spelling variants
Modern name: Baharampur
Variants: Berhampore/Berhampur/Brahmapur/Burhanpore
History
After the Battle of Plassey in June 1757, Berhampore was chosen as the site of the chief military station for Bengal and a huge square of brick barracks was erected in 1767. The town continued as a cantonment until 1870.
In one of the first acts of the Indian Mutiny, the 19th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry mutinied here in 1857.
Military history
Mutiny at Berhampore 1857
Cemeteries
Babulbona cemetery or Berhampore cemetery. Eleven English graves (named) are still intact.[1]
External links
- 'View of the Cantonments at Berhampore' Aquatint, drawn and engraved by James Moffat, published Calcutta 1806. First established in around 1767. British Library Online Gallery.
- "The barracks of Berhampore", livelystories.com, now archived.
- Places to visit - Berhampore. Scroll down to the Berhampore Cantonment and Berhampore Cemetery. murshidabad.net
- Residency Cemetery, Babulbona Wikipedia.
- Residency Cemetery also known as Station Burial Ground Babulbona, Baharampur. Archaeological Survey of India asikolkata.in. "...this huge European Cemetery is one of the historical relics of Baharampur".
Historical books online
- Berhampore Imperial Gazetteer
- "Mofussil Stations: No VIII Berhampore" [No VII according to the Contents page] page 245, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, Vol 11, New Series, May-Aug 1833. Google Books.
- The cantonment at Berhampore, page 290 Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862 Google Books
- Berhampore page 353 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
- "Berhampore" page 174 Bengal District Gazetteers: Murshidabad by L.S.S. O'Malley 1914. Archive.org
References
- ↑ English and Dutch Cemeteries of Murshidabad, now an archived webpage.