Bhopal
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| Bhopal | |
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| Presidency: Bengal | |
| Coordinates: | 23.259933°N 77.412615°E |
| Altitude: | 427 metres (1,401 ft) |
| Present Day Details | |
| Place Name: | Bhopal |
| State/Province: | Madhya Pradesh |
| Country: | India |
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| See our interactive map of this location showing places of interest during the British period | |
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Bhopal was a town in the Central Indian Agency (Wikipedia) and was the junction of the Midland section of the Great Indian Peninsula and Bhopal-Ujjain Railways, 521 miles from Bombay.
Spelling Variants
Modern name: Bhopal
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History
Military
POW Camp at Bairagarh
During the Second World War, there was a large Prisoner of War Camp for Italian prisoners at Bairagarh, then a locality near Bhopal, now a part of Bhopal. See POW Camps in India.
Churches and missions
Cemeteries
Places of interest
Education
Transport
Records
External links
- Bhopal Imperial Gazetteer of India
- Map of Central India Agency 1909 Wikipedia
- RAF Bhopal rafweb.org (retrieved 1 July 2014)
Historical books online
- Bhopal page 367 The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842 Volume II Google Books
- Central India State Gazetteer Series. Compliled by Captain C E Luard, Superintendent of Gazetteer in Central India.This series includes
- Bhopal State Gazetteer Volume III Text and Tables 1908. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.