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'''Ishapore''' was located near [[Barrackpore]], outside of [[Calcutta]]
The first Arms Manufacturing facility on the site was a gunpowder factory, which was started in 1787 and began production in 1791. In 1904, a Rifle Factory was established at Ishapore, and began production of the Lee-Enfield rifle. Kukris ( or ‘khukuri’) , Nepalese knives used by the [[Gurkha Rifles|Gurkha Regiments]] were also manufactured at Ishapore<ref>Thread from Sword Forum [http://www.swordforum.com/forums/showthread.php?110281-1927-RFI-MKII-Kukri 1927 RFI MKII Kukri] with images. Images are also available on [http://s250.photobucket.com/user/Finnarm/media/RFIfactory.gif.html Photobucket]</ref>
==Spelling variants==
*[http://ihr.sagepub.com/content/39/1/19.full.pdf+html "Working at the Ichapur Gunpowder Factory in the 1790s (Part I)"] by Jan Lucassen International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ''Indian Historical Review 39'' (2012-1) 19-56
**Working at the Ichapur Gunpowder Factory in the 1790s (Part II) Indian Historical Review December 2012 39: 251-271 is available free only as an [http://ihr.sagepub.com/content/39/2/251.abstract abstract]
*[http://rfi.nic.in/history.htm Rifle Factory Ishapore : History]
*[http://www.msf.gov.in/about_us.htm Metal & Steel Factory Ishapore]
*[http://barry-lewis.com/ishapore/ Ishapore .303 Enfield] barry-lewis.com
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130218080449/http://enfield-stuff.com/regimentals/rifles/enfield_queue/Queue_India.htm Enfield Rifles from Ishapore] from Enfield-Stuff.com, now an archived website.
*[http://www.allaboutenfields.co.nz/smle/ishapore-mkiii/ Ishapore MkIII] allaboutenfields.co.nz
==Historical books online==
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924030697688#page/n5/mode/2up ''Sketch of the mode of manufacturing gunpowder at the Ishapore mills in Bengal''] by William Anderson 1862 Archive.org
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