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BARRACKPUR

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 427 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARRACKPUR , a See also:

town and magisterial subdivision of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:district of Twenty-four Parganas, See also:Bengal. The town is the largest See also:cantonment in See also:Lower Bengal, having See also:accommodation for two batteries of See also:artillery, the wing of a See also:European See also:regiment and two native battalions. Its name is said to be derived from the fact of troops having been stationed here since 1772. It is a station on the Eastern Bengal railway. See also:Job 426 See also:Charnock, the founder of See also:Calcutta, erected a See also:bungalow and established a small See also:bazaar here in 1689. The cantonment is situated on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Hugh; it has also a large bazaar and several large tanks, and also a See also:parade ground. To the See also:south of the cantonment is situated the See also:park, created by the See also:taste and public spirit of See also:Lord See also:Wellesley. Within the park is situated the See also:Government See also:House, a See also:noble See also:building begun by Lord See also:Minto, and enlarged into its See also:present See also:state by the See also:marquess of See also:Hastings. The park is beautifully laid out, and contains a small See also:menagerie. Its most interesting feature is now See also:Lady See also:Canning's See also:tomb. Barrackpur played an important See also:part in the two See also:Sepoy mutinies of 1824 and 1857, but the details of these belong to the See also:general See also:history of British See also:rule in India. See also:North Barrackpur had a See also:population in 1901 of 12,600 and south Barrackpur of 19,307.

Barrackpur subdivision was formed in 1904. It contains an See also:

area of 190 sq. m., which, at the See also:census of 1901, had a population of 206,311, a large proportion being workers in the See also:mills on the left bank of the See also:Hugli.

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