Barrackpore

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cantonment historic place town

Barrackpore is a historic cantonment town in West Bengal, India, notable as an early British military base and a key site in the events leading up to the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

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Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form Occurrences
Barrackpore Cantonment 1
Barrackpore Municipality 1
Barrackpore Police Commissionerate 1

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf cantonment ⓘ
historic place ⓘ
town ⓘ
administrativeDivision Barrackpore self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Barrackpore subdivision
climate tropical wet and dry climate ⓘ
colonialPower British Empire ⓘ
country India ⓘ
distanceFromKolkata approximately 23 km north ⓘ
establishedAsCantonmentBy British East India Company ⓘ
governingBody Barrackpore self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Barrackpore Municipality
hasEducationalInstitution Rashtraguru Surendranath College ⓘ
hasMemorial statue of Mangal Pandey ⓘ
hasPlaceOfInterest Flagstaff House ⓘ
Gandhi Ghat ⓘ
Indira Gandhi Memorial Botanical Garden ⓘ
Mangal Pandey Park ⓘ
hasRole cantonment town ⓘ
hasTransport Barrackpore railway station ⓘ
historicalEvent Barrackpore incident of 1857 ⓘ
surface form: Barrackpore Mutiny of 1824

Barrackpore incident of 1857 ⓘ
surface form: Mangal Pandey incident of 1857
historicalSignificance early center of British administration in Bengal ⓘ
knownFor early British military base in India ⓘ
role in events leading to the Indian Rebellion of 1857 ⓘ
legislativeConstituency Barrackpore Assembly constituency ⓘ
locatedIn North 24 Parganas district ⓘ
locatedNear Calcutta ⓘ
surface form: Kolkata
locatedOn Hooghly River ⓘ
namedAfter military barracks ⓘ
nearbyCity Calcutta ⓘ
surface form: Kolkata
nearbyTown Panihati ⓘ
Titagarh ⓘ
officialLanguage Bengali ⓘ
English ⓘ
parliamentaryConstituency Barrackpore Lok Sabha constituency ⓘ
partOf Kolkata Metropolitan Area ⓘ
policeJurisdiction Barrackpore self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Barrackpore Police Commissionerate
postalCodeType PIN ⓘ
railwayLine Sealdah–Ranaghat line ⓘ
region Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta ⓘ
surface form: Ganges Delta
riverBank east bank of the Hooghly River ⓘ
state West Bengal ⓘ
timeZone IST ⓘ
urbanAgglomeration Kolkata Metropolitan Area ⓘ
surface form: Kolkata Urban Agglomeration
utcOffset +05:30 ⓘ

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Barrackpore → administrativeDivision → Barrackpore self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Barrackpore subdivision
Mangal Pandey → associatedWith → Barrackpore ⓘ
West Bengal → containsTown → Barrackpore ⓘ
Mangal Pandey → deathPlace → Barrackpore ⓘ
Bengal Army → garrisonLocation → Barrackpore ⓘ
Barrackpore → governingBody → Barrackpore self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Barrackpore Municipality
Mangal → placeOfActivity → Barrackpore ⓘ
subject surface form: Mangal Pandey
Barrackpore → policeJurisdiction → Barrackpore self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Barrackpore Police Commissionerate
this entity surface form: Barrackpore Cantonment