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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Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cantonment → historic place → town →
administrativeDivision	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 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 Mutiny of 1824 → 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	Kolkata →
locatedOn	Hooghly River →
namedAfter	military barracks →
nearbyCity	Kolkata →
nearbyTown	Panihati → Titagarh →
officialLanguage	Bengali → English →
parliamentaryConstituency	Barrackpore Lok Sabha constituency →
partOf	Kolkata Metropolitan Area →
policeJurisdiction	Barrackpore Police Commissionerate →
postalCodeType	PIN →
railwayLine	Sealdah–Ranaghat line →
region	Ganges Delta →
riverBank	east bank of the Hooghly River →
state	West Bengal →
timeZone	IST →
urbanAgglomeration	Kolkata Urban Agglomeration →
utcOffset	+05:30 →

Referenced by (11)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Barrackpore ("Barrackpore subdivision") →	administrativeDivision
Mangal Pandey →	associatedWith
West Bengal →	containsTown
Mangal Pandey →	deathPlace
Bengal Army →	garrisonLocation
Barrackpore ("Barrackpore Municipality") →	governingBody
Barrackpore incident of 1857 →	location
Mangal Pandey: The Rising →	narrativeLocation
Mangal Pandey →	placeOfActivity
Barrackpore ("Barrackpore Police Commissionerate") →	policeJurisdiction
Barrackpore incident of 1857 ("Barrackpore Cantonment") →	relatedTo