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Berhampur, Murshidabad, India
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or A town of British India, the headquarters of Murshidabad district, in Bengal, situated on the left bank of the river Bhagirathi, 5 m. below Murshidabad city. Pop. (1901) 2 4,397. Berhampur was fixed upon after the battle of Plassey as the site of the chief military station for Bengal; and a huge square of brick barracks was erected in 1767, at a cost of 30o,000. Here was committed the first overt act of the mutiny, on the 25th of February 1857. No troops are now stationed here, and the barracks have been utilized for a jail, a lunatic asylum and other civic buildings. A college, founded by government in 1853, was made over in 1888 to a local committee, being mainly supported by the munificence of the rani Svarnamayi. In the municipality of Berhampur is included the remnant of the once important, but now utterly decayed city of Cossimbazar.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Berhampur, Murshidabad, India'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/berhampur-murshidabad-india.html. 1910.
