Berhampore

Hundreds of puja pandals are set up every year in the Berhampore, Cossimbazar, Khagra, Madhupur, Gorabazaar area.

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Berhampore: that won't do: Berlin: Berling: Bernina: Berry -- what's that?

Recalled to Life Grant Allen 1873

It become known, too, that a native officer had before the rising of Berhampore given warning of the mutiny, and had stated that there was a widespread plot throughout the native regiments to rise, kill their officers, and then march to Delhi, where they were all to gather.

Rujub, the Juggler 1867

To-day I have received news from Calcutta that the Nineteenth native regiment at Berhampore has behaved in a grossly mutinous manner, and that it is feared the regiments at Barrackpore and Dumdum will follow their example.

In Times of Peril 1867

We arrived at Kishengunj, on the Mahanuddy, on the 3rd of May, and were delayed two days for our boat, which should have been waiting here to take us to Berhampore on the Ganges: we were, however, hospitably received by Mr. Perry's family.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

This once populous town is, like Berhampore, now quite decayed, since the decline of its silk and indigo trades: the staple product, called

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

At Berhampore, more than a hundred miles above Calcutta, and

Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 James Kennedy 1857

Ghazeepore, Buxar, Monghyr, Dinapore, Patna, and Berhampore, in most of which we had the pleasure of meeting missionary brethren.

Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 James Kennedy 1857

That no medical man, servant, or individual of any kind, in attendance on the sick, was taken ill at Berhampore, when the cholera prevailed there that year, and refers, to his Report for 1825, in which he remarked the same thing in the hospital of the 67th regiment at

Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the community. William Fergusson 1809

Berhampore resident Craig Krestani, who copped a $21 ticket, said it would have been issued during one of the most nail-biting periods of the game.

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