Barrackpore
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Barrackpore is a city and a municipality of north suburban Kolkata and situated in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The area is covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). It is the administrative headquarters of the Barrackpore subdivision.
Image: Barrackpore Railway Station Area North 24 Parganas 2012 04 11 9671
Image: Mangal Pandey Park Barrackpore North 24 Parganas 2012 04 11 9508
St Bartholomew's Cathedral, Barrackpore
Barrackpore Chiria More is the junction of Barrackpore Trunk Road and Surendranath Banerjee Road
Barrackpore mutiny of 1824
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The Barrackpore mutiny was a rising of native Indian sepoys against their British officers in Barrackpore in November 1824. The incident occurred when the British East India Company was fighting the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–1826) under the leadership of the Governor-General of Bengal, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst.
A portrait of General Sir Edward Paget, who suppressed the mutiny.
A board on Bindee Tiwari's revolt at Barrackpore Cantonment
Earl Amherst, Governor General of India, was harshly criticised by a British newspaper report.