Chatham Lines
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Chatham Lines is a township of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, located near the historic Prayag railway station. It is located within the city of Allahabad, and is famous for Kumbh Mela, a major pilgrimage and festival site in Hinduism.
Geography
Chatham Lines is adjacent to the railway colony and is also near the College of Engineering and Rural Technology. Nearly 36 plots of land were given to eminent individuals of India in 1935. Historians, Indian Civil Service officers, and other eminent people built bungalows on these plots.
History
One of the most renowned families of Yadav's lived there, and among them, Rai Bahadur Parmanand Ji was the most famous. He was the secretary of the Uttar Pradesh Board for High School and Intermediate Education in the early 1940s.
During and prior to the 1930s, there were Married Quarters available for British Army Soldiers at Chatham Lines (probably NCO's).
The township is home to the Allahabad University Chatham Lines Campus.[1][2]
References
- ^ "University of Allahabad". www.allduniv.ac.in. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
- ^ "Allahabad is renamed as Prayagraj". Retrieved 19 August 2020.
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