Dinapore

Dinapore (Dánápur), military headquarters of the district of Patna in Bengal, on the Ganges, 12 miles W. of Patna city by a road lined with houses throughout. It is divided into two parts, the Cantonments and the Nizamat, or city proper. Pop. 44,419, of whom nearly 25,000 reside within the Nizamat. In the mutiny of 1857 the three sepoys regiments stationed here rose in July, and escaped into Shahabad district, where they attacked Arrah (q.v.)