Dumdum

Dumdum (Dam Damá), a municipality $4\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ miles NE. of Calcutta. Pop. with troops, 4800. This was the scene of the first open manifestation against the greased cartridges, in the sepoymutiny of 1857. There is an arsenal and a manufactory of ammunition. The name is associated with 'expansive' bullets first made there; but the Dumdum bullets are not all necessarily of that nature.