Chatham Lines

Chatham Lines is a township of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.

This article is about a township in India. For the fortification at Chatham, England, see Chatham Dockyard ยง The Lines.

It lies just beyond the historic Prayag railway station of Allahabad city. Prayag is famous for Kumbh Mela, a major pilgrimage and festival in Hinduism.

Chatham Lines is adjacent to the railway colony and near the College of Engineering and Rural Technology. Nearly 36 plots of land were given to eminent individuals of India in 1935. Many historians, Indian Civil Service officers, and other eminent people built bungalows on these plots. One of the most renowned families of Yadav's lived there. Rai Bahadur Parmanand Ji was the most famous of these Yadav's. He was the Secretary of UP board for high school and intermediate education in the early 1940s.

In the 1930s and before Chatham Lines contained Married Quarters for British Army Soldiers (probably NCO's)

The Chatham Lines township is home to the Allahabad University Chatham Lines Campus.[1]

References
  1. "University of Allahabad". www.allduniv.ac.in. Retrieved 14 August 2020.


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