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| | tribuneindia... Regional Vignettes |
 | | After the disintegration of the Moghul Empire and the reduction of Shah Alam as a mere puppet, the regions of Bengal, Orissa, Bihar and Awadh, Madras and Bombay had been annexed and the Marathas were finally subjugated after the Third Anglo-Maratha war (1817-18) by the Company Bahadur. |
 | | However, the Gurkha War (1814-16), despite it having been successfully culminated in favour of the British, had left the conquerors a bit uneasy. |
 | | While no official records were available, some of the older citizens say that the Central Jail was also used to lodge German and Italian prisoners of war in 1944. |
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