Allahabad (Allahabad`) , the City of God, a central city of British India, on the confluence of the Ganges and the Jumna, 550 m. from Calcutta, and on the railway between that city and Bombay.
Population (circa 1900) given as 175,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Al`lah * Allan, David