Dum Dum Arsenal

Dum-Dum Arsenal was an Arsenal, British military facility located near the town of Dum Dum (near Calcutta) in modern West Bengal, India.

It was at this arsenal that Captain Neville Bertie-Clay developed the so-called "Dum-dum bullet" (Mark IV cartridge), containing an exposed-nose bullet designed to mushroom in flesh. This was the forerunner of the modern expanding bullet, later banned from use in warfare by the Hague Accords.

On the 7th of December 1908 a serious explosion occurred by accident at the Dum-Dum arsenal, resulting in death or serious injury to about 50 native workmen.^[1]

References

^ "Dum Dum". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

This Indian history-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] "Dum Dum". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[1]