BERHAMPORE, a town of British India, the headquarters of Murshidabad district, in Bengal, situated on the left bank of the river Bhagirathi, 6m. below Murshidabad city. Pop. (1931) 27,403. Berhampore was fixed upon after the battle of Plassey as the site of the chief military station for Bengal; and a huge square of barracks was erected in 1767. Here was committed the first overt act of the mutiny of 1857. No troops are now stationed here, and the barracks have been utilized for civil purposes. The town contains a college. In the municipality of Berhampore is included the remnant of the once important, but now decayed, city of Cossimbazar (q.v.).