Nagpur

Nagpur
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates:	21.07°N, 79.27°E
Altitude:	310 metres (1,020 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Nagpur
State/Province:	Maharashtra
Country:	India
Transport links
Great Indian Peninsula Railway Bengal-Nagpur Railway

FibiWiki Maps
See our interactive map of this location showing places of interest during the British period
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Nagpur was the headquarters of Nagpur District in the Nagpur Division of Central Provinces during the British period. It was the capital of Central Provinces and the leading industrial & commercial town in the centre of India. It was the terminus station for both the Great Indian Peninsula Railway and the Bengal-Nagpur Railway

The cantonment at Nagpur was at Seetabuldee (Sitabardi, Sitabuldi) and there was a major cantonment in the vicinity at Kamptee.

Military history

• Battle of Seetabuldee November 1817
• Siege of Nagpore December 1817

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Nagpur
Variants: Nagpore, Nagpoor.

Also see

• Nagpur District
• Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway
• Bengal-Nagpur Railway
• Great Indian Peninsula Railway
• Nagpur Rifles

Churches

• All Saints Church, Seetabuldee. In existence in 1869.

External links

• Ajni Nagpur Railway Colony Railways of the Raj
• Sydney Lobo’s Nagpur Kamptee Blog

Historical books online

• An Atlas of the Southern Part of India 1854 Archive.org
  • Plan of the City of Nagpoor

• Plan of Nagpoor and its Environs

• Nagpur City Imperial Gazetteer of India v18 p318
• Early European Travellers In The Nagpur Territories. Reprinted from Old Records 1930 Archive.org. No author appears on the title page, however the author is catalogued as Narendrachandra Vedantatirtha.
• Nagpore page 298 The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842 Volume II Google Books
• The Wild Sports of India; with remarks on the breeding and rearing of horses, and the formation of light irregular cavalry by Captain Henry Shakespear, Commandant Nagpore Irregular Force. 1860 Google Books
• Report upon the military cantonments of Kamptee and Seetabuldee by J L Ranking, Surgeon Major, Sanitary Commissioner for Madras 1869 Archive.org
• Central Provinces District Gazetteers: Nagpur District Transcription of 1908 edition. nagpur.nic.in/gazetteer
• The Battle of Seetabuldee, Nagpore, East India Coloured aquatint by Orme, after Bayley. Brown University Library. Shows the landscape of the surrounding area.