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There The cantonment at Nagpur was at Seetabuldee (Sitabardi, Sitabuldi) and there was a major cantonment in the vicinity at [[Kamptee]].
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'''Nagpur''' was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V10_210.gif 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]]
== Military history ==
*[[Battle of Seetabuldee]] November 1817*[[Siege of Nagpore]] December 1817
== Spelling Variants ==
Modern name: Nagpur<br>
Variants: Nagpore, Nagpoor.<br>
==Also see==
*[[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]]
*[[Nagpur Rifles]]
==Churches==
*All Saints Church, Seetabuldee. In existence in 1869.<ref>Malone, Heather. [https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/15660249/ Baptisms in Kamptee and Seetabuldee] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 26 November 1999. Retrieved 9 July 2019.</ref>
==External links==
*[http://railwaysofraj.blogspot.com/2010/08/musings-from-ajni.html Ajni Nagpur Railway Colony] Railways of the Raj*[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/man-who-sailed-up-the-ganges-and-died-in-nagpur/articleshow/71318369.cms "Man who sailed up the ganges and died in Nagpur"] by Shishir Arya Sep 27, 2019 ''The Times of India'', Nagpur City. George Forster spent his last years at Nagpur as the East India Company’s envoy at the Bhonsla king’s court from 1788 to 1791, where he died at the age of 39, reportedly of fever. ===Historical books online===*''An Atlas of the Southern Part of India'' 1854 Archive.org**[https://archive.org/stream/atlasofsouthernp00phar#page/n121/mode/1up Plan of the City of Nagpoor] :*[https://archive.org/stream/atlasofsouthernp00phar#page/n123/mode/1up Plan of Nagpoor and its Environs] *[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V18_324.gif Nagpur City] Imperial Gazetteer of India v18 p318<br>*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62005/page/n1 ''Early European Travellers In The Nagpur Territories. Reprinted from Old Records''] 1930 Archive.org. Accounts of five Journeys by T Motte in 1766 (page 1), by Leckie in 1790, (page 51 and page 74), Captain J T Blunt in 1795 (page 91), and an unknown author in 1799 (page 175). No author appears on the title page of the book, however the author is catalogued as Narendrachandra Vedantatirtha. Note there is an unconnected book which follows the last page of the title, page 229.*[http://wwwbooks.google.com.au/books?id=U6_bUukB-nIC&pg=PA298 Nagpore] page 298 ''The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842 Volume II'' Google Books*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=iwkFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''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.1911encyclopedia1860 Google Books*[https://archive.org/Nagpur Nagpurdetails/reportuponmilit00commgoog ''Report upon the military cantonments of Kamptee and Seetabuldee''] Love to Know 1911<br>by J L Ranking, Surgeon Major, Sanitary Commissioner for Madras 1869 Archive.org*[http://railwaysofrajnagpur.blogspotnic.comin/2010gazetteer/08gaz1908/musings-from-ajnihome.html Ajni ''Central Provinces District Gazetteers: Nagpur Railway ColonyDistrict''] Transcription of 1908 edition. nagpur.nic.in/gazetteer*[https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:244669/ The Battle of Seetabuldee, Nagpore, East India] Railways Coloured aquatint by Orme, after Bayley. Brown University Library. Shows the landscape of the Rajsurrounding area. ==References==<references/> {{#widget:Google PlusOne|size=small|count=true}}
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