Kamptee
| Kamptee | |
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| Coordinates: | 21.135988°N, 79.120°E |
| Altitude: | 269 m |
| Present Day Details | |
| Place Name: | Kamthi |
| State/Province: | Maharashtra |
| Country: | India |
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Kamptee (also Kamthi) is a town just outside Nagpur in the Central Provinces that originally grew up around a military cantonment. It was at one time a flourishing trading town.
Cantonment
The cantonment was established in 1821 and until the end of the century controlled the entire Nagpur District.
Cemetery
This India List post dated November 2009 is about the location and condition of the Christ Church cemetery, Kamptee
External links
- Kamptee Wikipedia
- Kamptee Bob Holland’s Rampais website
- Sydney Lobo’s Nagpur Kamptee Blog
- Kamptee Cantonment Board (retrieved 18 May 2014)
Historical books online
- Kamptee Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 14, p. 329
- Kamptee page 74, The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal Volume 68 1847. The cantonment was classified as one of the "Stations on the Table Lands"
- The cantonment at Kamptee page 277 Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862 Google Books
- Report upon the Military Cantonments of Kamptee and Seetabuldee by J L Ranking Surgeon Major, Sanitary Commissioner for Madras 1869 Google Books
- List Of Inscriptions on Tombs or Monuments in the Central Provinces and Berar by O S Crofton 1932. Contents digital file page 11 from Mandla (the previous page appears to be missing). A number of pages are missing at the beginning of the book. The inscriptions commence digital file page 17 (book page 4). Crofton, in the Introduction, mentions that the numbers killed by tigers and other animals of the jungle “is considerably larger than would appear from the lists”. This book is also available on LDS microfilm 795967 (Ordering microfilms)
- Kamptee Cemetery records commence digital file page 27 (book page 16)
