Kamptee

Kamptee
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Presidency:
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