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

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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

Modern name: Nagpur
Variants: Nagpore, Nagpoor.

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

Nagpur City Imperial Gazetteer of India v18 p318
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