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CANTONMENTS

Q1. What are Cantonments?
Are areas developed by the British for military establishments and residential accommodation for their personnel. There are about 62 of them and are termed as municipalities, although they still remain to be called as Cantonments for example - Agra Cantonment etc.,
Q2. Which was the first and second cantonment to be established?
1. Barrackpore - West Bengal - 1758. 2. Denapur - Bihar - 1768.
Q3. What was the background under which cantonments were established?
The cantonments were originally permanent and or temporary military Quarters for their personnel, founded by the British. They were made permanent by the military reforms initiated by Lord Kichener in 1903 and by the Cantonments Act of 1924. The cantonments are mainly found in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and South Africa.
Q4. How many such cantonments are there and mention a few important ones?
There are about 62 of them in India, spread across all states. Few popular of them are: 1. Ahmedabad , Gujarat. 2. Allahabad,UP 3. Ambala, Haryana - an important forward air base. 4. Almora, Uttaranchal 5. Agra, UP. 6. Badami Bagh, Srinagar 7. Bengaluru, Karnataka 8. Bareilly, UP 9. Bhatinda, Punjab 10. Barrackpore, Kolkatta, WB 11. Chakrata, Dehradun, Uttarakhand. 12. Chandimandi, Chandigarh 13. St.Thomas Mount, Chennai. 14. Chandigarh 15. Clement Town, Dehradun. 16. Delhi 17. Dehu Road, Pune, Maharashtra. 18. Denapur, Bihar. 19. Jabalpur, M.P. 20. Jaipur, Rajasthan 21. Jallandhar, Punjab. 22. Jodhpur, Rajasthan 23. Kasauli, H.P. 24. Kapurthala, Punjab 25. Khadki, Pune, Maharashtra. 26. Kolkatta. 27. Kamptee, Nagpur, Maharashtra. 28. Landour, Mussorie 29. Lansdowne, Garhwal. 30. Lucknow, UP 31. Mathura, UP 32. Meerut, UP 33. Mhow, MP 34. Nagrotta, Jammu 35. Nainital, Uttarakhand. 36. Nashik, Maharashtra. 37. Patna, Bihar. 38. Pune, Maharashtra. 39. Ranikhet, Almora, Uttarakhand. 40. Secunderabad, A.P 41. Shillong, Assam. 42. Shimla, H.P 43. Tiruchirapalli, Tamilnadu 44. Udampur, J & K.