Cantonment


A cantonment is a military or police quarters.
The word cantonment, derived from the French word :fr:canton|canton, meaning corner or district, refers to a temporary military or winter encampment. For example, at the start of the Waterloo campaign in 1815, while the Duke of Wellington's headquarters were in Brussels, most of his Anglo–allied army of 93,000 soldiers were cantoned, or stationed, to the south of Brussels.
In India and other parts of South Asia a cantonment refers to a permanent military station. In United States military parlance, a cantonment is, essentially, "a permanent residential section of a fort or other military installation," such as Fort Hood.

List of permanent cantonments

Afghanistan

The former Sherpur Cantonment in Kabul, Afghanistan, which was the site of the Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, is now maintained as a British Army cemetery.

Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, cantonments are residential quarters for many military personnel aside from soldiers. These individuals include officers, teachers, military doctors, military nurses, junior commanding officers, and non–commissioned Officers. A wide variety of military training is provided in the Bangladeshi cantonments:
The Indian Army maintains a training mission in Bhutan, known as the Indian Military Training Team which is responsible for the military training of the Royal Bhutan Army and Royal Bodyguard personnel. All RBA and RBG officers are sent for training at the National Defence Academy and the Indian Military Academy. Moreover, Project Dantak, a division of the Indian Border Roads Organisation and subdivision of the Indian Army Corps of Engineers, was established in Bhutan on 24 April 1961, with its first commanding officer, Colonel TV Jaganathan. Project Dantak has since been responsible for the construction and maintenance of more than of roads and bridges, Paro Airport, a disused airfield at Yongphulla Airport, heliports, and other infrastructure. These serve India's strategic defence needs, but also provide economic benefits for the Bhutani citizens.

British India

Several cities among the Indian subcontinent, such as Ahmedabad, Ambala, Belgaum, Bangalore, Danapur, Jabalpur, Kanpur, Bathinda, Delhi, Meerut, Pune, Peshawar, Ramgarh, Rawalpindi, Sialkot, Secunderabad, and Trichy, contained large cantonments of the former British Indian Army, with Meerut and Ramgarh being two of the most important cantonments in northern India, second only to the headquarters at Rawalpindi. Meerut was established in 1803 and for 150 years was the largest cantonment in the region. Although cantonments in India were considered to be semi-permanent in the 18th and 19th centuries, by the turn of the 20th century they had transitioned to being permanent garrisons. They were further entrenched as such, via the military reforms of Lord Kitchener in 1903, and the Cantonments Act of 1924.

Ghana

Cantonments in Nigeria refer to permanent military installations which house active personnel and their families. Cantonments in Nigeria include:
In Singapore, the term is used to denote a police cantonment.

Sri Lanka

The United States military commonly uses the term "cantonment" to describe the permanent facilities at U.S. Army training bases as opposed to the field training areas. Cantonment areas often include housing, dining facilities, training classrooms, exchanges, and paved air fields.

India

There are sixty-two "notified cantonments" in India, occupying an area of 1,057,000 acres: twenty-five in Central Command, nineteen in Southern Command, thirteen in Western Command, four in Eastern Command, and one in Northern Command. In addition 15,096,000 acres are in use for military garrisons, offices, and training areas. Major cantonments and garrisons include the following:

Notified Cantonments

  1. Agra Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh, Central Command
  2. Ahmedabad Cantonment, Gujarat, Southern Command
  3. Ahmednagar Cantonment, Maharashtra, Southern Command
  4. Varanasi Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh, Central Command
  5. Ajmer Cantonment, Rajasthan, Southern Command
  6. Allahabad Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh, Central Command
  7. Almora Cantonment, Uttarakhand, Central Command
  8. Ambala Cantonment, Haryana, Western Command
  9. Amritsar Cantonment, Punjab, Western Command
  10. Aurangabad Cantonment, Maharashtra, Southern Command
  11. Babina Cantonment, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, Southern Command
  12. Badamibagh Cantonment, Jammu and Kashmir, Northern Command
  13. Bakloh Cantonment, Chamba District, Himachal Pradesh, Western Command
  14. Bareilly Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh, Central Command
  15. Barrackpore, West Bengal, Eastern Command
  16. Belgaum Cantonment, Karnataka, Southern Command
  17. Cannanore Cantonment, Kerala, Southern Command
  18. Chakrata Cantonment, Uttarakhand, Central Command
  19. Clement Town Cantonment, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, Central Command
  20. Dagshai Cantonment, Himachal Pradesh, Western Command
  21. Dalhousie Cantonment, Himachal Pradesh, Western Command
  22. Danapur Cantonment, Bihar, Central Command
  23. Dehradun Cantonment, Uttarakhand, Central Command
  24. Yol Cantonment, Himachal Pradesh, Western Command
  25. Dehu Road Cantonment, Maharashtra, Southern Command
  26. Delhi Cantonment, Delhi, Western Command
  27. Deolali Cantonment, Maharashtra, Southern Command
  28. Dum Dum Cantonment, West Bengal, Eastern Command
  29. Faizabad Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh, Central Command
  30. Faizabad New Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh, Central Command
  31. Fatehgarh Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh, Central Command
  32. Ferozepur Cantonment, Punjab, Western Command
  33. Gopalpur Cantonment, Odisha, Central Command
  34. Jabalpur Cantonment, Madhya Pradesh, Central Command
  35. Jalandhar Cantonment, Punjab, Western Command
  36. Jalapahar, Darjeeling, West Bengal, Eastern Command
  37. Jammu Cantonment, Jammu and Kashmir, Western Command
  38. Jhansi Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh, Southern Command
  39. Jutogh Cantonment, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, Western Command
  40. Kamptee Cantonment, Maharashtra, Southern Command
  41. Kanpur Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh, Central Command
  42. Kasauli Cantonment, Himachal Pradesh, Western Command
  43. Khas Yol Cantonment, Kangara, Himachal Pradesh, Western Command
  44. Kirkee Cantonment, Maharashtra, Southern Command
  45. Landour Cantonment, Uttarakhand, Central Command
  46. Lansdowne Cantonment, Uttarakhand, Central Command
  47. Lebong, Darjeeling, West Bengal, Eastern Command
  48. Lucknow Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh, Central Command
  49. Mathura Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh, Central Command
  50. Meerut Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh, Central Command
  51. Mhow Cantonment, Madhya Pradesh, Central Command
  52. Morar Cantonment, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, Southern Command
  53. Nainital Cantonment, Uttarakhand, Central Command
  54. Nasirabad Cantonment, Rajasthan, Southern Command
  55. Pachmarhi Cantonment, Madhya Pradesh, Central Command
  56. Pune Cantonment, Maharashtra, Southern Command
  57. Ramgarh Cantonment, Jharkhand, Central Command
  58. Ranikhet Cantonment, Uttarakhand, Central Command
  59. Roorkee Cantonment, Uttarakhand, Central Command
  60. Saugor Cantonment, Madhya Pradesh, Southern Command
  61. Secunderabad Cantonment, Telangana, Southern Command
  62. Shahajahanpur Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh, Central Command
  63. Shillong Cantonment, Meghalaya, Eastern Command
  64. St. Thomas Mount Cantonment, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Southern Command
  65. Subathu Cantonment, Shimla Hills, Himachal Pradesh, Western Command
  66. Wellington Cantonment, Tamil Nadu, Southern Command

    Unlisted Military Cantonments

  67. Abohar Cantonment
  68. Varanasi Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh, Central Command
  69. Akhnoor Cantonment
  70. Baddowal Cantonment
  71. Bangalore Cantonment
  72. Bikaner Cantonment
  73. Bhatinda Cantonment
  74. Bhuj Cantonment
  75. Bhopal Cantonment
  76. Chandimandir Cantonment
  77. Faridkot Cantonment
  78. Fazilka Cantonment
  79. Gandhinagar Cantonment
  80. Gopalpur Cantonment
  81. Narengi Cantonment
  82. Hisar Cantt
  83. Itarana Cantonment
  84. Jaipur Cantonment
  85. Jaisalmer Cantonment
  86. Jodhpur Cantonment
  87. Joshimath Cantonment
  88. Kapurthala Cantonment
  89. Khasa Cantonment
  90. Ludhiana Cantonment
  91. Mamun Cantonment
  92. Missamari Cantonment
  93. Nagrota Cantonment
  94. Pathankot Cantonment
  95. Patiala Cantonment
  96. Pithoragarh Cantonment
  97. Dipatoli Cantonment
  98. Shahjahanpur Cantonment
  99. Solmara Cantonment
  100. Sri Ganganagar Cantonment
  101. Suratgarh Cantonment
  102. Thiruvananthapuram Cantonment
  103. Tibri Cantonment
  104. Udhampur Cantonment
  105. Vadodra Cantonment