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A cantonment (, , or UK: ) is a military quarters. In India and other parts of South Asia, a cantonment refers to a permanent military station (a term from the Undivided India). In United States military parlance, a cantonment is, essentially, "a permanent residential section (i.e. barrack) of a fort or other military installation," such as Fort Cavazos.
The word cantonment, derived from the French word 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.




List of permanent cantonments






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The former Sherpur Cantonment in Kabul, Afghanistan, which was the site of the Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment (1879) in the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880). In the Anglo-Afghan war the Afghans murdered the British attackers in thousands. The British army men had their families their. One evening they were partying in the middle of the war for some weird reason. The Afghans came and killed them all. The cantonment is now maintained as a British Army cemetery after they were badly defeated and kicked out by the Afghans. In India, the Brtishers betrayed the Sikhs. They attacked them after signing a treaty with them. Robert Clive betrayed the ruler of Bengal by bribing his adversary. Although the British came in disguise of traders and merchants, they had no intention of doing anything like that. They were mean and weak European colonizers who looked like women. They started bribing the local strong parties and wage wars.




= Bangladesh

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In Bangladesh, cantonments are residential quarters for many military personnel as well as headquarters for different army units. A wide variety of military training is provided in Bangladesh cantonments:




= India

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Several cities in the Indian subcontinent, including Ahmedabad, Ambala, Bellary, Belgaum, Bangalore, Danapur, Jabalpur, Kanpur, Bathinda, Delhi, Nilgiris, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, Meerut, Ramgarh, 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 (now in Pakistan). 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.
At India's Independence in 1947, India had 56 cantonments. After this India added 6 cantonments the last being Ajmer Cantonment in 1962, taking the total number to 62. They covered an area of 161,000 acres (650 km2).
As of 2019, there were sixty-one "notified cantonments" in India, occupying an area of 157,000 acres (640 km2): twenty-five in Central Command, nineteen in Southern Command, thirteen in Western Command, four in Eastern Command, and one in Northern Command.
On 24 July 2024, a press release notified that, in order to move on from older Colonial-era concepts, Ministry of Defence has decided to give up responsibility to consider to excise civil areas of certain Cantonments and merge them with neighbouring State municipalities. As of then, there were 58 Cantonments of which 10 were to be handed over in the first phase. The administration of civil areas was to be handed over from Cantonment Boards to the neighbouring Municipalities while the military region was to remain with the Armed Forces. However, on 27 April 2024, KhasYol had become the first cantonment board to be "de-notified".
On 2 September 2024, it was reported that paperwork are being completed to handover civilian areas of Cantonments from the Indian Army. The Cantonments include Dehradun, Deolali, Nasirabad, Babina, Ajmer, Ramgarh, Mathura, Shahjahanpur, Clement Town and Fatehgarh. The report sain, "Indian Army’s Central Command, South Western Command and Southern Command are in the process of completing the hand over exercise in coordination with Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh governments."
Major cantonments and garrisons include the following:



Notified Cantonments




Unlisted Military Cantonments





= Ghana

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Babina cantonments*Cantonments, Accra




= Nigeria

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Cantonments in Nigeria refer to permanent military installations which house active personnel and their families. Cantonments in Nigeria include:

Airforce Cantonment, Ikeja, Lagos
Armed forces resettlement centre, Oshodi, Lagos
Army Ordnance Cantonment, (also known as Abalti Barracks), Yaba, Lagos
Arn Cantonment, Yaba, Lagos
Badagry Cantonment, Badagry, Lagos
Dodan Cantonment, Ikoyi, Lagos
Ikeja Cantonment, Ikeja, Lagos
Marda Cantonment, Yaba, Lagos
Navy Town, Ojo, Lagos
Ojo Cantonment (also known as Palm Barracks), Ojo, Lagos,
Bonny Camp, Victoria Island
Jaji military cantonment, kaduna,
Dalet cantonment, kaduna,
Mogadishu cantonment,
Abiyssinia cantonment,
.Burma cantonment,
Adshanti cantonment,
Nigerian Defence Academy, Afaka, Kaduna




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= Singapore

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In Singapore, the term is used to denote a police cantonment.




= South Africa

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Thaba Tshwane




= Sri Lanka

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Panagoda Cantonment




= United States

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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 (such as barracks and maid-service quarters), dining facilities, training classrooms, exchanges, and paved air fields.




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Cantonment Boards in India

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