Cantonment

A cantonment (/kænˈtɒnmənt/,
/kænˈtoʊnmənt/, or UK: /kænˈtuːnmənt/) is
a military or police quarters.[1]

The word cantonment derives from the

French word canton meaning corner or
district[2] and describes a place during a
military campaign, such as winter
quarters, where units of an army may be
encamped for longer periods than they are
during advances and retreats. The term
shares an etymological origin with the
Swiss Cantons though the meaning has
widely diverged.

In South Asia, the term cantonment also

describes permanent military stations.[1]
Cantonments can be found in Bangladesh,
India, Pakistan, South Africa, Singapore,
Malaysia, Ghana, Sri Lanka and Nepal. In
United States military parlance, a
cantonment is an essentially permanent
residential (i.e. barracks) section of a fort
or other military installation such as Fort
Hood.

Campaigning
During a campaign, cantonments are
places of encampment formed by troops
for a more permanent stay, or while in
winter quarters.[1] 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 were cantoned to the south
of Brussels.[3]

List of permanent
cantonments
Afghanistan
The former Sherpur Cantonment in Kabul,
Afghanistan - site of the 1879 Siege of the
Sherpur Cantonment in the Second Anglo-
Afghan War - is now maintained as a
British Military Cemetery.

Bangladesh

Alikadam Cantonment, Cox's Bazar

Bandarban Cantonment, Bandarban
Bangladesh Military Academy,
Chittagong
Chittagong Cantonment, Chittagong
Comilla Cantonment, Comilla
Dhaka Cantonment, Dhaka
Dighinala Cantonment, Rangamati
Halishahar Cantonment, Chittagong
Jahanabad Cantonment, Khulna
Jahangirabad Cantonment, Bogra
Jalalabad Cantonment, Sylhet
Jamuna Cantonment, Tangail
Jessore Cantonment, Jessore
Kaptai Cantonment, Kaptai
Khagrachari Cantonment, Khagrachari
Kholahati Cantonment, Dinajpur
Majhira Cantonment, Bogra
Mirpur Cantonment, Dhaka
Mymensingh Cantonment, Mymensingh
Padma Cantonment, Tangail
 Postogola Cantonment, Dhaka
Qadirabad Cantonment, Natore
Rajendrapur Cantonment, Gazipur
Rajshahi Cantonment, Rajshahi
Ramu Cantonment, Cox's Bazar
Rangamati Cantonment, Rangamati
Rangpur Cantonment, Rangpur
Saidpur Cantonment, Rangpur
Savar Cantonment, Dhaka
Shahid Salahuddin Cantonment, Ghatail

Bhutan

The Indian Army maintains a training

mission in Bhutan, known as the Indian
Military Training Team (IMTRAT),
responsible for the military training of RBA
and RBG personnel. [8] RBA and RBG
officers are sent for training at the
National Defence Academy (NDA) in Pune,
and Indian Military Academy (IMA) in
Dehradun. [9] Project DANTAK of the
Border Roads Organisation, a sub-division
of the Indian Army Corps of Engineers, has
been operating in Bhutan since May 1961.
Since then Project DANTAK has been
responsible for the construction and
maintenance of over 1,500 km of roads
and bridges, Paro Airport and a disused
airfield at Yangphula, heliports, and other
infrastructure. [10] While these serve
India's strategic defence needs, it is also
an obvious economic benefit for the
people of Bhutan. [edit]Army aviation The
Royal Bhutan Army relies on Eastern Air
Command of the Indian Air Force for air
assistance. In recent years India has
helped Bhutan start to develop its military
in all areas through military donations and
training. [11] Indian Air Force helicopters
evacuated RBA casualties to India for
treatment during Operation All Clear in
2003

British India
Many cities in 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 the
most important cantonments in North
India after the headquarters at Rawalpindi.
Meerut was established in 1803 and was
for 150 years the biggest cantonment in
the region. While in the 18th and 19th
century cantonments in India were viewed
as semi-permanent, by the turn of the 20th
century they became permanent garrisons,
and were further entrenched as such via
the military reforms of Lord Kitchener in
1903 and the Cantonments Act of 1924.[4]

Ghana

Cantonments, Accra

India

There are 62 'notified Cantonments' in

India occupying an area of 1,57,000 acres:
25 in Central Command, 19 in Southern
Command, 13 in Western Command, 4 in
Eastern Command; and one in the
Northern Command.[5] In addition
15,96,000 acres is in use for military
garrisons, "quartering, camping, offices",
and training areas.[5] Major cantonments
and garrisons are:

Notified Cantonments

1. Agra Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh,

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

Unlisted Military Cantonments

1. Abohar Cantonment (Punjab)

2. Agartala Cantonment (Tripura)
3. Aizawl Cantonment (Mizoram)
4. Akhnoor Cantonment
5. Anand Parbat Cantonment (New Delhi)
6. Bangalore Cantonment
7. Bhuj Cantonment (Bhuj, Gujarat)
8. Bhopal Cantonment (Madhya Pradesh)
9. Bathinda Cantonment (Bathinda,
Punjab)
10. Bombay Cantonment (Mumbai,
Maharashtra)
11. Chandigarh Cantonment (Chandigarh)
12. Daman Cantonment (Daman and Diu )
13. Dum Dum Cantonment (Kolkata)
14. Fazilka Cantonment (Punjab)
15. Gandhinagar Cantonment
(Gandhinagar, Gujarat)
16. Gangtok Cantonment (Sikkim)
17. Gopalpur Cantonment (Brahmapur,
Orissa)
18. Guwahati Cantonment (Assam)
19. Hisar Cantt (Hisar, Haryana)
20. Itanagar Cantonment (Arunachal
Pradesh)
21. Imphal Cantonment (Manipur)
22. Jaipur Cantonment (Rajasthan)
23. Jodhpur Cantonment (Rajasthan)
24. Kavaratti Cantonment (Lakshadweep)
25. Kohima Cantonment (Nagaland)
26. Kollam Cantonment (Kerala)
27. Ludhiana Cantonment (Punjab)
28. Mamoon cantt (Punjab)
29. Mumbai Cantonment (Maharashtra)
30. Nagrota Cantonment, Jammu (Jammu
& Kashmir)
31. OEF Cantonment (Kanpur)
32. Panaji Cantonment (Goa)
33. Patiala Cantonment (Punjab)
34. Pondicherry Cantonment (Pondicherry)
35. PortBlair Cantonment (Andaman and
Nicobar Islands)
36. Raipur Cantonment (Chhattisgarh)
37. Ramgarh Cantonment
38. Ranchi Cantonment (Jharkhand)
39. Silvassa Cantonment (Dadra and
Nagar Haveli )
40. Shahjahanpur Cantonment
41. Surat cantonment (Surat, Gujarat)
42. Thiruvananthapuram Cantonment
(Kerala)
43. Udhampur Cantonment (Udhampur,
Jammu & Kashmir)
44. Unnao Cantonment (Kanpur, Uttar
Pradesh)
45. Vadodra Cantonment (Vadodra,
Gujarat)
46. Harsil Military Station (Harsil,
Uttarakhand)
47. Joshimath Cantonment (Joshimath,
Uttarakhand )
48. Pithoragarh Cantonment (Pithoragarh,
Uttarakhand)

Pakistan

Abbottabad Cantonment
Attock Cantonment
Bannu Cantonment
Bhawalpur Cantonment
Chaklala Cantonment
Clifton Cantonment, Karachi
Dera Ismail Khan Cantonment
Faisal Cantonment, Karachi
Faisalabad Cantonment
Gujranwala Cantonment
Hyderabad Cantonment
Jhelum Cantonment
Kamra Cantonment
Karachi Cantonment
Kharian Cantonment
Khuzdar Cantonment[6]
Korangi Creek Cantonment, Karachi
Lahore Cantonment[4]
Walton Cantonment: Created out of the
southern parts of the original Lahore
Cantt., Walton, Lahore[4]
Loralai Cantonment
Malir Cantonment, Karachi
Mangla Cantonment
Manora Cantonment, Karachi
Mardan Cantonment
Multan Cantonment
Murree Cantonment
Nowshera Cantonment
Okara Cantonment
Ormara Cantonment
Pano Aqil Cantonment
Peshawar Cantonment[7]
Quetta Cantonment
Rawalpindi Cantonment
Sanjwal Cantonment
Sargodha Cantonment
Shorkot Cantonment (PAF Rafiqui)
 Sialkot Cantonment
Taxila Cantonment
Wah Cantonment
Zhob Cantonment

Singapore

In Singapore, the term is used to denote a

Police Cantonment.[8]

Sri Lanka

Panagoda Cantonment

United States

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.[9]

See also
Cantonments (Pakistan)
Kaserne

References
1. Oxford English Dictionary cantonment