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KAMPTEE, or KAMTHI

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 647 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KAMPTEE, or KAMTHI , a See also:town of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Nagpur See also:district of the Central Provinces, just below the confluence of the Kanhan with the See also:rivers Pench and See also:Kolar; to m. N.E. of Nagpur by See also:rail. Pop. (1901), 38,888, showing a continuous decrease since 1881. Kamptee was founded in 1821, as a military See also:cantonment in the neighbourhood of the native See also:capital of Nagpur, and became an important centre of See also:trade. Since the opening of the railway, trade has largely been diverted to Nagpur, and the See also:garrison has recently been reduced. The town is well laid out with wide roads, gardens and tanks.

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