List of Cantonments in India

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. 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.
As of 2019, there were sixty-one "notified cantonments" in India, occupying an area of : 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

Central Command

Southern Command

Ahmedabad Cantonment, Gujarat
Ahmednagar Cantonment, Maharashtra
Ajmer Cantonment, Rajasthan
Aurangabad Cantonment, Maharashtra
Babina Cantonment, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh
Belgaum Cantonment, Karnataka
Bellary Cantonment, Karnataka
Dehu Road Cantonment, Maharashtra
Deolali Cantonment, Maharashtra
Jhansi Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh
Kamptee Cantonment, Maharashtra
Kannur Cantonment, Kerala
Kirkee Cantonment, Maharashtra
Morar Cantonment, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
Nasirabad Cantonment, Rajasthan
Pune Cantonment, Maharashtra
Sagar Cantonment, Madhya Pradesh
Secunderabad Cantonment, Telangana
St. Thomas Mount Cantonment, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Wellington Cantonment, Tamil Nadu

Western Command

Ambala Cantonment, Haryana
Amritsar Cantonment, Punjab
Bakloh Cantonment, Chamba District, Himachal Pradesh
Dagshai Cantonment, Himachal Pradesh
Dalhousie Cantonment, Himachal Pradesh
Delhi Cantonment, Delhi
Ferozepur Cantonment, Punjab
Jalandhar Cantonment, Punjab
Jammu Cantonment, Jammu and Kashmir
Jutogh Cantonment, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
Kasauli Cantonment, Himachal Pradesh
Subathu Cantonment, Shimla Hills, Himachal Pradesh
KhasYol Cantonment, Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh

Eastern Command

Northern Command

Badamibagh Cantonment, Jammu and Kashmir

Unlisted military cantonments

Abohar Cantonment
Akhnoor Cantonment
Baddowal Cantonment
Bangalore Cantonment
Bikaner Cantonment
Bharatpur Cantonment
Bhatinda Cantonment
Binnaguri Cantonment
Bhuj Cantonment
Bhopal Cantonment
Beas Military Station
Chandimandir Cantonment
Dipatoli Cantonment
Faridkot Cantonment
Fazilka Cantonment
Gandhinagar Cantonment
Gopalpur Cantonment
Hisar Cantonment
Itarana Cantonment
Jaipur Cantonment
Jaisalmer Cantonment
Jodhpur Cantonment
Joshimath Cantonment
Kapurthala Cantonment
Khasa Cantonment
Kollam Cantonment
Ludhiana Cantonment
Mamun Cantonment
Missamari Cantonment
Nagrota Cantonment
Narengi Cantonment
Pathankot Cantonment
Patiala Cantonment
Pithoragarh Cantonment
Shahjahanpur Cantonment
Solmara Cantonment
Sri Ganganagar Cantonment
Suratgarh Cantonment
Thiruvananthapuram Cantonment
Tibri Cantonment
Udhampur Cantonment
Udaipur Cantonment
Vadodara Cantonment
Varanasi Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh, Central Command
Siliguri Cantonment
Shillong Cantonment