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Roorkee Cantonment is a cantonment town, in Roorkee, Haridwar district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, and is one of country's oldest cantonments established in 1853, and the headquarters of Bengal Engineer Group (Bengal Sappers) since 1853.[1]

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  1. 15 relations: Bengal Engineer Group, Cantonment, Census, Haridwar district, Hindi, India, Indian Standard Time, List of districts in India, Postal Index Number, Roorkee, States and union territories of India, The Imperial Gazetteer of India, The Tribune (India), Uttarakhand, Wikimapia.

  2. 1853 establishments in India
  3. Cities and towns in Haridwar district
  4. Roorkee

Bengal Engineer Group

The Bengal Engineer Group (BEG) (informally the Bengal Sappers or Bengal Engineers) is a military engineering regiment in the Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army.

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Cantonment

A cantonment is a military quarters.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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Haridwar district

Haridwar district also spelled as Hardwar is part of Uttarakhand, India.It lies in doab region where people speak khari boli.

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Hindi

Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Standard Time

Indian Standard Time (IST), sometimes also called India Standard Time, is the time zone observed throughout the Republic of India, with a time offset of UTC+05:30.

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List of districts in India

A district (zila), also known as revenue district is an administrative division of an Indian state or territory.

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Postal Index Number

A Postal Index Number (PIN; sometimes redundantly a PIN code) refers to a six-digit code in the Indian postal code system used by India Post.

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Roorkee

Roorkee (Rūṛkī) is a city and a municipal corporation in the Haridwar district of the state of Uttarakhand, India. Roorkee Cantonment and Roorkee are Cities and towns in Haridwar district.

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States and union territories of India

India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 entities.

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The Imperial Gazetteer of India

The Imperial Gazetteer of India was a gazetteer of the British Indian Empire, and is now a historical reference work.

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The Tribune (India)

The Tribune is an Indian English-language daily newspaper published from Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Bathinda, Chandigarh and Gurugram.

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Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand, formerly known as Uttaranchal (the official name until 2007), is a state in northern India.

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Wikimapia

Wikimapia (stylized as wikimapia) is a geographic online encyclopedia project.

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See also

1853 establishments in India

Cities and towns in Haridwar district

Roorkee

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roorkee_Cantonment