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28-578: Navy Nagar is a cantonment area in Mumbai , India , and was established in 1796. The area is owned and managed solely by the Indian Navy and entry to this area is highly restricted. Entry and exit points to the area are heavily manned by Naval Police. Navy Nagar is located at the extreme south promontory of Mumbai city, and is linked to it through the Colaba Causeway . Entry into Navy Nagar

56-404: A final torpedo at Kirpan , which Kirpan dodged before fleeing. Hangor then left the area. Hangor patrolled the region for the next four days before returning safely to her berth. Khukri is the only ship lost in combat in the history of the post-independence Indian Navy. Eighteen officers and 176 other sailors were killed. The captain, Mahendra Nath Mulla , was among the casualties and

84-491: 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

112-505: A steady course because she was testing an improved version of the 170/174 sonar, which required a low speed to increase detection, despite the fact that moving on low speed was against Indian anti-submarine doctrine. At 19:57 Hangor fired a homing torpedo on a sonar approach at Kirpan . The torpedo missed Kirpan and did not explode and was detected, causing Kirpan to turn away and fire multiple anti-submarine mortars, all of which also missed. Khukri increased its speed and turned towards

140-411: A sum of Rs. 200 per annum, a lease that was renewed in 1764. At that time, Colaba was well known for the variety of fish that were found in nearby waters, including bombil (the dried form of which is called " Bombay Duck "), rawas , halwa, turtles, crabs, prawns and lobsters. By 1796 Colaba became a cantonment for British troops . Gradually, troops began to build structures towards the southern end of

168-495: Is handled by the Naval Police and Military Police . The area is well maintained and has a large amount of greenery including an 18-hole golf course . The region today called Navy Nagar originally consisted of an uninhabited island called "Old Woman's Island" (a distorsion of its older native name "Al Omani"), mostly covered with forests. In 1743, the island of Colaba was leased to a British man called Richard Broughton at

196-512: Is provided in Bangladesh cantonments: 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

224-427: Is restricted as many important officials of the Indian Navy reside in the cantonment. It is Asia's largest naval armed forces personnel residential base. Navy Nagar houses the residences of Naval officers (also known as NOFRA) and sailors. Navy Nagar is divided into two different sections. Section one consists of "old navy nagar" and consists of smaller (generally five or lesser storied) buildings that were built up to

252-599: Is therefore the only Indian captain to go down with a vessel. He was posthumously awarded India's second-highest military honour, the Maha Vir Chakra . There is a memorial to the sailors in Diu . The memorial consists of a scale model of Khukri encased in a glass house, placed atop a hillock facing the sea. The memorial was inaugurated by Vice Admiral Madhvendra Singh as the flag officer commanding-in-chief. Responsibility for errors by Indian naval officers related to

280-552: The Western naval command , construction of sailors quarters in the vicinity of a market for defence personnel ( Sumitra market ) and the building of accommodations for bachelors, a mess for officers ( Command mess ), a sports stadium and swimming pool (Kohli stadium), accommodations for the survivors of the naval ship INS  Khukri (Khukri house) and the setting up of the TIFR . In the 1970s, A large circular canteen ( INCS Canteen )

308-542: The 1980s. "New navy nagar" consists of taller (14 storied) buildings, though a few older existing buildings are also included in it. The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research carries out research in higher sciences and the Indian Meteorological Department office (built in 1826) of Colaba are also located in Navy nagar. Navy Nagar is maintained by the Indian Navy , law and order in the area

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336-770: The area are Churchgate Station and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Station . Cantonment 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

364-476: The beginning of hostilities on 3 December 1971, Indian Naval radio detection equipment identified a submarine lurking about 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Diu harbour. The 14th Frigate Squadron of the Western Fleet was dispatched to destroy the submarine. It usually consisted of five ships, Khukri , Kirpan , Kalveti, Krishna and Kuthar, but at the time of the incident Kuthar ' s boiler room

392-545: The control of the defence. During the subsequent construction of Colaba, a large network of bungalows called the "Sick Bungalows" (today INHS Aswini) were built. The church today known as Afghan Church (after the First Afghan War of 1838) was consecrated in 1858 and work on the steeple was concluded in 1865. Horse-drawn tram-cars operated by Stearns and Kitteredge (whose offices are today's "Electric House") provided transport to this new developed area. Afghan Church

420-501: The edges of the island, towards an area to the north of today's "New Navy Nagar". Meanwhile, structures and bungalows continued to be built sporadically in Navy Nagar to house members of the troops. In 1926, a motor bus route was introduced between Afghan church, located at the fringes of Navy Nagar and Crawford market . Navy Nagar truly started to be developed in the 1960s with the laying out of neat well planned roads, setting up of

448-532: The growing numbers of officers, beginning with buildings called Swati , Meena and Bharani . All through, large open spaces with gardens were provided alongside these buildings. The area is well connected by the public transport of B.E.S.T buses . Bus No 3 serves routes between Navy Nagar and JIJAMATA UDYAN . Bus No 11LTD serves routes between Navy Nagar and BANDRA COLONY BUS STATION. Bus No 125 serves routes between Navy Nagar and WORLI VILLAGE. Bus No 137 starts and ends at Navy Nagar. The nearest railway stations to

476-555: The island, then called "Upper Colaba", and a meteorological observatory (today known as Colaba Observatory ) was established in 1826. With the completion of the Colaba Causeway in 1838, these remaining two islands were joined to the rest of Mumbai. While Colaba became a centre of commerce with the opening of the Cotton Exchange at Cotton Green in 1844, the southern part of the island continued to remain mostly under

504-1046: 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 km ). As of 2019, there were sixty-one "notified cantonments" in India, occupying an area of 157,000 acres (640 km ): 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,

532-553: 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

560-687: 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

588-484: 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: Babina cantonments* Cantonments, Accra Cantonments in Nigeria refer to permanent military installations which house active personnel and their families. Cantonments in Nigeria include: In Singapore,

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616-655: The south of Brussels. 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), is now maintained as a British Army cemetery. In Bangladesh, cantonments are residential quarters for many military personnel as well as headquarters for different army units. A wide variety of military training

644-544: The submarine, which then fired a second torpedo directed at Khukri . The torpedo struck Khukri and exploded under its oil tanks. According to the Pakistani submarine captain, Commander Ahmed Tasnim , the ship sank within two minutes. Other sources claim that Khukri was struck by three torpedoes before going down. After a few minutes, Kirpan attacked Hangor with depth charges, as her anti-submarine mortars were no longer functional. All missed. Hangor then fired

672-426: The term is used to denote a police cantonment. 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. INS Khukri (F149) INS Khukri

700-622: Was a Type 14 ( Blackwood -class) frigate of the Indian Navy . She was sunk off the coast of Diu , Gujarat , India by the Pakistan Navy Daphné -class submarine Hangor on 9 December 1971 during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 . It was the first warship sunk in action by a submarine since World War II . It is the post-independence Indian navy's only warship to have been lost in war. [REDACTED]   Pakistan [REDACTED]   India After

728-547: Was also built around this time, making it one of the earliest structures built in the area. The spire of the church was often used by sailors to get their bearing. Prong's Lighthouse , located at the southern tip of the island, was constructed in 1875, in the same year as Sassoon Docks were built by David Sassoon on reclaimed land to the north of Navy Nagar. The development of a railway terminus (BB&CI Railways) in Colaba and land reclamation pushed existing indigenous kolis to

756-512: Was being repaired in Bombay. One reason that may have prompted the decision to deploy two obsolete Blackwood -class frigates against a modern Daphne -class submarine was that the Indian Navy lacked sufficient numbers of anti-submarine aircraft. The submarine sighted the squadron on the evening of 9 December. Khukri was still not aware of the submarine's presence and continued slowly on

784-433: Was built for defence personnel along with residences for petty officers (buildings "A" to "K"), residences for officers (buildings "L" to "Z") and a school for their children ( Kendriya Vidyalaya 1). Two cinemas were built specially for defence personnel - an open-air cinema for sailors (called " The Ground ") and an enclosed cinema (called " Defence cinema "). In 1979, multi storied buildings were constructed to accommodate

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