KAMTHÍ, or Kamptee, a large town and cantonment in Nâgpur district, Central Provinces, India, 21° 13' 30" N. lat., 79° 14' 30" E. long. Population (1877), 48,831. Considerable trade is carried on here in cattle, country cloth, salt, European piece goods, and timber. The town contains a large market-place, a dispensary, schools, travellers’ rest-houses, a Protestant and a Roman Catholic church, five Mahometan mosques, and seventy Hindu temples. An extensive parade ground separates the cantonment from the town, which is built in broad and regular streets.