Civil Lines

This article is about the term for residential areas. For other uses, see Civil Lines (disambiguation).

Civil Lines (archaically White Town) were the residential neighbourhoods developed during the British Raj for its senior civilian officers like Divisional commissioner and District magistrate. These townships were built all over the Indian subcontinent and were allotted to civil officers in the respective countries.[1] These are distinct from forts and cantonments, which were expressly military establishments.


These include:

  1. ^ Nayar, Pramod K. (2009). Days of the Raj: Life and Leisure in British India. Penguin Books India. p. 50. ISBN 9780143102809. Retrieved 23 January 2014.