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'''Kasauli''' is a small town in the foot hills of the Himalayas. This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/1998-09/0904716348 post] advises that Kasauli, together with [[Dagshai]] and [[Subathu]] is one of a number of hill depots created by theBritish army in the mid-19th century for the families and some of the troops to escape to in the hot weather which was so unhealthy in the plains. <ref>Kennedy, David. [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/1998-09/0904716348 Re: HURST] Rootsweb India Mailing List 2 September 1998. Retrieved 9 June 2015</ref> Up to at least 1870 it was used as a convalescent depot <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ffcIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA373 page 373], ''Abstract of the proceedings of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, for the months of January, February, March and April 1870'' Google Books</ref>
The town sits on the ridge of a wooded hill on the road between [[Chandigarh]] and [[Simla]]. Nearby towns include [[Dagshai]], [[Subathu]] and [[Kalka]].
The [[Lawrence Military Asylum]], now the Lawrence School is situated in nearby [[Sanawar]].
==Institutions==
The Pasteur Institute, for treatment of rabies, and the Central Research Institute, for research into tropical diseases, were opened at Kasauli in July 1900. In 1905 the control of the institutes was separated, but combined again in 1911. <ref> ''[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2300847/?page=1 British Medical Journal]'' 7 February 1914 [Accessed 13 June 2011]</ref>
==External links==
*[http://www.slideshare.net/AmitRanjan/pictures-from-kasauli-hill-station-in-himachal-pradesh-presentation Pictures from Kasauli - hill station in Himachal Pradesh] Photos from slideshare.net . Photo no. 42 shows the location of nearby towns in relation to Kasauli
*[http://www.tribuneindia.com/1998/98dec26/saturday/regional.htm "Kasauli: A tourist resort with unrealised potential"] by Ankur Bansal ''The Tribune'' Saturday, 26 December 1998
===Historical books online===
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dpFeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA157 "Kussowlie"] page 157 ''A Guide to Simla: With a Descriptive Account of the Neighbouring Sanitaria, Subathoo, Dugshaie, Sunawur, Kussowlie, Kotegurh, Chini, &c., &c., &cā¬'' by W H Carey 1870 Google Books
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