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*[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120923/spectrum/main8.htm The dark secret of Dagshai] by Malvika K. Singh Sunday, 23 September 2012 www.tribuneindia.com "The little-known cantonment town has a cellular jail and museum..."  
*[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120923/spectrum/main8.htm The dark secret of Dagshai] by Malvika K. Singh Sunday, 23 September 2012 www.tribuneindia.com "The little-known cantonment town has a cellular jail and museum..."  
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/india-old-postcard-dagshai-panorama-of-married-quarters-for-sale-61792  Postcard: Dagshai. Married Quarters] stamps-auction.com
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/india-old-postcard-dagshai-panorama-of-married-quarters-for-sale-61792  Postcard: Dagshai. Married Quarters] stamps-auction.com
*[http://www.calkin.co.uk/arthur_dagshi2_1913.html Photograph: Arthur Calkin in Dagshai, India 1913], with a group of soldiers outside their barracks, with their dogs and a cat. They were in the 4th Battalion, [[The Rifle Brigade]].  Family website.
*[http://kssarkaria.org/docs/Dagshai.pdf "The Forgotten Shaheeds of Dagshai"] by K S Sarkaria. Contains mention of the Prison, the Gallows and the Boer Prisoner of War Camp, where there were about 290 prisoners. There is also a photograph of Dagshai taken by  one of the Boer POWs,  C. Lonn
*[http://kssarkaria.org/docs/Dagshai.pdf "The Forgotten Shaheeds of Dagshai"] by K S Sarkaria. Contains mention of the Prison, the Gallows and the Boer Prisoner of War Camp, where there were about 290 prisoners. There is also a photograph of Dagshai taken by  one of the Boer POWs,  C. Lonn



Revision as of 06:57, 9 June 2015

Dagshai
Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 30.88°N 77.05°E
Altitude: 1,734 m (5,689 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Dagshai
State/Province: Himachal Pradesh
Country: India
Transport links
Kalka-Simla Railway

Dagshai is a hill station founded in 1847 by the East India Company after it acquired the land from the Maharaja of Patiala along with the villages of Dabbi, Bughtiala, Chunawag and Jawag. [1].

A cantonment was located there.

Dagshai together with Kasauli and Subathu, were hill depots created by the British Army in the mid-19th c for the families and some of the troops to escape to in the hot weather which was so unhealthy in the plains. They are on the ridges of wooded hills about 20 kms into the Himalayas on the road between Chandigarh and Simla.[2] Kasauli is the major town in the area.

Spelling variants

Dagshai, Dugshai, Dugshaie

FIBIS Resources

Churches

  • St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church

Cemeteries

  • St Patrick's Roman Catholic Cemetery (For link to details of memorials see FIBIS Resources above)

External links

Historical books online

  • "Dugshai" page 156 A Guide to Simla: With a Descriptive Account of the Neighbouring Sanitaria, Subathoo, Dugshaie, Sunawur, Kussowlie, Kotegurh, Chini, &c., &c., &c‬ by W H Carey 1870 Google Books
  • "Dagshai" page 118 Gazetteer of the Simla District 1904 Google Books

References

  1. A neglected reminder of the Raj By Romesh Dutt
  2. Kennedy, David. Re: HURST Rootsweb India Mailing List 2 September 1998. Retrieved 9 June 2015
  3. By email dated 20 June 2013 to User:Maureene