Dalhousie

Dalhousie
Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates:	32.53°N 75.98°E
Altitude:	1,954 metres (6,411 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Dalhousie
State/Province:	Himachal Pradesh
Country:	India
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Dalhousie was a hill station in Punjab, and the location of a cantonment. It was establised in 1854 and named after Lord Dalhousie, the Governor General of India at that time.

The cantonment

The cantonment was originally established as a convalescent Depot.

From a 1910 publication: "In 1866, it was determined that the barracks for the convalescent Depot should be built on the Balun plateau, below Terah,... and at the same time the Bakloh Hill ( 14 miles from Dalhousie, towards the plains ) was taken as a cantonment for the 4th Gurkas.
In 1868 troops were, for the first time, located at Balun. It was originally a depot under the Command of Military Officer appointed for two years, but during recent years a wing of a British Infantry Regiment from one of the stations in the Lahore Command has been quartered there under its own officers.
In addition to this wing at Balun, troops from the Lahore Command are quartered in barracks, recently erected, on the Tikka spur and Mankot, so that there are wings of three British Infantry Regiments quartered round Dalhousie; married families being accommodated in tents. Balun, as a convalescent depot, has ceased to exist."

Spelling variants

Balun, Baloon, Balloon
Mankote, Mankot, Mancote

Cantonment images

• Photograph: The Barracks-Dalhousie c.1860-1880 flickr.com
• Photograph: Balun, Dalhousie. 1890's flickr.com
• Photograph: Balun, Dalhousie. 1890's flickr.com
• Postcard: [Balun] Depot Dalhousie stamps-auction.com
• Postcard: General View of Balun Depot. Dalhousie.stamps-auction.com
• Postcard: Mankote from Kattlak, Dalhousie c 1910 photobucket.com
• Postcard: Mankote, Dalhousie c 1910 photobucket.com
• Postcard: Depot, Dalhousie c 1910 photobucket.com
• Postcard: The Depot, Dalhousie c 1910 photobucket.com
• Photograph: Mancote Barracks, Dalhousie c 1923-1938 flickr.com

FIBIS Resources

Images of Dalhousie

External links

• Dalhousie Wikipedia
• Dalhousie.net Timeline and Churches and Christianity
• Dalhousie Dalhousie1.com
• Churches and Cemeteries of Himchal Pradesh from Himachal Tourism mentions Dalhousie
• Dalhousie HPChamba.nic.in
• History Of The Sanitarium from dalhousievillas.com. It is likely that this history is taken from Guide to Dalhousie, Chamba and the Inner Mountains between Simla and Kashmir by J. B. Hutchinson 3rd edition 1910 (First edition 1872, 2nd edition 1898)
• Photos from TripAdvisor.in
• Photograph Album Volume 1 and Volume 2 include photographs of Dalhousie and two of Kudjea, possibly near Dalhousie (possibly Kaijar, mentioned below?). Photographs c 1870s from two albums owned by Edward Gilpin-Brown (1854-1904) who served as a Captain with the 92nd Gordon Highlanders from 1874 until 1884. Flickr.com Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, Canada
• Photograph: Kajiar (Khajjiar) near Dalhousie 1891. The tents may indicate a military camp. Flickr.com

Church images

• Photograph of St. John's Church, Dalhousie flickr.com
• Photograph c 1923-1938 of the Garrison Church. Dalhousie flickr.com
• Photograph of St Francis, Catholic Church, Dalhousie, 1895 flickr.com
• Photograph of St Francis Church Dalhousie. 1895. With Strawberry Bank House on the summit flickr.com
• St. Andrew's Church, Dalhousie Cantt – 1903 taken 2005 flickr.com
• Photograph of a Bell Tower/Church at Dalhousie flickr.com

Historical books online

• "Dalhousie" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 11, page 125.
• "Balun" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 6, page 343.
• "Dalhousie", page 48 The Highlands of India, Volume 1 by David John Falconer Newall 1882 Archive.org