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**''Historical and Statistical Memoir of Dehra Doon'' by G R C Williams. 1874 [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/260543  Pdf download],  with additional files available.
**''Historical and Statistical Memoir of Dehra Doon'' by G R C Williams. 1874 [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/260543  Pdf download],  with additional files available.
**''Dehra Dun Past and Present with a Complete Historical, Geographical and Administrative Guide and Directory to Dehra and the Doon District'' by Capt OES Power 1929  [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/7179 Pdf download]
**''Dehra Dun Past and Present with a Complete Historical, Geographical and Administrative Guide and Directory to Dehra and the Doon District'' by Capt OES Power 1929  [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/7179 Pdf download]
*''Guide to Mussoorie, Landour, Chakrata and Dehra Dun, etc'' by Robert  Hawthorne published at Mussoorie  by Beacon Press 1890 is available to download as a pdf  from [[Online books#Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset|Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]], located under Books, Indian Subcontinent 1890 under the title ''The Beacon’s Guide to Mussoorie''.
*[https://archive.org/details/jstor-1797684 "Journey Through the Himma-leh Mountains to the Sources of the River Jumna, and Thence to the Confines of Chinese Tartary: Performed in April-October, 1827"] by Captain C. Johnson, Late of the 11th Dragoons. from ''Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London'', Volume 4,1834. With a Map. Archive.org.  Deyrah Dhoon is mentioned in the first pages of the article.
*[https://archive.org/details/jstor-1797684 "Journey Through the Himma-leh Mountains to the Sources of the River Jumna, and Thence to the Confines of Chinese Tartary: Performed in April-October, 1827"] by Captain C. Johnson, Late of the 11th Dragoons. from ''Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London'', Volume 4,1834. With a Map. Archive.org.  Deyrah Dhoon is mentioned in the first pages of the article.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=h05FAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3 Deyrah] page 3 ''A Summer Ramble in the Himalayas: With Sporting Adventures in the Vale of Cashmere‬'' Edited by Mountaineer [Frederick Wilson] 1860 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=h05FAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3 Deyrah] page 3 ''A Summer Ramble in the Himalayas: With Sporting Adventures in the Vale of Cashmere‬'' Edited by Mountaineer [Frederick Wilson] 1860 Google Books

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Dehra Dun
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 30°20′N 78°04′E
Altitude: 399 m (1,309 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Dehradun
State/Province: Uttarakhand
Country: India
Transport links
Hardwar-Dehra Railway

For the town in Himachal Pradesh, see Dehra.

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places of interest during the British period
[xxxxx Dehra Dun]



Dehra Dun was the headquarters of Dehra Dun District in the Meerut Division of United Provinces during the British period. It is the present day state capital of Uttarakhand. The city is often referred to simply as Dehra. The cantonment Clement Town is adjacent.

"Dehra lies on the road connecting Mussooree with the plains and is 42 miles from Saharanpur, the same from Rurki and 14 miles from Mussooree"[1]

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Dehra Dun
Variants: Deyrah Dhoon/Dehra Doon/Dehra/Dehradun

Churches

  • St Francis Catholic Church
  • St Thomas Church built 1840 (Well known singer Cliff Richard was christened here in 1940) [2]
  • St George's Church
  • Morrison Memorial church (Presbyterian)
  • St John the Evangelist Church (Methodist)
  • Reformed Presbyterian Church

Railways

Dehra Dun was the terminus of the Hardwar-Dehra Railway.

Education

The schools article lists a number of Dehra institutions.

Volunteer Regiment

Cemeteries

A BACSA (British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia) cemetery publication is

  • Dehra Dun - Chandranagar Cemetery by Aylmer Jean Galsworthy, 1993. Inscriptions and biographical notes: graves listed by year of death (1820-1912), and endowments (1888-1951). Also lists of army personnel, civilians, stonemasons, etc. 144pp, 20 illustrations and plans. See BACSA Books.

BACSA are in the process of putting the indexes to its cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.

External links

Historical books online

References

  1. Himalayan Gazetteer Volume 3, Part 1, actual page 189, computer page 202
  2. Doon Churches Tell a Tale tribuneindia.com