Chakrata

Chakrata
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates:	30.69°N 77.86°E
Altitude:	2,118 m (6,949 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Chakrata
State/Province:	Uttarakhand
Country:	India
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Chakrata is located in the Dehra Dun District, between Mussoorie and Simla. It was established as a cantonment in 1866 and first occupied in 1869.

Kailana which is located nearby, was established at the same time as an Army Convalescent Depot. Its function may have changed changed, as circa 1891, "The troops here consist of two bodies of men. A whole regiment is quartered upon two hills known as Chakrata proper. On an adjacent hill, called Kailana, which is about two-and-a-half miles from Chakrata , some 750 men (small detachments from several regiments and batteries), known as "details" are located. The "details" generally march up some ten or twelve days later than the regiment".

Alternative spelling

Chakratta, Chakrauta, Chuckrata, Chhuckrowta

FIBIS resources

• Transcriptions of summary data from gravestones in Chakrata taken from IOR/R4/539 FIBIS database

External links

• Chakrata www.chakrata.in
• Chakrata Hill resorts of U.P. Himalaya: a geographical study, page 81 by Nutan Tyagi 1991 Google Books
• Photograph: the Church and camp at Chakrata by Gay 1870s-1890s bonhams.com
• Photograph: St Hugh’s Church, Chakrata 1917 Church of England. gettyimages.com
• gettyimages.com Garrison Church Chakrata 1917 gettyimages.com
• Postcard: Kailana Neck with troops, Chakrata. c.1928 Click to enlarge. glosters.org.uk
• From a collection of postcards at the ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, sent by F.G. Prew, a soldier, probably in the 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment to Adolf Feller of Switzerland.
  • Kailana Bazar post stamped 30.7.1928 with reverse side
  • Kailana, Siaha Rest Camp post stamped 23.10.1928 with reverse side

Historical books online

• "Chakrata Tahsil" and "Chakrata Town" Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 10, p. 125.
• "Special Reports With Reference To The Proposed New Site For Military Cantonments On The Pokree Range In The Himalaya Mountains, East Indies" by H. M. Fraser, M.D., Surgeon, 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade. Army Medical Department: Statistical, Sanitary and Medical Reports, Volume VII for the Year 1865. Presented to both Houses of Parliament
• Some details of the construction of the buildings for the Convalescent Depot at Kailana Report on the Administration of the N.-W. Provinces for the year 1867-68, page 130, 1868 Google Books
• "Modification of Standard Plan of Barracks for Married Soldiers in the Hills", page 109 Abstract of the proceedings of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, for the months of January, February, March and April 1870.
• "On the Cause of Enteric Fever in India" by H Skey Muir M. D. Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London: Volume 10, page 22 1891 Archive.org
• "Khud Climbing at Kailana" page 62 The Rifle Brigade Chronicle for 1902 (Thirteenth Year), published 1903 Archive.org. The 3rd Battalion Rifle Brigade
• "Chakrata" from Guide to Mussoorie with Notes on Adjacent Districts and Routes into the Interior, originally published 1907 by F Bodycote of the Mafasilite Printing Works Mussoorie, reprinted in the ‪The Doon Valley Across The Years‬ by Ganesh Saili Google Books