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*[http://himalayanpictures.blogspot.co.uk/#!/2012/08/dagshai-mughal-time-village-with.html Dagshai - A Mughal time Village with British Cemeteries] 31st August 2012 Sumit Raj Vashisht’s himalayanpictures.blogspot.co.uk
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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.<ref>Kennedy, David. [https://listsweb.rootswebarchive.comorg/web/20200927000524/hyperkittyhttps:/list/indiamlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india&thread/=15659804/ Re: HURST] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 2 September 1998. [Accessed 16 June 2019], now archived.</ref> [[Kasauli]] is the major town in the area.
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*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=1787&s_id=1004&sort=0&st=0&np=6&tn=156 Transcriptions and images of graves at Dagshai Roman Catholic Cemetery] Fibis database
== Churches==
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagshai Dagshai] Wikipedia
*[http://www.gravestonephotos.com/newsitems/St_Patrick.doc St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, Dagshai], (a download to your computer which you may need to locate in the downloads folder), part of the Catholic Diocese of Shimla-Chandigarh, a volunteer news item from the [http://www.gravestonephotos.com/ Gravestone Photographic Resource]. A researcher advised he was able to obtain a copy of a record from the baptismal register of this church, in respect of a relative born 1917, from the parish priest.<ref>By email dated 20 June 2013 to User:Maureene</ref>
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140703163042/http://himachaltourism.gov.in/post/Churches-and-cemeteries-of-Himachal-Pradesh.aspx Churches and Cemeteries of Himachal Pradesh], now an archived webpage, from Himachal Tourism has sections on Dagshai, [[Kasauli]] and [[Subathu]] , in addition to [[Simla]] and other towns.
*[http://hillpost.in/2007/11/a-piece-of-love-falls-prey-to-superstition-in-himachal/3562 A piece of love falls prey to superstition] by Jagmeet Y. Ghuman November 14, 2007 Hill Post. About Dagshai Cemetery
*[http://www.tribuneindia.com/1998/98oct17/saturday/head5.htm#1 Dagshai of yore and now] by Maniki Deep Saturday 17 October 1998 tribuneindia.com
*[http://www.tribuneindia.com/1999/99feb06/saturday/regional.htm A neglected reminder of the Raj] by Romesh Dutt 6 February 1999 tribuneindia.com
*[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..."
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagshai_Central_Jail_%26_Museum Dagshai Central Jail & Museum] Wikipedia
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMH8KelYxDU A Visit to Dagshai Jail Museum] YouTube video.
*[https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/travel/6903-time-stands-still-little-hamlet-situated-heart-himalayas "Time stands still in this little hamlet situated in the heart of the Himalayas"] by Chitvan Singh Dhillon October 15, 2016. ''SundayGuardianLive''
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/india-old-postcard-dagshai-panorama-of-married-quarters-for-sale-61792 Postcard: Dagshai. Married Quarters] stamps-auction.com
*[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
===Historical books online===
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dpFeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA156 "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
*[httphttps://booksarchive.googleorg/details/gazetteer-simla-1904/page/118/mode/1up "Dagshai"] page 118 ''Punjab District Gazetteers Volume VIII A.comSimla District 1904'' Archive.org*[https://archive.auorg/books?id=k3details/jramc-j08QIKWUC&pg=PA118 1925-vol44vol45/page/129/mode/2up "Dagshai, Simla Hills"] by Major J E M Boyd RAMC page 118 129 ''Gazetteer Journal of the Simla District 1904Royal Army Medical Corps'' Google Books, Volume 44 Jan.-June 1925. Archive.org
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