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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=k3-j08QIKWUC&pg=PA118 Dagshai] page 118 ''Gazetteer of the Simla District 1904'' Google Books
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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. [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/1998-09/0904716348 Re: HURST] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 2 September 1998. Retrieved 9 June 2015</ref> [[Kasauli]] is the major town in the area.
==Spelling variants==
Dagshai, Dugshai, Dugshaie
==FIBIS Resources==
==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], 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>
*[http://himachaltourism.gov.in/post/Churches-and-cemeteries-of-Himachal-Pradesh.aspx Churches and Cemeteries of Himachal Pradesh] from Himachal Tourism has sections on Dagshai, [[Kasauli]] , and [[Subathu]], in addition to [[Simla]] and other towns
*[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
===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
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=k3-j08QIKWUC&pg=PA118 "Dagshai"] page 118 ''Gazetteer of the Simla District 1904'' Google Books
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