Dagshai

Dagshai
Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates:	30.88°N 77.05°E
Altitude:	1,734 m (5,689 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Dagshai
State/Province:	Himachal Pradesh
Country:	India
Transport links
Kalka-Simla Railway

Dagshai is a hill station founded in 1847 by the East India Company after it acquired the land from the Maharaja of Patiala along with the villages of Dabbi, Bughtiala, Chunawag and Jawag. .

A cantonment was located there.

External links

• Dagshai Wikipedia
• Dagshai page 118 Gazetteer of the Simla District 1904 Google Books
• St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, Dagshai, part of the Catholic Diocese of Shimla-Chandigarh, a volunteer news item from the 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.
• Churches and Cemeteries of Himachal Pradesh from Himachal Tourism has sections on Dagshai, Kasauli , and Subathu, in addition to Simla and other towns
• A piece of love falls prey to superstition by Jagmeet Y. Ghuman November 14, 2007 Hill Post. About Dagshai Cemetery
• Dagshai of yore and now by Maniki Deep Saturday 17 October 1998 tribuneindia.com
• A neglected reminder of the Raj by Romesh Dutt 6 February 1999 tribuneindia.com
• Dagshai - A Mughal time Village with British Cemeteries 31st August 2012 Sumit Raj Vashisht’s himalayanpictures.blogspot.co.uk
• 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..."
• Postcard: Dagshai. Married Quarters stamps-auction.com
• 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.
• "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