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There were military cantonments at Jalapahar (established 1848), Darjeeling and at Lebong, situated below Darjeeling about eight miles away.
Lebong cantonment was established in 1882 as part of the Jalapahar cantonment, and became a separate cantonment in 1895.<ref>[http://www.darjeelingtimes.com/news/news/Discursive-Hills-Book-Review-.html Dr. Wangyal's Column : Discursive Hills] 1 November 2008 Darjeelingtimes.com</ref>There were artillery barracks at Katapahar, above Darjeeling and it appears that this was what was called the Darjeeling cantonment. The Darjeeling cantonment may have at times also included Jalapahar, which was a convalescent depot.
== Records ==
== External Links ==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darjeeling Darjeeling] Wikipedia*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalapahar Jalapahar]Wikipedia* [http://www.koi-hai.com/darjeeling.html Darjeeling] from the website Koi-Hai* [http://darjeelingnews.net/darjeeling_tea.html Darjeeling Tea History]* [http://www.pbase.com/mgpimages/image/49777822 Photograph] of a tea plantation, Darjeeling.* Photos of Darjeeling from [http://oldindianphotos.blogspot.com/search/label/Darjeeling Old Indian Photos]
*[http://www.ratnapradhan.com/das-studio/das-archives/ Old photographs of Darjeeling from the Das Studio Photo Archives] from Ratna D Pradhan’s Himalayan Light: Images of the Himalayas
*[http://www.oldmhs.com/ Old Mount Hermon Students' Association (UK)]
===Online books===
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V11_184.gif "Darjeeling Town"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 11'', page 178
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/newmansguidetod00publgoog#page/n10/mode/1up ''Newman's Guide to Darjeeling and Its Surroundings, Historical & Descriptive''] 1900 Archive.org
*[http://www.vsdh.org/vsdh/dhr_book/ ''Darjeeling & its Mountain Railway: A Guide and Souvenir published by the Darjeeling-Himalayan Railway Co. Ld.''] 1921 vsdh.org
**[http://www.vsdh.org/vsdh/dhr_book/chap_6.htm Chapter 6 "Suburbs of Darjeeling"] includes details about the cantonments at Lebong, Jalapahar and Katapahar (although confusingly the latter is also called Jalapahar)
*''History Of The Darjeeling District'' by E C Dozey 1917 is available to read online on the Digital Library of India website. Refer [[Online books#Digital Library of India|Online books-Digital Library of India]] for more details about this site. A chapter on schools commences computer page 99, and a chapter on cemeteries, with details of some burials, commences computer page 140. Note some pages appear to be missing. A revised 2nd edition, published c 1922 and titled ''A Concise History of the Darjeeling District'' by E C Dozey is also available to read online on the Digital Library of India website. The chapter on cemeteries commences actual page 146, computer page 189.
*''The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj'' by Dane Kennedy, 1996 [http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft396nb1sf&brand=ucpress University of California Press]
