Dagshai

Key facts

Settlement.name: Dagshai
Settlement.other_name: Dagshai & Kumarhatti
Settlement.settlement_type: town
Settlement.image_skyline: Kumarhatti Dagshai Railway Station.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Kumarhatti Dagshai Railway Station
Settlement.pushpin_map: India Himachal Pradesh#India
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: right
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Himachal Pradesh, India
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: State
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Himachal Pradesh
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Solan
Settlement.unit_pref: Metric
Settlement.elevation_m: 1734
Settlement.population_total: 2904
Settlement.population_as_of: 2011
Settlement.population_density_km2: auto

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Wikidata facts

Area: 3.31
Elevation: 1734
Image: Kumarhatti Dagshai Railway Station.jpg
Dialing code: 1793

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postal code: 173210
Commons category: Dagshai

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Overview
Dagshai Central Jail & Jail Museum
Irish soldiers' mutiny, 1920
Geography
Demographics
Religion (2011)
Residential schools
References

Dagshai, also known as Daagh-e-Shahi, is one of the oldest cantonment towns in the Solan district of Himachal Pradesh, India. It is situated on top of a 5,689-foot (1,734-m) high hillock that stands sphinx-like astride the Kalka-Shimla Highway at a point about 11 km from Solan. It was founded in 1847 by the East India Company by securing free of cost five villages from Maharaja of Patiala aka Bhupinder Singh of Patiala. The names of these villages were Dabbi, Badhtiala, Chunawad, Jawag and Dagshai. The new cantonment was named after the last named village, as it was the largest and most strategically located. The name Dagshai, according to a popular local legend was derived from Daagh-e-Shahi. During the Moghul times a Daagh-e-Shahi (royal mark) was put on the forehead of the criminals and sent packing to the then Dagshai village. thumb|Dagshai army barracks and parade ground circa 1918; now schools and playing fields

==Overview==