Dagshai

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?APS Dagshai Himachal Pradesh • India
APS Dagshai
Coordinates: 30°53′N 77°03′E / 30.88, 77.05
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
Area • Elevation	• 1,734 m (5,689 ft)
District(s)	Solan
Population	2,751 (2001)

Coordinates: 30°53′N 77°03′E / 30.88, 77.05 APS Dagshai is a school in dagshai cantonment town in Solan district in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India.

1 Details
2 Irish soldiers' mutiny, 1920
3 Geography
4 Demographics
5 Residential Schools
6 References

[edit] Details

Built by the British as a sanatorium for T.B patients, it has a British era graveyard overlooking a valley. It is on the same height as Lawrence School Sanawar near Kasauli, and is a short drive from Dharampur on the Chandigarh Simla highway. It is some 65 kilometers from Chandigarh. Unlike Kasauli it is to the right of the highway while driving towards Simla. There are two roads up, both steep. And after snow , snow chains are a must to drive up to Dagshai or getting down from it. There is an army unit stationed there, a residential only Army Public School, Dagshai and a private school called Dagshai Public School. There is a very small civilian town and the two schools take up most of this hill top station. There are no hotels in Dagshai but the place has a lot of picnic spots with grand views. From some spots one can see the entire Panchkula and Chandigarh lights at night. Also one is able to see Timber Trail Heights and Timber Trail Resorts, Parwanoo There is a railway station on the Kalka Simla line at Kumar Hatti from where Dagshai is about 1.5 kilometers uphill The next towns in the direction towards Simla are Barog and Solan. Solan is some 11 k.m from Kumar Hatti by road and dagshai is some what 3 km away from kumarhatti. From Kumar Hatti there is also a road to Sarahan and Nahan.

[edit] Irish soldiers' mutiny, 1920

Following a large scale mutiny of Irish soldiers in the British service at 1920, in support of the independence struggle then unfolding in their homeland, dozens of mutineers were incarcerated at Dagshai Prison. On November 2, 1920, mutineer leader James Daly - a 21 year old private - was shot by a firing squad in the prison courtyard, the last member of the British Forces to be executed for mutiny. He was buried at the Dagshai graveyard until 1970, when his remains were repatriated to Ireland and given a funeral with full military honours (See The Connaught Rangers#Mutiny in India, 1920).

[edit] Geography

APS Dagshai is located at 30.88° N 77.05° E^[1]. It has an average elevation of 1734 metres (5688 feet).

[edit] Demographics

As of 2001 India census^[2], Dagshai had a population of 2751. Males constitute 62% of the population and females 38%. Dagshai has an average literacy rate of 82%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 88% and, female literacy is 73%. In Dagshai, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.