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Dagshai — cantonment & jail museum (1847)

Dagshai — cantonment & jail museum (1847)

One of Indias oldest cantonments (East India Company, 1847) — the cellular jail museum where Gandhi ji stayed in 1920 and Irish mutineers of the Connaught Rangers were held; colonial church, quiet pine ridges; Kumarhatti–Dagshai station of the UNESCO railway below.

Best season
Oct–Jun
Timings
Museum 10 am – 5 pm
Entry fee
Nominal
from Solan
11.0 km

How to reach

Kumarhatti → Dagshai, 11 km.

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