DAGSHAI
Above: A postcard focusing on the married quarters in Dagshai, a hilly cantonment founded in 1847 in northern India by the East India Company.
TRIMULGHERRY
Above: A pre-World War II snapshot of the married quarters in Laswarrie Road, in Trimulgherry, or Tirumalagiri, a suburb of Secunderabad, which is in turn today part of Hyderabad city. Secunderabad, which is situated in the south-eastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, was once home to one of the largest concentrations of British troops in India; Trimulgherry was a cantonment area.
