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.
JULLUNDUR
Above: The postcard reproduced above is captioned 'Parade Ground, Showing Married quarters – Jullundur'. Today called Jalandhar, the city of Jullundur is located in the north-west Indian state of Punjab, and the cantonment that was constructed by the British there dates from the mid-nineteenth century.
PESHAWAR
Above: This colourful image was produced as a postcard and is labelled 'Soldiers' Married Quarters, Peshawar'. It dates from around 1910, when Peshawar was part of British India. Situated at the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, Peshawar is the capital of the North-West Frontier Province, and today belongs to Pakistan.
RANIKHET
Above: The caption printed on the postcard above reads: 'Married Quarters & Half noon Barracks in snow, Ranikhet'. The British established a cantonment at Ranikhet, an Indian hill station in the Kumaon Hills, in 1869 as a summer retreat for their soldiers. Ranikhet is today situated within the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand (previously, it was part of Uttar Pradesh and, before that, of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh).
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.
