Kasauli

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Kasauli

Hill station and cantonment in the Punjab, situated in 30° 53' N. and 76 degree 58' E., entirely surrounded by Native States, but attached for administrative purposes to the Kharar tahsil of Ambala District. It stands on the summit of the long ridge overlooking Kalka, at an elevation of 6,335 feet above the sea, and nearly 4,000 feet above Kalka, from which it is distant about 9 miles. Population (1901), 2,192. Kasauli was founded in 1842 as a military station, and now serves as a convalescent depot. It has during the summer months a considerable civil population, for whose accommodation hotels have been built. Owing, however, to its nearness to the plains, it is the least attractive in climate of the Punjab hill stations.

The management of the station is in the hands of a Cantonment Magistrate assisted by a cantonment committee ; the Cantonment Magistrate proceeds on tour for ten days in each month of the hot season, and is relieved of the charge of the treasury by the Assistant Commissioner in charge of the Rupar sub- division. The Deputy-Commissioner of Ambala also resides at Kasauli during part of the hot season. There is an Anglo-vernacular middle school. The Lawrence Military Asylum at Sanawar is 3 miles away, in a portion of territory attached to Simla District. The income and expenditure of cantonment funds during the ten years ending 1902 3 averaged Rs. 13,000.

The Pasteur Institute at Kasauli was established in 1901 for the treatment of persons bitten by rabid animals, and now treats patients from all parts of Northern India. In 1906 a central Research Institute was founded, which will provide means for the scientific study of the etiology and nature of disease in India, in addition to the preparation of curative sera for the diseases of man and the training of scientifie workers. The institution is in eharge of a Director, with a staff of assistants. Kasauli is also the head-quarters of the Punjab Nursing Association, and eontains a dispensary. There is a brewer)- in the neighbourhood.