Ramgarh Cantonment
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| State : | Jharkhand | ||
| District : | Ramgarh | ||
| Location : | 23 ° 37 ′ N , 85 ° 29 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 88,781 (2011) | ||
Ramgarh Cantonment ( Hindi : रामगढ़ छावनी Rāmgaṛh Chavnī [ ˈraːmɡʌɽʱ ˈtʃʰʌʋni ]) is a garrison town ( cantonment ) in the Indian state of Jharkhand . It has almost 90,000 inhabitants (2011 census) and is the administrative seat of the Ramgarh district .
geography
Ramgarh Cantonment is located on the Damodar River and is easily accessible by rail and the NH 33 national road due to the coal mines in the immediate vicinity. Today (2012) two regiments of the Indian Army are stationed in the actual cantonment .
history
The area of today's Ramgarh Cantonment was part of the rulership of the Rajas of Chota Nagpur in the Middle Ages . After 1368 a military leader renounced his old rule and became Raja of Ramgarh . Even under British rule, the principality continued to exist until it became part of the Indian Union in 1947.
When it was first established as a cantonment with barracks and residential quarters, the base also attracted civilians who settled outside of the areas designated for the military.
During the Second World War there was temporarily an internment camp for hostile foreigners . Some of the wives of British or Indian men, members of mission stations or gurus of German descent residing in India as well as German Jews were established here.
Between 1942 and 1944, 53,000 Chinese troops underwent training at Ramgarh Cantonment. This so-called X-Force was brought to Ramgarh at the expense of the Allies and was initially composed of scattered members of Chinese troops who had withdrawn from Burma in 1942 before the advancing Japanese into Assam , India . Later conscripts from China were also flown across the Himalayas to Assam and taken to Ramgarh by rail. In addition to their military training, they also received material, clothing, food and pay from the Allies there. The first training course began on August 3, 1942. In the reconquest of Burma in 1944 and 1945, the Chinese soldiers trained in Ramgarh played an important role.
Since 2007 Ramgarh Cantonment has been the administrative seat of the Ramgarh district.
literature
- Michael Schaller: The US Crusade in China, 1938–1945 . Columbia University Press, New York 1979, ISBN 0-231-04454-2 .