Ramgarh Cantonment

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Ramgarh Cantonment (Hindi: रामगढ़ छावनी Ramgarh Chavnī [ ra ː tʃ ʰ mɡʌɽ ʱ ʌʋni ] ) is a garrison town ( cantonment ) in the Indian state of Jharkhand. It has 73 455 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) and is the administrative seat of the district of Ramgarh.

Geography

Ramgarh Cantonment is on the river Damodar and is well developed railways and the national highway NH 33 due to the coal mines in the immediate vicinity. In the actual Cantonment (2012 ), two regiments of the Indian Army are stationed today.

History

The area of present-day Ramgarh Cantonment was in the Middle Ages, part of the dominions of the Raja of Chota Nagpur. After 1368, a military leader of his old dominion seceded and became Raja of Ramgarh. Even under British rule persisted the principality until it was in 1947 part of the Indian Union.

Already in its time of origin as Cantonment with barracks and living quarters pulled at the base also civilians who settled outside the specified areas for the military.

During the Second World War was temporarily an internment camp for enemy aliens who were also wives of British or Indian men, relatives of mission stations or India-based gurus German descent, and German Jews, in part, established here.

Between 1942 and 1944, 53,000 Chinese troops man underwent training in Ramgarh Cantonment. This so-called X-Force was brought at the expense of the Allies after Ramgarh and was at the beginning of scattered members of Chinese troops assembled, who had retired in 1942 from Burma from the advancing Japanese in the Indian Assam. Later conscripts from China were flown over the Himalayas to Assam and further brought by rail to Ramgarh. There they were given in addition to the military training during this period, material, clothing, food and Sold by the Allies. With the reconquest of Burma in the years 1944 and 1945 they played an important role.

Since 2007, Ramgarh Cantonment is the administrative seat of the district of Ramgarh.