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Dehra Dun

District headquarters, 1816–1947

دہرہ دونदेहरादून

Today Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. Same place, renamed.

Key facts

Historical name
Dehra Dun
Type
District headquarters
Coordinates
30.3180° N, 78.0290° E(seed dataset)
Governance
Directly administered
Record confidence
Medium confidence
Identifiers
Q199528

Directly administered by the Governor-General of India, and therefore part of British India in the statutory sense of the Interpretation Act 1889, s.18.

Location

Pin placed at the coordinates recorded for this place. Colonial-era boundaries are not drawn.

Description

District head-quarters in the valley between the Siwaliks and the Himalayas, referred to in the Gazetteer's Rajpur entry as lying on the main road to Mussoorie.

Historical notes

Annexed after the Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814-16; home of the Survey of India headquarters (1816), the Imperial Forest Research Institute (1906) and later the Indian Military Academy (1932). Colonial spelling Dehra Doon; now Dehradun.

Administrative history

Administrative parenthood changed over time. Each row states the years it is recorded for, and the source it comes from.

Administrative units this place is recorded under, by year
YearsRelationUnitConfidence
from 1901Part ofUnited Provinces of Agra and OudhProvince · Directly administeredSnapshot from the 1901 census and the Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908-31). End of the relationship not established; recorded as open rather than inferred.Medium confidencesource
from 1901Part ofDehra DunDistrict · Directly administeredSnapshot from the 1901 census and the Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908-31). End of the relationship not established; recorded as open rather than inferred.Medium confidencesource

Recorded names

Every documented spelling and transliteration held for this place. The historical name is canonical; modern names redirect to it.

Name variants recorded for this place
NameScriptTypeYears
Dehra DunLatinHistorical English
D.DunLatinAlternative spelling
Dehra DunLatinAlternative spelling
Dehra Dun TownLatinAlternative spelling
DehradunLatinModern English
DehradunLatinIndigenous
Dera DunLatinAlternative spelling
DeradunLatinAlternative spelling
دہرہ دونArabicIndigenous
देहरादूनDevanagariIndigenous

Sources

  1. Encyclopedia· generalCC BY-SA

    Wikipedia: Dehradun, Wikimedia Foundation

    Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0

    Retrieved 2026-08-29

  2. Database· identityCC0

    Wikidata (Q199528), Wikimedia Foundation

    Wikidata, CC0 1.0

    Retrieved 2026-08-29

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