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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 932 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DEHRA , a See also:

town of See also:British See also:India, headquarters of the Dehra Dun See also:district in the See also:United Provinces. Pop. (1901) 28,095. It lies at an See also:elevation of 2300 ft. Here the See also:Hardwar-Dehra railway terminates. Dehra is the headquarters of the Trigonometrical Survey and of the See also:Forest See also:Department, besides being a See also:cantonment for a See also:Gurkha force. The Forest School, which trains subordinate forest officials for all parts of India, is a See also:fine See also:building. Attached to it is an institution for the scientific study of sylvi-culture and the exploitation and See also:administration of forests. The town of Dehra See also:grew up See also:round the See also:temple built in 1699 by the heretical See also:Sikh Guru, See also:Ram Rai, the founder of the Udasi See also:sect of Ascetics. This temple is a remarkable building in See also:Mahommedan See also:style. The central See also:block, in See also:imitation of the See also:emperor See also:Jahangir's See also:tomb, contains the See also:bed on which the Guru, after dying at will and coming back to See also:life several times, ultimately died outright; it is an See also:object of See also:great veneration. At the corners of the central block are smaller monuments commemorating the Guru's wives.

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