Jutogh History Revisited

My recent visit to Jutogh & i clicked few more pics . Tried to revisit the history ,gathered few more facts. We would try to revisit the history with British time Bakery it use to serve British army and after independence till it's rusting days. As if now this building is not in condition to stand properly even.

Today it has lost it's importance . As gone the days it has lost its purpose of being a bakery also . Now it is a residence of few local people.

Jutogh Bakery 














The Next chapter in the history to be visited is of British time's Military Hospital . As i was not allowed to take hospital's pictures . However i took a pic from distance of dead house. From childhood we heard that it was the place from British era Army use to keep dead bodies at this small place. So it was called Dead House . 















As from my last posts i wrote that British army use to stay here . Before the independence Jutogh was also the redinence to a  large number of Muslim community people.

When new construction took place at jutogh people found many of the old things which belong to Muslim community . One the things were utensils BIRYAI DAIGS . People use to cook food in them .


A few old men of the town says that back in days there were no facilites like banks so people dug and hide their jeweler and ornaments in grounds and in their houses. Because of INDIA & PAKISTAN partition Muslims had to flee from jutogh and they had to hide their assests like that.

Later on few of the people found them even . One of the rare picture i got from my friend whose family found this kind of jewelry when they constructed their home.

















Many of the Muslim community people use to work for British Army as well. One of names i came to know
was. Mr.Subadar Kifayat Ullah, IDSM ,32nd (Poonch) Mountain Battery .

 Kifayat Ullah would continue to service in the Indian Army for a brief period longer including service on the North-West Frontier of India. He would retire as a Subedar in the mid-1920s.And in . From 1920 he use to stay at jutogh

if you want to read more about him that can be found at :- http://www.king-emperor.com/page14.html


Jutogh also had a dargaah or masjid  near to old Police station . But after some time government built some thing over there.

I found some rare pictures of jutogh . These are self explanatory . Below  is of barracks in jutogh in British era .














Below is of how jutogh town use to look back in time .


























In the continuation of my blog i will continue to write about jutogh and its history . Hope you have enjoyed my post.



Comments

  1. Unknown14 June 2017 at 21:22

    Hello
    did you came across any photo of Risaldar Major Chander Singh..my great grandfather..his photo said to have hangs in Jutogh Cantt.

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    1. rahul williams16 June 2021 at 23:15

      I will try to find it . Would you share some photos or some old if you want to share

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