Deolali, India - YMCA Compound - postcard c.1920s

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• Picture / Image:  YMCA Compound, Deolali
• Publisher: YMCA Deolali
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Deolali, or Devlali [d̪eːwɭaːli], is a small hill station and a census town in Nashik district, Maharashtra. It has the residential Barnes School.

Maharashtra is known for its abundance of greenery and scenic locales. One such hill station, set amongst the Sahyadri Hills of the state, is Deolali. A popular weekend getaway and health camp, Deolali has long been an important army base. Deolali, Camp, one of the oldest Indian military centers in the country, started the Air Force Station, the School of Artillery of the Indian Army, and other establishments in this region.

Located in the Nashik district of Maharashtra, Deolali has plenty of temples, picnic spots, vast tracts of untouched greenery and an atmosphere that is perfect for those looking for some peace and quiet, away from the hustle and bustle of bigger cities like Mumbai and Pune. With its beautiful landscape, many places to visit and enviable shopping options, Deolali continues to live up to its reputation as a destination to reckon with every year.

Around the town, It is also a town with various health sanatoriums and temples, including the Muktidham temple at Nashik Road. The town is also famous for Buddhist caves, popularly known as Pandavleni Caves.^[1] The golf course, inside the Deolali Cantonment, was one of the largest in India at the time of its development by the British.^[2]

Deolali was a British Army camp 100 miles north-east of Mumbai (then called Bombay). It was the original location of the Army Staff College (now the Defence Services Staff College of India and the Command and Staff College of Pakistan).

It is also the source of the British slang noun doolally tap, loosely meaning "camp fever", and referring to the apparent madness of men waiting for ships back to Britain after finishing their tour of duty. By the 1940s this had been widely shortened to just "doolally", an adjective meaning "mad (insane)" or "eccentric".^[4] The town was the setting for the first four series of the British sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum, set in 1945.