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Deolali transit camp
- ... that the British Army's Deolali transit camp is the origin for the slang term "doolally", meaning mentally ill? "was reflected in the term ‘doolally’, a popular term for madness ... in 1861, the British Army had set up a base and sanatorium at Deolali, Maharashtra," (20th Century British History Journal) "The slang word "doolally" or "doolali" is used to describe someone who is "out of one's mind" ... is derived from the name of a small military town in the Indian state of Maharashtra called Deolali" (British Medical Journal)
- ALT1: ... that the Deolali transit camp is the setting for the 1970s BBC comedy series It Ain't Half Hot Mum?"Another ensemble piece, it drew on both writers' wartime experience in India and set the action in Deolali: a British army camp 100 miles north-east of Bombay where everyone's gone "a bit doolally" (BBC)
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Gutta Percha Company
5x expanded by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 10:46, 20 January 2019 (UTC).
- Reviewing, long enough, interesting, still a stub. Will complete soon. Whispyhistory (talk) 11:15, 20 January 2019 (UTC)