Lieutenant Ross, the Assistant Political Agent in the Hill States, set up a wood cottage in Shimla. Three years later, his successor and the Scottish civil...
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region also has some famous hill stations that include Mussoorie, Drass, Dalhousie, Kullu, Shimla, Nainital and many more. Most hill stations in India were...
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(Priest/ father of Christ Church, The Ridge Shimla. Simla was all forest when the first Europeans came to these hills in 1820s. There were two or three dilapidated...
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infrastructure project finance. Mahindra was born on 9 October 1923 in Shimla, in the present-day Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. His father was the...
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Rampur, Himachal Pradesh (category Cities and towns in Shimla district)
Bushahar, Bashahr) was once among the largest of the twenty-eight Shimla Hill States under the administration of the British Raj keen to invest on regional...
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Kumarsain (category Cities and towns in Shimla district)
was ranked 6th in Order of precedence in the Shimla Hill States and 11th amongst the Punjab Hill States. Kumarsain's famous Hira Mahal (named after the...
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Shimla district is one of the twelve districts of the state of Himachal Pradesh in northern India. Its headquarters is the state capital of Shimla. Neighbouring...
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Theog (category Cities and towns in Shimla district)
as a tehsil in Shimla district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It is 30 km from state capital Shimla & 37 km from ISBT Shimla. First settlements...
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Mian Goverdhan Singh (category People from Shimla district)
Becoming Religious in a Secular Age (2016). V. Verma dedicated his book Shimla Hill States in the 19th Century (2008) to Singh. Singh was among the deceased...
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Baragaon, Himachal (redirect from Baragaon, Shimla)
princely state under Shimla Hill states. Sangri signed merger treaty with the Indian Union on 15 April 1948 Baragaon is 91 KM from Shimla city and lies 8 km...
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Governor General of India, with its headquarters in Shimla. After Indian Independence in 1947, the states all acceded to the new Dominion of India, most of...
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Dhani Ram Shandil (category People from Shimla)
of Himachal Pradesh. In 1999, he was elected to the 13th Lok Sabha from Shimla constituency in Himachal Pradesh as a Himachal Vikas Congress candidate...
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rain, such delicious English mud." Shimla was officially made the "summer capital of India" in the 1860s and hill stations "served as vital centres of...
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The Convent of Jesus and Mary, Chelsea, Shimla is a private English medium school, founded by a French nun, Marie Claudine Thevenet of the Religious of...
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princely states (including feudatory princes and zaildars) in the promontories of the western Himalaya were named after Shimla as the Simla Hill States. These...
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Pradesh and the Court was housed at "Harvingtan" (Kelston area, Bharari, Shimla). It was vested with the powers of a High Court under the Judicial Commissioner's...
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revolt was suppressed in 1905 with the help of the superintendent of Shimla Hill States. This was as payback for the support he had received earlier to drive...
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Himachal Pradesh (category States and territories established in 1971)
growth. The Himalayas attracts tourists from all over the world. Hill stations like Shimla, Manali, Dharamshala, Dalhousie, Chamba, Khajjiar, Kullu and Kasauli...
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capital of Punjab and Haryana) and Shimla (state capital) on the Kalka-Shimla National Highway-5. The narrow-gauge Kalka-Shimla railway passes through Solan...
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Nawar Valley (category Villages in Shimla district)
tehsil in Shimla district of Himachal Pradesh state, India. It is 92 km (57 mi) east of the district headquarters and the state capital Shimla city. The...
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which was earlier constituted by merging 27 hill states. After the re-organization of Punjab in 1966, Shimla, Kangra, Kullu, Lahaul & Spiti Districts, Una...
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Mangal State (category Princely states of Himachal Pradesh)
Balak Nath, Jalapa Devi, Chamunda. Ranked 10th in order of precedence Shimla hill states. On 20 December 1815 it entered the British raj by accepting a protectorate...
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within the Union of India. The province comprised the hill districts around Shimla and southern hill areas of the former Punjab region. Himachal became a...
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the Hill States such as Chamba and surrounding areas. The local Takri variants got the status of official scripts in some of the Punjab Hill States, and...
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southwest from Shimla - all of which lie on the NH-5. National capital New Delhi is 320 km south. Nearest airports are Chandigarh Airport, Shimla Airport and...
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territory. Over a period of time the Gorkhas annexed Sirmour and Shimla hill states. Under the leadership of Amar Singh Thapa, Gorkhas laid their siege...
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Kasauli (category Hill stations in Himachal Pradesh)
by the British Raj in 1842 as a Colonial hill station, 25 km (16 mi) from Solan, 77 km (48 mi) from Shimla, 58 km (36 mi) from Chandigarh, and 94 km...
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entrepreneur of Haroli and Shimla and his business has expanded to present-day Lahore. His Haveli (residence) is at the hill top of Haroli, by going up...
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Summerhill (redirect from Summer Hill)
Station, a 1916 former Canadian Pacific Railway station in Toronto Summer Hill, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh Summerhill, Dublin, an area in the north inner city...
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Rashtrapati Nilayam at Bolarum, Hyderabad and Retreat Building at Chharabra, Shimla are the official Retreat Residences of the president of India. The official...
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