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Shimla: History Was Made Here By Aditi Shah March 12th 2019 “The air is delicious, most healthy and bracing, but anything more funny than the appearance of the town you cannot imagine… If you look up from your garden seat, you see the gables of a cottage tumbling down on the top of you. If you lean over your terrace wall, you look down on your neighbour’s chimney pots. That the capital of the Indian empire should be thus hanging on by its eyelids to the side of a hill is too absurd.” These lines form a part of a letter written by then Governor-General of India, Lord Dufferin, on 15th May 1885. He was describing Shimla, or Simla, as the British called it, a once inconspicuous village in the lap of the Himalayas which went on to become the summer capital of an empire that ruled one-fifth of the world’s population. Today, it is the capital city of Himachal Pradesh. Every year, the British administration embarked on a strenuous 1,800-km journey that took five days by road. Transferring
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