Shimla

Shimla has been by the British in 1819 and annexed after the war Gurkha. At that time, for the temple of Hindu Goddess Shyamala Devi known. Scottish servant Charles Pratt Kennedy built the first house was in the British city in 1822.

Lord Amherst, Governor General of Bengal from 1823 to 1828, was a summer camp here in 1827 when there was a house in the city, and only a half-dozen when it came out this year. There were over a hundred in ten years.


One of his successor, chose Sir John Lawrence, Viceroy of India, 18641869, take the trouble to go to the management twice a year between Calcutta and a separate center more than 1,000 miles, although difficult to achieve. Lord Lytton, Viceroy 1876 -1880 planning efforts of the city since 1876, when he slept in a rented house, but began a house of the Viceroy later built on Observatory Hill Plan. A fire, a large part of the area, where indigenous peoples were wiped ( high Bazaar) and planning to become the European center of the city forced the people in the Middle and Lower Bazaars on the terraces Low by steep slopes of the Sierra. Upper Bazaar was acquitted by a decision of the Council, with many facilities including the library and theater, and offices - for police and military volunteers and city government.

During the heat wave, in Shimla was also home to the Commander in Chief of Indian Army, and many departments, in addition to being the summer capital of the Government of Punjab. They were joined during the hot season for the majority of British women, girls and men who remained in the plains. Together they founded the company in Shimla, who rejoiced after Charles Allen, like British India was close to never have a top crust. It is by the fact that it was very expensive, with an ideal climate and therefore desirable, and has limited housing has been facilitated. The British soldiers, merchants and officials went there every summer to escape the heat in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. The occurrence of numerous singles and men are not, and the number of women who are hot to Shimla has a reputation for adultery, and at least gossip about adultery as Rudyard Kipling wrote in a letter from Allen cited, he had a reputation the frivolity, gossip and intrigue.

The railway line from Kalka-Shimla, built in 1906, has the accessibility and popularity of Shimla. The railway line from Kalka to Shimla, with more than 806 bridges and 103 tunnels, has been promoted as a work of the art and became known as the Pearl of the Middle Kingdom. In 2008, he is part of humanity by the UNESCO World Heritage, Mountain in India. Not only is there a significant Muslim population in the region before the partition of British India. In addition, the capital of undivided Punjab, Shimla in 1871 and remained until the construction of the new city of Chandigarh (the present capital of Punjab) . After the founding of the State of Himachal Pradesh in 1971, Shimla was named its capital.

Pre-independence structures are still dot Shimla, buildings such as the Viceroy Lodge, Auckland House, Gorton Castle, the residence of Peterhof and the Gaiety Theatre are reminiscent of the British rule in India. Shimla British spanned half a mile along the ridge between Jakhoo Hill and Prospect Hill. In the middle column for the commercial, which stretches along the mountain ridge is South Central was closed to all cars, except the Viceroy and his wife.