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Wed 19 Jan, 2005 08:17 pm
What was the name of the cooler high-elevation area where British people avoided the summer heat in India during the colonial period?
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i am laughing my ass off !!!
what a question and what a fitting reply !!!
Don't recall the name of the town, gollum, but it's now in the country called Pakistan. It'll come to me pretty soon.
It's true, brahmin. During the Raj, the heat was just too much for most of them.
Simla is one town another is Kodaicanal
SIMLA! Thanks, Algis. I knew it would come to me pretty soon.
I think you might be referring to the Kerala Hills, but it was generally just referred to as "the hill country" during the raj. It is said to have a climate similar to that of Scotland, and the Anglo ascendancy escaped the heat of the plains there in the summer time.
EDIT: Doooh . . . you're probably referring to Simla, in the Punjab, to which extent, referring to it as Pakistan today is not that far off.
Here is a map of the Kerala hill country, and
Here you will find a UN map, not very detailed, of India and Pakistan, which is in PDF format and takes a while to load. To find Simla--which is in Kashmir, and therefore under control of India, but claimed by Pakistan--look due north of the Inidian capital at New Dehli.
Het Setanta go a hour and a half due weat from Calicut and thats where I grew up in Triruvampadi
oh i think i will spill the beans.
west india = mt abu
north india = shimla, mcleod gunj, dalhousie
east india = darjeeling
south india = ooty, kodaikanal.