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gollum
 
Reply 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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Noddy24
 
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Reply Wed 19 Jan, 2005 08:26 pm
The Hills.
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brahmin
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2005 02:51 pm
haahaha

i am laughing my ass off !!!


what a question and what a fitting reply !!!
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roger
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2005 03:07 pm
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.
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Algis Kemezys
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2005 03:07 pm
Simla is one town another is Kodaicanal
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roger
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2005 03:08 pm
SIMLA! Thanks, Algis. I knew it would come to me pretty soon.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2005 03:11 pm
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.
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Algis Kemezys
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2005 03:15 pm
North of Amritsar
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Setanta
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2005 03:22 pm
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.
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Algis Kemezys
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2005 03:51 pm
Het Setanta go a hour and a half due weat from Calicut and thats where I grew up in Triruvampadi
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brahmin
 
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Reply Thu 19 May, 2005 04:35 pm
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.
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