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Shimla : Shimla, a hill-station in the lower Himalayas, capital of present India’s Himachal Pradesh. From 1865 to 1939 it served as British India’s summer capital. Certainly at the turn of that century & most probably until the end of British Raj, the European section of the town, with the church, the Mall, the Gaiety Theatre, the Viceroy’s residence, & all the better buildings, houses & shops, was situated on the heights of the hills & inter-connecting ridges [s/a Darjeeling & Ooty]. “Lower down were located the native bazaar – a veritable jumble of rusty tin & wood houses packed so closely together on the steep mountainside that they gave the disconcerting impression of being stacked, willy-nilly, on top of each other. In 1892, there was no railway line to Shimla, the native riff-raff going up to eke out their living in Burra Sahibs’ bungalows trekked up & richer natives hired tongas.” [Based on The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes, by Jamyang Norbu; HarperCollins, India, 1999.]

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... fund of knowledge from the great literature available in India and elsewhere. Professor D. P. Chattopadhyaya released the following books published by the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla: 1. Where Morals and Mountain Gods Meet: Society and Culture in Himachal Pradesh, edited by Laxman S. Thakur. 2. Basic Objects: Case Studies in Theoretical Primitives, edited by Monima ...

... India and then the work of Sri Aurobindo would start in a big way. Six months after the cease-fire, on Jul. 2, 1972, Mrs Indira Gandhi and the Pakistan Prime Minister, Z.A.Bhutto, signed the Shimla Agreement. That Agreement settled a few points once and for all. First of all, it categorically drew the line of cease-fire. The line of control was clearly demarcated first on the ...