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Dane Kennedy, following Monika Bührlein, identifies three stages in the evolution of hill stations in India: high refuge to hill station, and hill station to town. The first settlements started in the 1820s, primarily as sanitoria. In the 1840s and 1850s, there was a wave of new hill stations, with the main impetus being "places to rest and ...
Hill stations in India by state or union territory (22 C) A. Hills of Andhra Pradesh (1 C, 9 P) Hills of Arunachal Pradesh (1 C, 2 P) Hills of Assam (5 P) B.
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Nandi Hills is an 11th-century hill station that was developed by the Ganga dynasty in present-day Karnataka, India. [3] [4] Tipu Sultan (1751–1799) notably used it as a summer retreat. [5] Hill stations in British India were established for a variety of reasons.
Gulmarg (Urdu pronunciation: [ɡʊlməɾɡ]), known as Gulmarag [4] (Kashmiri pronunciation: [ɡulmarɨɡ]; lit. ' meadow of flowers ') in Kashmiri, is a town, hill station, tourist destination, skiing destination, and a notified area committee in the Indian controlled part of the disputed territory Jammu and Kashmir [5] [6] [7] of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district in the Indian union ...
The cities which are included in these ranges are Pauri, Tehri, Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag, Chamoli, and Chota Char Dham pilgrimage namely Gangotri, Yamunotri, Badrinath and Kedarnath.
Nanda Devi is the highest peak located entirely within India. [2] It is located in the Chamoli district. Arunachal Pradesh: Kangto: Eastern Himalayas: 7,060 23,160 Kangto lies along the Line of Actual Control between India and China. Himachal Pradesh: Reo Purgyil: Western Himalayas: 6,813
18 April, 2013 - Supreme Court of India orders for an Environmental Referendum among Particularly vulnerable tribal groups in Niyamgiri through Gram panchayat to decide on mining. This is a Landmark verdict called Odisha Mining Corporation vs Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change case in which court upheld principles of Panchayats ...