A large number of hill stations were developed by the British in the Indian colony and these were chosen as the summer capitals and seats of administrative authority of the Raj. This work looks at the way the Empire was built in the hills through the sites of the church, schools, and sport activities to imitate the lifestyle of the British.
A large number of hill stations were developed by the British in the Indian colony and these were chosen as the summer capitals and seats of administrative authority of the Raj. This work looks at the way the Empire was built in the hills through the sites of the church, schools, and sport activities to imitate the lifestyle of the British.
Queeny Pradhan is a professor of history at the University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India. She was awarded the Nehru Memorial Fund Scholarship for doctoral research in 1996 and was a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, from 2010 to 2012.
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* List of Table and Figures * Acknowledgements * Introduction: Re-Imagining Hills-Theorizing Space * 1: Hills in the Colonial Imagination * 2: The Indigenous Vision * 3: Acquiring the Station: Political Dynamics * 4: Building the Station: The Early Years * 5: Organization of Space: The Imperial Spectacle * 6: Reordering the Space: A Colonial Metropolis * 7: Hygeia, Disease, Municipal Order: A Paradox in the Dell * 8: Social Life in the Hills: Institutionalization of Leisure * 9: Reproduction of Imperial Ethics: Novitiate in the Hills * Conclusion: Power Hieroglyphics-Patterns of Growth * Appendix 1: Treaty of 1861 between Ashley Eden and the Maharaja of Sikkim * Appendix 2: Convention between Great Britain and China on Sikkim and Tibet, 1890 * Appendix 3: Regulations regarding Trade, Communication, and Pasturage under the Sikkim-Tibet Convention * Appendix 4: A Description of Indian Servants at Simla * Appendix 5: Education as an Ordering Device in Simla * Appendix 6: An Extract from W.B. Jackson's Report on Darjeeling * Appendix 7: First Cornerstone of Christ Church, Simla, 9 September 1844
* List of Table and Figures * Acknowledgements * Introduction: Re-Imagining Hills-Theorizing Space * 1: Hills in the Colonial Imagination * 2: The Indigenous Vision * 3: Acquiring the Station: Political Dynamics * 4: Building the Station: The Early Years * 5: Organization of Space: The Imperial Spectacle * 6: Reordering the Space: A Colonial Metropolis * 7: Hygeia, Disease, Municipal Order: A Paradox in the Dell * 8: Social Life in the Hills: Institutionalization of Leisure * 9: Reproduction of Imperial Ethics: Novitiate in the Hills * Conclusion: Power Hieroglyphics-Patterns of Growth * Appendix 1: Treaty of 1861 between Ashley Eden and the Maharaja of Sikkim * Appendix 2: Convention between Great Britain and China on Sikkim and Tibet, 1890 * Appendix 3: Regulations regarding Trade, Communication, and Pasturage under the Sikkim-Tibet Convention * Appendix 4: A Description of Indian Servants at Simla * Appendix 5: Education as an Ordering Device in Simla * Appendix 6: An Extract from W.B. Jackson's Report on Darjeeling * Appendix 7: First Cornerstone of Christ Church, Simla, 9 September 1844
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