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Indian independence · TURNING POINT

Simla, summer capital of the Raj

On the Indian independence map as “Simla — the summer capital”

Each April–October — To escape the heat, the government of 300 million people travels 7,000 feet up into the Himalayan foothills. There, in a hill station only one ridge wide, a fifth of the year’s files are signed.

Type
Turning point
Chapter
British Raj at its height (chapter 3 of Indian independence)
Atlas
Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964
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TURNING POINT · INDIAN INDEPENDENCE & PARTITION, 1857–1964

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