Hill station: Difference between revisions

 

=== In South Asia ===

 

Hill stations in [[British Raj|British India]] were established for a variety of reasons. One of the first reasons in the early 1800s, was for the place to act as a [[sanitorium]] for the ailing family members of British officials.<ref name="Kennedy1996">{{cite book|author=Dane Keith Kennedy|title=The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the britishBritishRaj|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UveLzKDlZBEC&pg=PR9|year=1996|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-20188-0|page=24}}</ref> After the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|rebellion of 1857]], the British "sought further distance from what they saw as a [[First cholera pandemic (1817–24)|disease-ridden]] land by [escaping] to the [[Himalayas]] in the north". Other factors included anxieties about the dangers of life in India, among them "fear of degeneration brought on by too long residence in a debilitating land". The hill stations were meant to reproduce the home country, illustrated in [[Edward Bulwer-Lytton|Lord Lytton]]'s statement about [[Ooty|Ootacamund]] in the 1870s as having "such beautiful English rain, such delicious English mud."<ref name="MetcalfMetcalf2002">{{cite book|author1=Barbara D. Metcalf |author2=Thomas R. Metcalf |title=A Concise History of India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jGCBNTDv7acC |year=2002 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-63974-3 |page=111 }}</ref> [[Shimla]] was officially made the "summer capital of India" in the 1860s and hill stations "served as vital centres of political and military power, especially after the 1857 revolt."<ref name="kennedyDane">{{cite book |last1=Kennedy |first1=Dane |title=The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj |date=1996 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |url=http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft396nb1sf;brand=ucpress|access-date=19 Aug 2014}}</ref><ref name="Vipin1996">{{cite book | author=Vipin Pubby | title=Shimla Then and Now | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UrZ-ibfhMyMC&pg=PA17 | access-date=16 August 2013 | year=1996 | publisher=Indus Publishing | isbn=978-81-7387-046-0 | pages=17–34}}</ref>