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*[http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Asia/India/North/Uttarakhand/Nainital/photo715675.htm  Photograph of St. John's Church, Nainital] apparently now derelict. trekearth.com
*[http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Asia/India/North/Uttarakhand/Nainital/photo715675.htm  Photograph of St. John's Church, Nainital] apparently now derelict. trekearth.com
===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V18_339.gif "Naini Tal town"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume  18'', page 333.
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V18_339.gif "Naini Tal Town"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume  18'', page 333.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=oKAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA307 "Nynee Tal"] from "A Sketch of the Physical and Topographical Characters and Other Relations of the Hill Sanitaria of Darjeeling, Nynee Tal, Landour and Murree, in the Bengal Presidency", page 307  ''Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862'' Google Books


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 12:10, 3 June 2012

Naini Tal
Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 29.38°N, 79.45°E
Altitude: 2,084 m (6,837 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Nainital
State/Province: Uttarakhand
Country: India
Transport links

Bhim Tal , modern name Bhimtal (Wikipedia) is situated 22 kilometres from Naini Tal . It was the location of a Boer prisoner of war camp , established in 1902 at the north end of the lake, according to this link[1]

Approximately 65 kilometres (40 miles) from Nainital is the Jim Corbett National Park The author of this India List post has happy memories of her young days in the forests of Kumaon near the Jim Corbett National Park.


Spelling Variants

Modern name: Nainital
Variants: Nynee Tal/Naini Tal

External links

Historical books online

  • "Naini Tal Town" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 18, page 333.
  • "Nynee Tal" from "A Sketch of the Physical and Topographical Characters and Other Relations of the Hill Sanitaria of Darjeeling, Nynee Tal, Landour and Murree, in the Bengal Presidency", page 307 Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862 Google Books

References

  1. Page 78 Hill resorts of U.P. Himalaya,: a geographical study by Nutan Tyagi 1991 Google Books