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* [http://www.pbase.com/mgpimages/image/49777822 Photograph] of a tea plantation, Darjeeling.
* [http://www.pbase.com/mgpimages/image/49777822 Photograph] of a tea plantation, Darjeeling.
* Photos of Darjeeling from  [http://oldindianphotos.blogspot.com/search/label/Darjeeling Old Indian Photos]
* Photos of Darjeeling from  [http://oldindianphotos.blogspot.com/search/label/Darjeeling Old Indian Photos]
*[http://www.windamerehotel.com/darjeeling/history.asp History of Darjeeling] from Windamerehotel.com


===Online books===
===Online books===
*''The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj'' by Dane Kennedy, 1996  [http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft396nb1sf&brand=ucpress University of California Press]
*''The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj'' by Dane Kennedy, 1996  [http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft396nb1sf&brand=ucpress University of California Press]
 
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/bengalassambehar00playuoft#page/244/mode/2up “Darjeeling”] from ''Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa : their history, people, commerce and industrial resources'' by Somerset Playne 1917 Archive.org





Revision as of 14:06, 26 April 2010

Darjeeling
Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 27.037559, 88.263044
Altitude: 2,134 m (7,001 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Darjeeling
State/Province: West Bengal
Country: India
Transport links
Darjeeling-Himalayan Railway

Darjeeling was a hill station in Bengal.


Records

Taylor’s Maps of the following Tea Districts, Darjeeling, Terai, Jalpaiguri and Dooars, Darrang, Golaghat, Jorhat Nowgong, Sibsagar, Lakhimpur, Dibrugarh, Cachar, Sylhet, with complete Index to all Tea Gardens, published 1910

  • The Australian newspaper dated 1 August 2009 has an article about a hotel in Darjeeling “where the clock stopped ticking circa 1930”, and where the library has a substantial collection relating to India's railways.


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External Links

Online books

  • The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj by Dane Kennedy, 1996 University of California Press
  • “Darjeeling” from Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa : their history, people, commerce and industrial resources by Somerset Playne 1917 Archive.org