Darjeeling

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.

There were cantonments at Darjeeling and at Lebong, situated below Darjeejing about eight miles away.

Records

• The British Library has the following book in its catalogue:

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.

Related Articles

• Tea Plantation
• Darjeeling-Himalayan Railway

External Links

• Wikipedia
• Darjeeling from the website Koi-Hai
• Darjeeling Tea History
• Photograph of a tea plantation, Darjeeling.
• Photos of Darjeeling from Old Indian Photos
• History of Darjeeling from Windamerehotel.com
• The cantonment at Lebong 1910 Postcard from Images of Asia

Online books

• Newman's Guide to Darjeeling and Its Surroundings, Historical & Descriptive 1900 Archive.org
• History Of The Darjeeling District by E C Dozey 1917 is available to read online on the Digital Library of India website. Refer Online books-Digital Library of India for more details about this site. A chapter on schools commences computer page 99, and a chapter on cemeteries, with details of burials, commences computer page 140
• 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