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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hill_stations_in_Sri_Lanka "Category: Hill stations in Sri Lanka"], ''Wikipedia''.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hill_stations_in_Sri_Lanka "Category: Hill stations in Sri Lanka"], ''Wikipedia''.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hill_stations_in_Malaysia "Category: Hill stations in Malaysia"], ''Wikipedia''.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hill_stations_in_Malaysia "Category: Hill stations in Malaysia"], ''Wikipedia''.
 
===Books online===
Kennedy, Dane. [http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft396nb1sf/ ''The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj''] (full text, searchable). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. ISBN 0520201884. ISBN 978-0520201880
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1909/pager.html?object=67  1909 Map of Simla] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 26, Atlas 1909 edition'',  page 61.
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1931/pager.php?object=70 1931 Map of Simla] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 26, Atlas 1931 edition'', page 63.
*[http://archive.org/stream/handbooktravelle00john#page/n14/mode/1up "List of Maps and Plans"], page xi ''A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon'' published by John Murray, London Eighth Edition 1911 Archive.org including maps of the smaller hill stations of
**Bengal
***[http://archive.org/stream/handbooktravelle00john#page/n507/mode/2up  Darjeeling]  between pages 314 and 315
*** [http://archive.org/stream/handbooktravelle00john#page/n415/mode/2up  Murree] between pages 244 and 245
***[http://archive.org/stream/handbooktravelle00john#page/n461/mode/2up Mussooree and Landaur], between pages 280 and 281
***[http://archive.org/stream/handbooktravelle00john#page/n465/mode/2up  Naini Tal], between pages 282 and 283,
**Madras
***[http://archive.org/stream/handbooktravelle00john#page/n625/mode/2up  Ootacamund] between pages  412 and 413
**Bombay
***[http://archive.org/stream/handbooktravelle00john#page/n531/mode/2up  Matheran]  between pages 336 and 337,
**Princely State
***[http://archive.org/stream/handbooktravelle00john#page/n429/mode/2up  Srinagar and Environs], between pages 252 and 253
*Kennedy, Dane. [http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft396nb1sf/ ''The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj''] (full text, searchable). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. ISBN 0520201884. ISBN 978-0520201880


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A hill station is a high-altitude town used as a place of refuge from the summer heat. Prevalent in South Asia, they are to be found throughout Southeast Asia. Hill stations are largely identified with European colonialists but the origins of many go back much further in time. Hill stations were often the summer capitals of their state, province or region; by and large the coming of air-conditioning has made this role redundant but many towns remain popular tourist destinations.

British India

Hill stations were to be found throughout British India. Queen of them all was Simla, the summer capital of the British Raj, but its ascendancy only dated from 1911 when Delhi became the Imperial capital. Each Presidency capital had its own hill station retreat: Bengal (Calcutta) went to Darjeeling, Bombay to Matheran and Madras to Ootacamund.

Burma

Hill stations established by the British in Burma included Maymyo, the "summer capital", and Kalaw.

Ceylon

See the Wikipedia link below for more information about hill stations in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

Malaya

See the Wikipedia link below for more information about hill stations in Malaysia.


External links

Books online