Palampur

Palampur
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates:	32.1167°N 76.5333°E
Altitude:	1,472 m (4,829 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Palampur
State/Province:	Himachal Pradesh
Country:	India
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Palampur, situated in the Kangra Valley, owes much of its early rise and prosperity to tea. Its cultivation was introduced to Kangra from a Chinese hybrid growing in Almora by Dr. Jameson, Superintendent Botanical Gardens, North-West Frontier Province in 1849. This attracted several European tea planters and their families to the area.

The devastating earthquake of 4 April 1905 reduced the entire valley to rubble, crippling Kangra’s tea industry for years to come. The English planters, who had till then led the way with new techniques, machinery and marketing, left the valley for good.

Palampur is located 40 km from Dharmsala , 38 km from Kangra and 259 km from Simla

Volunteer Regiments

There was a detachment of the Punjab Light Horse at Palumpur in 1898.

See also

• 1905 Kangra earthquake

External links

• Palampur Wikipedia
• Palampur Tahsil Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 19, page 345.
• Churches and Cemeteries of Himachal Pradesh Himachal Tourism, now an archived page. Scroll down for Palampur and Church of St. John in the Wilderness, Palampur. The small church was rebuilt in the 1920s after it collapsed in the earthquake of 1905.
• Palampur Himachal Tourism, now an archived webpage.
• “Palampur cemetery, Himachal Pradesh: photos of graves & inscriptions-I” by K.J.S.Chatrath May 30, 2012. “Palampur cemetery, Part-II, Himachal Pradesh,” 2 June 2012 gravematters.in, now archived.
• Kangra Tea: Turning a new leaf by Abhilash Gaur 19 May 2008. www.livemint.com
• Kangra Tea–The Golden Brew by Aparna Datta www.crucible-online.net Originally published in Tea & Coffee Asia magazine, 3rd Quarter 2006