Darjeeling

Darjeeling
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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.

Contents

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

External Links

• Wikipedia
• Darjeeling from the website Koi-Hai
• Darjeeling Tea History
• Photograph of a tea plantation, Darjeeling.

Online books

• The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj by Dane Kennedy, 1996 University of California Press