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.

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.

Cemeteries

A BACSA (British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia) cemetery publication is

• Darjeeling and the Dooars: Christian Cemeteries and Memorials 1842–1995 by Eileen Hewson, 2006. A record of the cemeteries and isolated graves from this corner of India with MIs and biographical notes on the planters and other notable tombs. 93pp, 23 illustrations, and map

BACSA are in the process of putting the indexes to its cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.

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