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*Modern name: Mussoorie, <br>Variants: Mussooree, /Masuri, /Mansuri/Mussoori<br> Modern name: Landor<br>*Landour, Variants: Landaur
== Useful Sources ==
*''Mussoorie Merchant: The Indian Letters of Mauger Fitzhugh Monk 1828 - 1849'' published by [http://web.me.com/hughashleyrayner/pagodatreepress.com/Mussoorie_Merchant.html Pagoda Tree Press]. This set of previously unpublished letters home give a fascinating insight into the early days of life in Mussoorie.
*''Mussoorie Medley: Tales of Yesteryear'', published by [http://www.niyogibooks.com/glpcat/clnt_cat_ep.pl?pcid=61641&cloc=10147456_10147489_10519235 Niyogi Books], 2010. Extensive, well-researched book by local historian and university lecturer Ganesh Saili. Outlines the British period in Mussoorie in depth, with many anecdotes and historical photographs. A review of the book, [http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?265508 Hill, Vale & Many A Tale] from Outlookindia.com
*''Mussoorie and Landour: Days of Wine and Roses'', published by Lustre Press Pvt Ltd, New Delhi. (Can be purchased through online booksellers such as Amazon.com, or you may be able to interloan it through your local library.) 1992. Fascinating account of the two hill stations, with historical photographs, by well-known author Ruskin Bond and lecturer/historian Ganesh Saili, both Mussoorie residents.
*Mussoorie and Dehra Dun are mentioned in this 1861 [http://books.google.com/books?id=b60IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA424 Google Books] link. A general search of Google Books for 'Mussoorie' will also yield interesting snippets.
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulhami/5283956729/in/gallery-23268776@N03-72157629027065985/ Photograph: St Pauls Church, Landour Cantonment] flickr.com
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/india-old-postcard-st-paul-s-church-landour-mussoorie-for-sale-66935 Postcard: St. Pauls Church Landour – Mussoori] stamps-auction.com
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=oKAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA309 "Topographical and Sanitary Report on Landour"] by Ludovic C Stewart, Staff Surgeon Major, page 309 ''Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862'' Google Books
*''The Himalayan Gazetteer or the Himalayan Districts of the North Western Province of India'' by Edwin T Atkinson in 3 Volumes (6 Parts) originally published 1882, 1884, 1886 is available, in a reprint edition, to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. Covers the regions of Kumaon and Garhwal. Volume 1, part 1 Contents computer page 12; Volume 1, part 2 Contents cp 12, Index cp 536; Volume 2, part 1 Contents cp18; Volume 2, part 2 Contents cp 16 Index cp 458, includes History of the British in the area; Volume 3, part 1 Contents cp 10 Place names A-J; Volume 3, part 2 Contents cp 8 Place names K-Z.
**Mussooree appears in Volume 3, Part 2, computer page 236.
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'''Mussoorie''' is was a [[hill station]] situated in the foothills Dehra Dun District of [[United Provinces]] during the HimalayasBritish period. See [[United Provinces Districts]]. It was developed by the British from 1825 as a summer retreat and remains a popular tourist destination. Several boarding schools catering for British families were established in and around Mussoorie and its satellite, . '''Landour'''was a cantonment adjacent to Mussoorie. There was are a few references to a British cantonment at Mullingar, which is probably part of Landour, where there is a Mullingar Hill.
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==FIBIS resources==
*[httphttps://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=343 FIBIS database: Mussoorie: Camel’s Back and Landour Cemeteries] transcriptions and images of all legible headstones in 2017, photographed by Mr Rajat Sharma, part of the [https://searchwww.fibis.org/frontisabout-2/cemeteries/cemeteries-project/ FIBIS Cemetery Project] where photographs were commissioned by FIBIS, and are available for a modest donation/fee.*[http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=974&s_id=294 FIBIS database: Percy-Smith/Bullock papers: Mussoorie Stokes School Ledger 1866-1899]*[http://gallery.fibis.org/index.php?/search/338 Images of Mussoorie in FIBIS Gallery]*[http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/Category:Mussoorie_images Images of Mussoorie in Fibiwiki]
== Schools ==
[[Image: MussoorieCainevilleHouseSEntrance.jpg |300px|thumb|Caineville House School former Entrance]]
:*[[Schools#C|Convent of Jesus & Mary]] established 1845. Girls' Catholic School.[http://www.cjmwaverley.org/index.php Website]
:*[[Schools#F|Fairlawn School]] was originally established as the '''Sind, Punjab and Delhi Railway School''' in August 1877 and later renamed the '''North Western Railway School'''. In 1894, the school closed and the pupils were transferred to '''Oak Grove School''' (see below).
:*[[Schools#O|Oak Grove School]] was founded in 1888 by the [[East Indian Railway]] and took in the pupils from '''Fairlawn School''' when the latter closed in 1894. The school still enjoys a connection with Indian Railways.
For more information about schools, including additional schools, refer ''The Guide to Mussoorie'' in 'Historical books online' below.
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mussoorie Mussoorie] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landour Landour] Wikipedia
*[https://www.cblandour.org.in/about-us/ Landour Cantonment Board: History]
*[http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/dehradun/st-pauls-church-is-a-jewel-in-mussoories-crown.html "St. Paul’s Church is a Jewel in Mussoorie’s Crown"] by Jaskiran Chopra 13 October 2013 '' The Pioneer''
*[http://people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/59/landourcookbooks.html "The Landour Community Centre Cookbooks: From the 1920s to the 1960s and the present"] by Katharine (Kittu) Parker Riddle. An article dated 1 July 2003.
*[httphttps://wwwweb.thehinduarchive.com/todays-paperorg/tp-featuresweb/tp-sundaymagazine20160414061415/article3641338.ece "Mussoorie blues"] by Rakhshanda Jalil, July 15, 2012, thehindu.com. Includes mention of Eugenie Catherine West (d. 1895). She was the first superintendent of the Christian Training School and Orphanage that was to later transform into the Wynberg Homes and finally the Wynberg Allen School as it is now called.*[http://www.dailypioneertelegraphindia.com/sunday-edition1071130/sundayagendaasp/middle-india-agendaopinion/43671-finding-the-real-mussooriestory_8605045.html asp "City Of Grey Hair And Green Hedges"Finding the real Mussoorie: Landour"The Doon Valley Across The Years] by Jaskiran ChopraSubhrojit Dutta November 30, 18 February 2012 2007 ''The PioneerTelegraph, Calcutta'', now an archived webpage.*[httphttps://wwwweb.dailypioneerarchive.comorg/state-editions/dehradun/68114-young-forgotten-founder-of-mussoorie.html "<nowiki>[<web/nowiki>Frederick<nowiki>]<20180203050146/nowiki> Young, forgotten founder of Mussoorie"] by Jaskiran Chopra, 25 May 2012 ''The Pioneer'' Dehradun edition*[http://www.allaboutnewspapers.com:80/may10/article8.htm Hill Station's newspapers] by Ganesh Saili. Article about Mussoorie’s newspapers and Guides. May-June 2010 allaboutnewspapers.com *[http://www, now an archived webpage.telegraphindia.com/1071130/asp/opinion/story_8605045.asp "City Of Grey Hair And Green Hedges": The Doon Valley Across The Years] by Subhrojit Dutta November 30, 2007 ''The Telegraph, Calcutta''
*[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110316/dplus.htm#10 Mussoorie Library: A testimony to colonial past still stands tall in town] by Ajay Ramola March 16, 2011 ''The Tribune''
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131203084529/http://www.stampsthehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-auctionsundaymagazine/article3641338.ece "Mussoorie blues"] by Rakhshanda Jalil, July 15, 2012, thehindu.com, now an archived webpage. Includes mention of Eugenie Catherine West (d. 1895). She was the first superintendent of the Christian Training School and Orphanage that was to later transform into the Wynberg Homes and finally the Wynberg Allen School as it is now called.*[http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/dehradun/does-frederick-young-sound-familiar-to-mussoorie-residents.html "Does Frederick Young Sound Familiar To Mussoorie Residents?"] by Jaskiran Chopra 25 May 2014 ''The Pioneer''. Army Officer Frederick Young built a hunting lodge in Mussoorie in 1823, leading to the establishment of a convalescent depot for British soldiers at Landour in 1827.*[http://www.cntraveller.in/story/a-to-do-list-for-landour/ "A to-do list for Landour"] by Anurag Mallick January 29, 2016 cntraveller.in*[http://www.indiaofthepast.org/contribute-memories/read-contributions/life-back-then/140-american-boyhood-british-india"An American Boyhood in British India"] by Stanley E Brush, born 1925. indiaofthepast.org. The author attended Woodstock School.*[http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/history/1950s/1219-locksley01.html "Memoirs of an IAF Technical Signals Officer - 1"] bharat-rakshak.com. Locksley Percival Fegredo was born in 1926 and was at St. Georges College, run by the Irish Patrician Brothers from 1938 to 1944.*[http://scroll.in/article/812971/the-ghosts-of-the-savoy-the-oldmussoorie-postcardmurder-mystery-that-guardinspired-roomagatha-fromchristies-theatrefirst-novel "The ghosts of the Savoy: The Mussoorie murder mystery that inspired Agatha Christie’s first novel"] by Arup K Chatterjee 3 August 2016 Scroll.in. Mussoorie’s Savoy Hotel, on the roadto Happy Valley, built on the site of Reverend Maddock’s Mussoorie School in 1902.:[https://www.dailypioneer.com/2016/vivacity/murder-at-savoy.html "Murder at Savoy"] by Anupma Khanna 7 January 2016 ''The Pioneer''*[https://www.paperjewels.org/postcard/rickshaw-mussoorie-dandy-landourmussoorie Postcard: Rickshaw Mussoorie. Dandy Mussoorie] paperjewels.org. "A very unusual early split-forscreen postcard", by Julian Rust, undated.:[https://www.paperjewels.org/postcard/kulri-salebazaar-74640 mussoorie Postcard: Guard Room from Theatre RoadKulri Bazaar, Mussoorie] catalogued Clifton & Co. Bombay c 1910. paperjewels.org. ====Maps====*[http://archive.org/stream/handbooktravelle00john#page/n461/mode/2up "Map of Mussooree and Landaur"], between pages 280 and 281, ''A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon'' published by John Murray, London Eighth Edition 1911 Archive.org.*1922 Guide Map of Mussoorie and Landourby Survey of India is available to download from [[Online books#Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset|Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]] stamps, located under Maps, Indian Subcontinent-auctionAfter 1900, 1922.com
====Historical books online====
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V18_067.gif Mussoorie] Imperial Gazetteer
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V16_141.gif Landour] Imperial Gazetteer
*[https://archive.org/stream/firstimpressions02baco#page/94/mode/2up "Mussoori and Landour"] , page 94,'' Volume II, First impressions and studies from nature in Hindostan; embracing an outline of the voyage to Calcutta, and five years residence in Bengal and the Doab, from MDCCCXXXI to MDCCCXXXVI'' by Thomas Bacon, Lieut. Of the Bengal Horse Artillery 1837 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=U6_bUukB-nIC&pg=PA251 Mussoorie] page 251 with a section on Landour page 258 ''The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842 Volume II'' Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/wanderingsinind01langgoog ''Wanderings in India: and other sketches of life in Hindostan''] by John Lang 1859 Archive.org. Missing the one image. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000003515A British Library Digital Collection]. The one image is rotatable. Most of the chapters first appeared in Charles Dickens’s magazine, ''Household Words''. The first chapter is titled "The Himalaya Club", set in Mussoorie.
:*[http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lang-john-3985 Lang, John (1816–1864)] by John Earnshaw. Australian Dictionary of Biography. An Australian, Lang came to India in 1842, where he initially practiced as a barrister at the Calcutta Bar, until he founded the ''Mofussilite'', c 1846, which became one of the most important newspapers in India. He died in Mussoorie in 1864.
:*[http://www.livemint.com/Politics/PqYPVP2CjuoEoxmnHonWkN/The-story-of-John-Lang.html "The story of John Lang"] by Venkat Ananth, November 18 2014. livemint.com. John Lang was considered among the earliest champions of a free press in India.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=h05FAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA7 Mussoorie] page 7 ''A Summer Ramble in the Himalayas: With Sporting Adventures in the Vale of Cashmere'' Edited by Mountaineer [Frederick Wilson] 1860 Google Books
*Mussoorie and [[Dehra Dun]] are mentioned in [http://books.google.com/books?id=b60IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA424 "Himalayan Holidays I and II]" from page 424 ''Bombay Miscellany (Chesson & Woodhall’s), Volume I''. November 1860- April 1861. Google Books.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=oKAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA309 "Topographical and Sanitary Report on Landour"] by Ludovic C Stewart, Staff Surgeon Major, page 309 ''Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862'' Google Books
:[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/378/mode/2up Landour] page 378 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org
*''The Himalayan Gazetteer or the Himalayan Districts of the North Western Province of India'' by Edwin T Atkinson in 3 Volumes (6 Parts) originally published 1882, 1884, 1886 is available, in a reprint edition, at Archive.org, mirror editions from Digital Library of India. Covers the regions of Kumaon and Garhwal. See [[Gazetteers]] for all volumes.
:*Mussooree appears in Volume 3, Part 2, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.95854/page/n235 page 597 (digital page 236)] Archive.org.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/landfiveriversa01rossgoog#page/n269/mode/2up A description of Masuri and Landaur], ''The Land of the Five Rivers and Sindh: Sketches Historical and Descriptive'', page 260 by David Ross 1883 Archive.org
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1884-guide-to-masuri-landaur-dehra-dun-and-hills-north-of-dehra-by-northam-s-pdf ''Guide to Masuri, Landaur, Dehra Dun and Hills North of Dehra''] by John Northam 1884. Pdf download Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset*''Guide to Mussoorie, Landour, Chakrata and Dehra Dun, etc'' by Robert Hawthorne published at Mussoorie by Beacon Press 1890 is available to download as a pdf from [[Online books#Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset|Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]] under the title [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1890-the-beacons-guide-to-mussoorie-by-hawthorne-pdf/ ''The Beacon’s Guide to Mussoorie''] *''Guide to Mussoorie with Notes on Adjacent Districts'' 1907 is available to [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1907-guide-to-mussoorie-with-notes-on-adjacent-districts-pdf/ download as a pdf] from [[Online books#Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset|Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]].:[http://people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/woodstock/writings/GuideToMussoorie1908Selected.pdf Extracts from ''Guide to MussourieMussoorie'', 1908] "Compiled from various sources for F Bodycot, Mafasilite Printing Works, Mussoorie". 54 page pdf. Original book 159 pages. Note this pdf may be slow to load ([https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/woodstock/writings/GuideToMussoorie1908Selected.pdf archive.org link])*:*Information about schools may be found on pages 47-52 of the pdf.*:*[http://people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/woodstock/writings/guideToMussoorie1908Notes.html Notes on the ''Guide to Mussoorie''] by Philip McEldowney ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131121042013/http://people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/woodstock/writings/guideToMussoorie1908Notes.html archive.org link])
:'''Restricted access'''. The complete version of this book appears to be available to those in North America on [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=5-YwAQAAMAAJ Google Books] and [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011260708 Hathi Trust Digital Library] websites
*[httphttps://archive.org/streamdetails/handbooktravelle00john#travelerstalemem0000cand/page/118 Mussoorie] page119 ''A Traveler's Tale : Memories of India'' by Enid Saunders Candlin 1974. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The author’s husband was a metallurgist/chemical engineer who worked in India 1941-46.*[https:/n461/modebooks.google.com.au/2up "Map of Mussooree and Landaur"books?id=YYXNIzbhySIC&pg=PA21 Mussoorie], between pages 280 and 281, page 21 ''A Handbook for Travellers All the Way To Heaven: An American Boyhood in India, Burma, and Ceylonthe Himalayas'' published by John MurrayStephen Alter, London Eighth Edition 1911 Archive(born 1956) originally published 1998.orgGoogle Books, sample pages only.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=raQEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA406 "Extract of a Report on the Medicinal Garden at Mussoorea, addressed to the Honorable Sir C. Metcalfe, Bart, in charge of the Honorable Company's Botanic Garden, Calcutta"] by J. F. Royle, Esq. ''Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta Volume 4 1829'', page 406
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