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'''Simla''' (now known as Shimla) was the [[hill station]] linked with [[Delhi]] and the summer retreat of the Viceroy from 1864. In the centre of Simla is the large open space known as The Ridge. The colonial-era architecture in the town is notable for its mock Tudor style.
 
==Railway==
==FIBIS resources==
*[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=32&s_id=0 Members of the Himalayan Brotherhood, Simla]
 
== Related articles ==
*An [http://dspace.wrlc.org/view/ImgViewer?url=http://dspace.wrlc.org/doc/manifest/2041/38070 article] about Dorothy Sanders, who was deaf and spent her childhood in India. It briefly mentions she attended a "hearing school" in Simla, (probably circa 1900/1910). ''The Silent Worker'', Volume 32, No.6, March 1920 from the [http://www.aladin0.wrlc.org/gsdl/collect/gasw/gasw.shtml Gallaudet University Archives], WRLC Libraries Digital and Special Collections
*[http://www.pricewebhome.co.uk/Docs/Price/Colonial/Colonial_Boy.htm Colonial Boy] by John Alton Price, born 1923 in Simla where he spent his childhood, attending Bishop Cotton School from age 9. From his family website.
===Books online=Historical books on-line====
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/simlapastpresent00buckrich#page/n11/mode/2up ''Simla, Past and Present''] by Edward J Buck 1904 Archive.org. It includes a chapter on [http://www.archive.org/stream/simlapastpresent00buckrich#page/208/mode/2up Cemeteries]
*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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