by Shimla Walks | Apr 6, 2020 | General News, Himalayan Trips, HIstory, News and Deals, Stories, The Life in the Hills, Uncategorized
The British Government needed a transporter to move to the hills. The Gurkha British war had just come to an end in the Shimla hills and the Imperial Government had conceived an idea of setting up some army cantonments here. During that time a boy born in a village...
by Shimla Walks | Aug 15, 2018 | Shimla with Sumit, Stories, Uncategorized
The biggest challenge for the British gentry till 1903 was how to move up to the hills during summer. Shimla, the summer retreat had no connection with the world outside, and only a mountain trail connected it to the plains of North India. The locals hardly moved out...
