Near The Mall. Shimla-171003
Sadhora, Baldeyan, Shimla - 171 012
Near high court, The Mall, Shimla.
Near Gorton Castle Square, The Mall, Shimla
Near HP Secretariat,Chotta Shimla Circular Road, Shimla
Earls Field Estate, Near St. Bedes College, Shimla
Mashobra, Naldehra Road, Shimla, 171007
The History of Shimla goes back to 1819. Shimla was under the control of the Gurkhas before that. It was after the Gurkha War, the British soldiers discovered thick wood adjacent to the e temple of Goddess Shyamala. The new discovered place was named Shimla.
Historians have different opinion on this. They hold the view that Shimla got its name from the word Shyamalaya, which means he blue house based on a house built by blue slate by a fakir.
Shimla would have never found a place in the tourism map of India so prominently if the British had failed to discovered it. The year 1819 was eventful as it was in this year only , that the then Assistant Political Agent of Hill States, Lt. Ross constructed the first British residence- a wooden one. Later the Kennedy House was built by Lt.Charles Patt Kennedy. Shimla became one of the favored places of the colonial master after 1830. Gradually it evolved into one of the popular hang out places of the British after the Gurkha War. Women fell in love with the soothing weather conditions of the hill station.
Shima’s historical journey is heavily stuffed with beautiful names, fondly given to her by the Britishers. For some Shimla was Viceroy's Shooting Box, for some it was Abode of the Little Tin Gods and Mount Olympus. But the most popular name was the Queen of all Hills. When India gained her independence, Shimla was the capital of Punjab but in 1966 the British summer capital was accorded a new status. She became the capital of the one the most beautiful States of India, Himachal Pradesh.
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