ROLE OF THE BRITISH IN THE DARJEELING HILL STATION
2021年4月11日 · Darjeeling’s moderate climate prompted its improvement as a hill station for the British from the summer heat of the plains. The Eden Sanitarium was built in 1882 and named after the governor of Bengal, Sir Ashley Eden, and the Lowis Jubilee Sanitarium for Indians was set up in 1887. Read more about the history of Darjeeling
The Sanitarium in Darjeeling - c1860's - Old Indian Photos
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In November 1906, the Lowis Jubilee Sanatorium, the replica of the Eden Sanitarium that catered to wealthy Indians, invited the Governor of Bengal to visit the newly built ‘pthisis ward’. As we have seen in Chapter 1, at this time medical authorities condemned the climate of Darjeeling for causing various respiratory and intestinal diseases.
Older Darjeeling
Here are some interesting photographs of Darjeeling earlier in the last century. Some of them were very kindly sent to me by Sally Stewart, an ex-Dow Hill School student, and Susan Eason, great-great grandniece of Carolyn Stahl; others I found stashed away in an old shoe-box, and surprise, surprise, I found some in an old album at a book fair ...
Rajendra_Baid: Darjeeling Historical & Heritage Buildings
Darjeeling long recognized as “Queen of the Himalayas” can also boast of a number of historical buildings, manifestations of the British Raj’s interest in this hill station. In 1839 there were only ten huts and a hundred people in Darjeeling.
Leisure, economy and colonial urbanism: Darjeeling, 1835–1930
Darjeeling was no idyllic Edenic sanctuary; it was a bustling sanatorium town and the provincial capital for half the year. The larger colonization and settlement of the Darjeeling hills was reflected in the urban development of Darjeeling.
History of Darjeeling - Wikipedia
On 18 June 1829, Lloyd communicated to the government regarding the possibility of Darjeeling serving as a sanatorium, while about the same time Grant also urged the government to acquire the tract.
The Sanatorium Enclave: Climate and Class in Colonial Darjeeling ...
As we have seen in Chapter 2, Darjeeling was incorporated into the wider colonial polity and economy of north Bengal over the nineteenth century. Meanwhile, it also sustained its role as a resort for exclusive European medicalized leisure in the late Victorian period.
People of Darjeeling - 1870s - Old Indian Photos
Photograph of Lepchas at Darjeeling, from an Album of Miscellaneous views in India, taken by John H.Doyle in the 1870s. The Lepcha people are the aboriginal inhabitants of Sikkim (which was the Kingdom of Sikkim till 1975, when it became a part …
The Sanatorium of Darjeeling: European Health in a Tropical …
This chapter, which focuses on the hill-station of Darjeeling as part of a European colonial enclave in tropical north Bengal, first provides an overview of Darjeeling and its expansion under British colonial rule before turning to its colonial economy.