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Imperial Simla the Political Culture of the Raj

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Title Imperial Simla the Political Culture of the Raj
 
Creator Kanwar, Pamela
 
Subject 954 South Asia India
 
Description My affair with Simla began when l came to live here in 1972, and I turned to research that culminated in a doctoral dissertation. My fascination for the town, however, grew on, and I spent several years thereafter delving into ideas and material unique to the urban and social experience of the summer capital and its imperial milieu. The vast amount of material available that reflects British interests and concerns contrasts curiously with offical reticence about its acquisition and choice as summer capital. Unlike for New Delhi, there was no formal Durbar which pronounced the hill station to be summer capital. The Simla tract was exchanged with local rulers in 1830. The document is not enshrined in a Sanad or Treaty, rather it forms an innocuous part of the first Settlement Report of the Simla District compiled by a Deputy Commissioner, some twenty years after the event (see Appendix 1).
 
Publisher Oxford University Press
 
Date 1990
 
Type Book
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://hillagricrepository.co.in/1165/1/67563.pdf
Kanwar, Pamela (1990) Imperial Simla the Political Culture of the Raj. Oxford University Press, India. ISBN 0 19 562588 9