Indian independence · TURNING POINT
Simla, summer capital of the Raj
On the Indian independence map as “Simla — the summer capital”
Each April–October — The government of 300 million people rides 7,000 feet up into the Himalayan foothills to escape the heat. A fifth of the year’s files are signed in a hill station the width of one ridge.
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- British Raj at its height (chapter 3 of Indian independence)
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