Hill Station

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Khajjiar Hill Station, Himachal Pradesh (India)

Hill Station refers to places set up and used by senior military and civil officials in British India and other parts of the British colonial empire that served as retreats during the hot summer months.

location

For climatic and health reasons, hill stations were mostly built in wooded areas and at altitudes over 1000 or even over 1500  m ; but there are also a few so-called hill stations - mostly located near the coast - with a height of less than 100  m (e.g. Manipal ).

tourism

Many Hill Stations had sanatorium and spa facilities; most were initiated and used by the British Army . Some of these places were visited before the British by the regional maharajas or the Mughal rulers residing in Delhi and Agra and their court. Many former hill stations now play an important role in regional, and sometimes even national, tourism. Some were fully or partially integrated into nature reserves or converted into such (e.g. the Biligiriranga Hills , Nagarhole or Pachmarhi ).

List of Hill Stations in India

Andhra Pradesh Bhadrachalam Ananthagiri Hills Araku Valley Horsley Hills Lambasingi Nallamala Hills Himalayan darshan Arunachal Pradesh Along Bomdila Itanagar Khonsa Tawang Pankaj Mutafa Hills Assam Haflong Chhattisgarh Chirmiri Mainpat Amarkantak Lapha Hill Chorla Ghat Gujarat Saputara Wilson Hills Haryana Morni Hills Himachal Pradesh Barog Baijnath Bir-Billing Chamba Chail Chitkul Churdhar Sanctuary Dalhousie Dharamkot Dharamsala Haripurdhar Joginder agar Kalpa Kangra Kasauli Keylong Khajjiar Kiarighat Kufri Kullu McLeod Ganj Manali Mashobra Close to Palampur Ponta Sahib Rekong Peo Rewalsar Sarahan Sangla Sundar Nagar Shimla Solan Thaneek Pura Jammu and Kashmir Bhaderwah Patnitop Aru valley Gulmarg Pahalgam Srinagar Yusmarg Sonamarg Leh Jharkhand Hazaribagh Ranchi Netarhat

Karnataka Agumbe Manipal Kodachadri Sagara Talaguppa Biligiriranga Hills Chikmagalur Kemmangundi Kudremukh Madikeri Nagarhole Somwarpet Virajpet Nandi Hills Kollur Male Mahadeshwara Hills Kerala Ayyampuzha Kodanad Kuttampuzha Malayattur Thattekkad Devikulam Munnar Mattupetty Chinna canal Ramakkalmedu Nedumkandam Udumbanchola Painavu Kumily Thekkady Kuttikkanam Peermade Vagamon Aralam Iritty Kanjirakolly Paithalmala Ranipuram Aryankavu Kulathupuzha Thenmala Kottancheri Hills Mundakayam Poonjar Kodencheri Peruvannamuzhi Thamarassery Thiruvambadi Thusharagiri Vellarimala Nilambur Agali Nelliampathi Charalkunnu Chittar Gavi Maniyar Sea cathode Ponmudi Vithura Athirapally Malaccappara Vazhachal Vettilappara Kalpetta Lakkidi Mananthavady Muthanga Sultan Bathery Thirunelli Vythiri Agastya Malai Parambikulam

Madhya Pradesh Pachmarhi Amarkantak Shivpuri Kundeshwar Maharashtra Amboli Chikhaldara Igatpuri Jawhar Karjat Khandala Lavasa Lonavla Mahabaleshwar Matheran Panchgani Panhala Toranmal Malshej Ghat Bhandardara Meghalaya Cherrapunji Jowai Shillong Mizoram Aizawl Lunglei Champhai Hmuifang Reiek Nagaland Pfutsero Odisha Daringbadi Koraput Punjab Pathankot Rajasthan Mount Abu Kumbhal Ghadh Sikkim Gangtok Gyalshing Laughter Namchi Pelling Rangpo Yuksom Zuluk Nathu La Enchey Monastery Tashi view point Ganesh tok Yumthang Valley Guru-Dongmar Lake Rabdentse Ruins Soreng Phensang Monastery Phodong Monastery Tashiding Monastery Samdruptse Buddha Park Tamil Nadu Coonoor Javadi Hills Kodaikanal Kolli Hills Kotagiri Megamalai Sirumalai Ooty Topslip or Anaimali Hills Valparai Yelagiri Yercaud Sathuragiri Manjolai Estate Nalumukku Estate Kurangani Hills Kolukkumalai

Uttarakhand Almora Askot Auli Badrinath Bageshwar Berinag Bhimtal Binsar Chamoli Champawat Chaukori Chopta Dehradun Didihat Dhanaulti Gangolihat Garhwal Jyotirmath Kausani Kedarnath Landour Haridwar Lansdowne Lohaghat Mukteshwar Munsiyari Masuri Nainital Nanda Devi Naukuchia Valley Pauri Pithoragarh Tarkeshwar Mahadev Rishikesh Rudraprayag Uttarkashi Marchula Ranikhet Kanatal Pangot Abbott Mount Bhowali Chakrata Dharchula Dwarahat Gwaldam Jeolikot Harsil Khirsu Patal Bhuvaneshwar Ramgarh Sattal New Tehri Rudrapur Jageshwar Gopeshwar Kartik Swami Temple Gangotri Yamunotri Hemkund Jagtoli West Bengal Darjeeling Kalimpong Course song Mirik lava Loleygaon Rishyap Joychandi Pahar Ayodhha

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  Landscape in the Araku Valley, Andhra Pradesh

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  Tawang , Arunachal Pradesh

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  Mountain landscape at Dharamsala , Himachal Pradesh

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  Landscape at Keylong , Himachal Pradesh

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  Khajjiar, Himachal Pradesh

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  Srinagar , Jammu and Kashmir (Union Territory)

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  Biligiriranga Hills, Karnataka

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  Landscape near Munnar , Kerala

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  Western Ghats at Lonavla , Maharashtra

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  Mahodand Lake in the Kalam Valley, Pakistan

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  Matiltan in the Kalam Valley, Pakistan

literature

• Dane Kennedy: The Magic Mountains. Hill Stations and the British Raj. University of California Press, Berkeley, California 1996.

Web links

Commons : Hill stations  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• 52 Hill Stations in India - Photos + Info (English)
• 80 Hill Stations in India - Photos + Info (English)

References and comments

1. ^ Journal of Economic Geography: Social geography taking into account trade and transport geography , Volume 17, Pick-Verlag, 1973, p. 41