Dehradun
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| State : | Uttarakhand | ||
| District : | Dehradun | ||
| Sub-district : | Dehradun | ||
| Location : | 30 ° 20 ' N , 78 ° 3' E | ||
| Height : | 674 m | ||
| Area : | 52 km² | ||
| Residents : | 569,578 (2011) | ||
| Population density : | 10,953 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Website : | nagarnigamdehradun.com | ||
Dehradun ( Hindi : देहरादून , Dehrādūn ; previously also anglicised Dehra Doon ) has been the provisional capital of the state of Uttarakhand in India since November 2000 .
The city is the seat of numerous national institutes and organizations. The population is around 570,000 (2011 census).
Dehradun is also the name of the district of the same name , which, including the city, covers an area of 3088 km² with 1,025,680 inhabitants.
history
Dehradun used to be the capital of Garhwal . The city was a target of British troops in the Gurkha Wars from 1814. At that time, the Nepalese control in the region was ended.
In Dehradun there was an internment camp for members of enemy states ( enemy alien , enemy foreigner) during World War II . Among other things, the participants of the German Nanga Parbat expedition of 1939 were interned there: Heinrich Harrer and Peter Aufschnaiter , Lutz Chicken and Hans Lobenhoffer. In his book Seven Years in Tibet, Heinrich Harrer mentions Rolf Magener , Heins von Have , Bruno Treipel, Hans Kopp, Sattler and the Italian Marchese as other inmates of the camp . The ophthalmologist Alfred Leber , the dancer Alexander von Swaine , the Indologist Walther Eidlitz , the German-born Buddhists Lama Anagarika Govinda , Nyanatiloka and Nyanaponika and the Jesuit father Felix zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1907-1986) were interned there for years . Harrer and Aufschnaiter managed to escape to Tibet on April 29, 1944 .
sons and daughters of the town
- Abhinav Bindra (born September 28, 1982), marksman
- Ramachandra Guha (born April 29, 1958), historian and writer
- Monisha Kaltenborn (born May 10, 1971), Austrian lawyer, motorsport official and racing team owner
- Sardar Mohammed Aziz Khan (1875–1933), diplomat
- Sardar Shah Mahmud Khan (1887–1959), politician
- Shriya Saran (born September 11, 1982), actress
- Mohammed Nadir Shah (1883–1933), King of Afghanistan
- Vandana Shiva (born November 5, 1952), physicist
- Himani Shivpuri (born October 24, 1960), actress
- Meenakshi Thapar (1984–2012), actress
- Sardar Wali (1888–1977), ambassador and minister
Climate table
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Dehradun
Source: India Meteorological Department
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.census2011.co.in
- ^ Website with a mention of Prince zu Löwenstein, from: Paul von Tucher: German Missions in British India , 1980
