Place · colonial hill station · India
Mussoorie
Also known as Mansoori
Mussoorie, at about 2,000 metres on the first ridge of the Garhwal Himalaya overlooking the Doon Valley, was founded in 1823 by Captain Frederick Young of the Nasiri (Gurkha) Regiment as a hunting lodge at Camel's Back; the East India Company turned it into a sanatorium and summer station by the 1830s. The town is best known for Woodstock School (1854, India's oldest continuous residential school), the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (where every IAS and allied-service officer trains), the Mall Road and library bazaar, and as the base of the Doon Valley literary set — Ruskin Bond has lived here since 1963.
- Function
- Authority & administration
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 30.460, 78.066
Connections (2)
- Site withinLandour
Landour sits on the ridge about three kilometres above and to the east of Mussoorie, part of the greater Mussoorie Municipal Board. The two were administered together as a single hill-station cantonment from 1827; the Landour cemetery and the Landour Language School both have Mussoorie postal addresses.
- Site withinHappy Valley, Mussoorie
Happy Valley is a Mussoorie suburb on the western shoulder of the Mussoorie ridge, named for the Birla family's summer house that became the Dalai Lama's first Indian residence in 1959. The Shedup Choepelling monastery and the Tibetan Homes Foundation sit here; the valley has been Mussoorie's Tibetan quarter for sixty-five years.
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