1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
Contents
Hills in the Colonial Imagination -- The Indigenous Vision -- Acquiring the Station: Political Dynamics -- Building the Station: The Early Years -- Organization of Space: The Imperial Spectacle -- Reordering the Space: A Colonial Metropolis -- Hygeia, Disease, Municipal Order: A Paradox in the Dell -- Social Life in the Hills: Institutionalization of Leisure -- Reproduction of Imperial Ethics: Novitiate in the Hills
Summary
A large number of hill stations were developed by the British in the Indian colony and these were chosen as the summer capitals and seats of administrative authority of the Raj. This work looks at the way the Empire was built in the hills through the sites of the church, schools, and sport activities to imitate the lifestyle of the British
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 22, 2017)
