Simla: The Summer Capital of British India

Raaja Bhasin’s recreation of the life and times of the British summer capital reveals that the insulated and rather fantastic world that they created was the inevitable product of a ruling elite that sought to create a microcosm of “home” in an alien land, drawing comfort from its created familiarities and frivolities. Simla was where the British ran away from India and its burdens, and really let their hair down.

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