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 Mussoorie

Mussoorie is a slope station and a city board in the Dehradun region of the Indian territory of Uttarakhand. It is around 35 kilometers (22 mi) from the state capital of Dehradun and 290 km (180 mi) north of the public capital of New Delhi. The slope station is in the lower regions of the Garhwal Himalayan reach. The bordering town of Landour, which incorporates a military cantonment, is viewed as a component of "more noteworthy Mussoorie", similar to the municipalities of Barlowganj and Jharipani. 

Mussoorie is at a normal height of 2,005 meters (6,578 ft). Toward the upper east are the Himalayan snow ranges, and toward the south, the Doon Valley and Shiwalik ranges. The second most noteworthy point is the first Lal Tibba in Landour, with a tallness of more than 2,275 m (7,464 ft). Mussoorie is prominently known as The Queen of the Hills.

History

The name Mussoorie is regularly credited to an induction of mansūr, a bush which is native to the zone. The town is frequently alluded to as Mansuri by most Indians. 

In 1803 the Gorkhas under Umer Singh Thapa vanquished the Garhwal and the Dehra, whereby Mussoorie was set up. On 1 November 1814, a war broke out between the Gorkhas and the British. Dehradun and Mussoorie were emptied by the Gorkhas constantly 1815 and were added to the region of Saharanpur by 1819. 

Mussoorie as a retreat was set up in 1825 by Captain Young, a British military official. With Mr Shore, the inhabitant Superintendent of Revenues at Dehradun, he investigated the current site and mutually built a shooting lodge. He constructed a chasing lodge (shooting box) on the Camel's Back Road, and turned into a judge of Doon in 1823. He raised the main Gurkha Regiment and planted the principal potatoes in the valley. His residency in Mussoorie finished in 1844, after which he served in Dimapur and Darjeeling, later resigning as a General and getting back to Ireland. There are no remembrances to honor Young in Mussoorie. In any case, there is a Young Road in Dehradun on which ONGC's Tel Bhawan stands. 

In 1832, Mussoorie was the planned end of the Great Trigonometric Survey of India that started at the southern tip of the country. Albeit fruitless, the Surveyor General of India at that point, George Everest, needed the new office of the Survey of India to be situated in Mussoorie; a trade off area was Dehradun, where it remains. The very year the primary lager brewery at Mussoorie was set up by Sir Henry Bohle as "The Old Brewery". The distillery opened and shut twice before it was restored by Sir John Mackinnon as Mackinnon and Co. in 1850. 

By 1901 Mussoorie's populace had developed to 6,461, ascending to 15,000 in the late spring. Prior, Mussoorie was agreeable by street from Saharanpur, 58 miles (93 km) away. Openness got simpler in 1900 with the railroad coming to Dehradun, hence shortening the excursion to 21 miles (34 km).

By 1901 Mussoorie's populace had developed to 6,461, ascending to 15,000 in the mid year. Prior, Mussoorie was agreeable by street from Saharanpur, 58 miles (93 km) away. Availability got simpler in 1900 with the rail route coming to Dehradun, in this way shortening the excursion to 21 miles (34 km). 

The Nehru family, including Nehru's girl Indira (later Indira Gandhi) were successive guests to Mussoorie during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, and remained at the Savoy Hotel. They likewise invested energy in close by Dehradun, where Nehru's sister Vijayalakshmi Pandit eventually settled full-time. 

On 20 April 1959, during the 1959 Tibetan Rebellion, the fourteenth Dalai Lama took up home at Mussoorie, this until April 1960 when he moved to Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh, where the Central Tibetan Administration is today settled. 

The primary Tibetan school was set up in Mussoorie in 1960. Tibetans settled basically in Happy Valley. Today, around 5,000 Tibetans live in Mussoorie.

Climate

Mussoorie has a normal rise of around 2,005 meters (6,578 ft). The most elevated point is "Lal Tibba", at a tallness of around 2,275 m (7,464 ft), albeit the name Lal Tibba is presently likewise used to portray a post point, a short separation from the pinnacle. 

Mussoorie has a genuinely normal subtropical good country environment for the mid-height Himalaya. Summers are warm and wet, with July and August averaging around 660 millimeters (26 in) of downpour every month due to orographic lift of the very sodden monsoonal air. The pre-storm seasons in April and May is warm to extremely warm and for the most part dry and clear, offering approach to weighty precipitation from mid-June, while the post-rainstorm season is additionally dry and clear yet significantly cooler. In winter, precipitation is somewhat more regular than in the pre-and post-rainstorm seasons, and the overall climate cool and part of the way shady. Mussoorie as a rule gets a couple of spells of snowfall in December, January and February, albeit the quantity of blanketed days has descended lately because of a mix of nearby and worldwide components, for example, deforestation, development action and an unnatural weather change. Between October to February the town shows the uncommon "winterline" wonder.