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Description: | Photograph of the Viceregal Lodge, Shimla, from the Elgin Collection: 'Spring Tours 1894-98', taken in the 1890s. View looking north-east towards the Viceregal Lodge on the summit of the ridge at the left with Boileauganj Bazaar below. The Snowy Range is seen in the distance. The hill-station of Shimla, now the capital of the state of Himachal Pradesh, was a popular resort with British residents of India in the 1820s. It also became the Presidency's summer capital when the Governor-General began to take his administration with him to the hills to escape the intense heat of Calcutta. The Lodge situated on a hill with spectacular views was built for Viceroy Lord Dufferin in a grey stone in Elizabethan style, and completed in 1888. The Viceregal Lodge is now known as the Rashtrapati Niwas and used by the Institute of Advanced Study. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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