History
The British must be given credit for developing most of India's hill stations. They did to escape the blistering heat of the long Indian summer. Towering and as if blessing this land is the world's youngest and largest East to West mountain chain, known as the Himalayas Stretching some 2560 Kilometers in an arc across the top of the Indian subcontinent.
The British Raj, and in particular the British Indian Army, founded perhaps 50 of the 80-odd hill stations in the Indian subcontinent; the remainder were built by various Indian rulers over the centuries as places of leisure or even as permanent capitals.
Read more about this topic: List Of Hill Stations In India
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