About the Book: Darjeeling District Gazetteer
Darjeeling conjure up the image of snow-clad Himalayan peaks, Buddhist
monasteries people with yellow-robed monks, and rush of summer tourists. But
there s more in Darjeeling than meets the eye. The geography, fauna and flora,
inhabitants, rites, rituals and festivals form a mosaic of great interest. Named
after the Buddhist monastery of 'Darjeeling or the 'place of thunderbolt, this
district forms an irregular triangle 1164 square miles in area, its base resting
on Sikkim in the north while its apex stretches into West Bengal in the south.
It is demarcated from Nepal in the west by the Singania mountain chain and