ABOUT THE BOOK
Explore this picturesque town from its colonial architectural remnants to the
famous Mall. As the �summer capital� of the British, Shimla saw remarkable
building activity during the colonial era, and some of the finest structures of
that time still stand over its seven hills. Abundant specimens of the Alpine and
the Swiss Bavarian chalets, the Norman baronial style and neo-Gothic structures
validate its likeness to a European town. The famous Mall with its resemblance
to an English home county�s marketplace has, perhaps, one of the longest
stretches of pedestrian shopping anywhere in the world; and the town of Shimla
also holds what may well be