Author of The Vedic People (Orient BlackSwan), English Education in India, Sanskrit & British Empire, Science and the British Empire (Routledge) and Astronomy in India (INSA)
Neither tradition, nor any documentation links Shimla with any deity. The imagined association is a back-formation and a mindless exercise in Sanskritisation. https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/weekly-pullouts/himachal-tribune/renaming-shimla-mocking-history/674135.html
Rajesh Kochhar (For details and referencing please see Kochhar, Rajesh (2008) Seductive orientalism: English education and modern science in colonial India, Social Scientist, 26, pp. 45-63. Kochhar, Rajesh (2008) …
Simla finds first mention in passing in colonial records in 1816. At the time the area conjointly belonged to two princely states. The first permanent European structure, a residential building, was…
Rajesh Kochhar “If it be the glory of England that, owing to her maritime exploration, the sun never sets on her dominions, it may be permitted to Englishmen to recall…