Renaming Shimla mocking history

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  

New Bengal social class under colonial auspices

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) …

The making of colonial Simla, 1815-1830: A Re-look

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…