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Darjeeling (City)

 Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Scope Note: Town acquired from Raja of Sikkim & developed as sanatorium for English soldiers 1835; name means "place of the thunderbolt"; noted for Mount Everest, zoo, museum of natural history, racecourse & hospitals; connected by air to Calcutta.

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