DHARMSALA  , a See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

hill-station and See also:

• SANATORIUM (a modern Latinism, formed from sanare, to cure, restore to health, sanus, whole, healthy, well; often wrongly spelled sanatarium or sanitarium)

sanatorium of the See also:

• PUNJAB

Punjab, See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, situated on a See also:

• SPUR (A.S. spura, spora, related to spornan, spurnan, to kick, spurn; cf. M.H.G. sporn, mod. Ger. Sporn)

spur of the Dhaola See also:

• DHAR

Dhar, 16 m . N.E. of See also:

• KANGRA

Kangra See also:

• TOWN

town, at an See also:

• ELEVATION

elevation of some 6000 ft . Pop . (1901) 6971 . The scenery of Dharmsala is of See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar grandeur . The spur on which it stands is thickly wooded with See also:

• OAK (O. Eng., (lc)

oak and other trees; behind it the See also:

• PINE (Lat. Pinus, Gr. srlrur)

pine-clad slopes of the See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain See also:

• TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

tower towards the jagged peaks of the higher range, See also:

• SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

snow-clad for See also:

• HALF

half the See also:

• YEAR

year; while below stretches the luxuriant cultivation of the Kangra valley . In 1855 Dharmsala was made the headquarters of the Kangra See also:

• DISTRICT

district of the Punjab in See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of Kangra, and became the centre of a See also:

• EUROPEAN

European See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement and See also:

• CANTONMENT (Fr. cantonnement, from cantonner, to quarter; Ger. Ortsunterkunft or Quartier)

cantonment, largely occupied by See also:

• GURKHA (pronounced goorka; from Sans. gau, a cow, and raks, to protect)

Gurkha regiments . The station was destroyed by the See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth-quake of See also:

• APRIL

April 1905, in which 1625 persons, including 25 Europeans and 112 of the Gurkha See also:

• GARRISON
• GARRISON, WILLIAM LLOYD (1805-1879)

garrison, perished (Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1908) .