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The success of the
hill stations of Western India had induced the Government to do
something for the citizens of Calcutta and the Bengal Presidency. An
experimental station for ailing troops was opened at Cherrapunji in
Assam, but it proved to be a wash-out-literally- as it turned out to
be one of the wettest places in the world. But the government
continued to look for an alternative place, and asked G.W.A.Lloyd to
follow up the recommendation of J.W.Grant, the Commercial Resident
at Malda, an enthusiastic explorer of the Himalayan foothills. The
place Llyod and Grant inspected in 1829 was an old and deserted
Gurkha military station 'Dorjeeling' or 'Darjeeling'.
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