Thandiani
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History
Thandiani was originally granted as a lease to some members of the Battye family[3] in British India, who were Christian missionaries and also worked in the British civil service and military.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The Battyes subsequently gave the site to the Anglican church, where a sanatorium and various other facilities were set up during the British rule. It also contained some private European houses, a camping ground, a small bazaar, and a small seasonal church of Francis Xavier in the Wilderness which were occupied only during the summer months.[4]
Forests and wildlife
The mountains around Thandiani are more thickly forested than most other hill stations in the area, which have undergone more deforestation. The local wildlife includes leopards, monkeys, several kinds of pheasants and the rarer flying squirrel and pine marten.[5]
2005 earthquake
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References
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- ↑ See 'Early Leases in the Hazara' in Major Wace's Full and Permanent Settlement Report of the Hazara District 1868-1874, Annex 1. pub. 1874, pp.379-380
- ↑ Thandiani - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 23, p. 304
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