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Unravelling Chinese link can Boost Tourism

April 19, 2014 by Admin Leave a Comment

  • Chinese prisoners played a role in what Nilgiri hills is today is hardly known
  • 1604: visit by first European from Portugal to Nilgiris. 1820: Colonial British rulers first allowed outside world to enter the area
  • Switzerland laid foundation of a hill railway. Post 1947: hydropower units set up by Canadians, first PSU established by French
  • Nilgiri Documentation Centre calls for exploring hill’s historical, heritage links this year keeping China in mind to boost tourism
  • In wake of II Opium War involving British rulers and Qing Dynastry in China, Chinese prisoners landed in Nilgiris in 1850
  • Chinese built Lawrence School at Lovedale, planted tea saplings, cultivated cinchona to combat malaria, only cinchona factory survives
  • Chinese prisoners after completing their prison terms at Naduvattam jail, settled down, took up dairy works and gardening
  • Chinese role in fighting malaria and laying foundation of commercial tea production is recalled.

Exams Perspective:

  1. Chinese Prisoners in Nilgiri
  2. Nilgiri
  3. Opium Wars
  4. Public Sector Undertaking (PSU)

Filed Under: Current Affairs, International Tagged With: Chinese Prisoners in Nilgiri, Nilgiri, Opium Wars, Public Sector Undertaking (PSU)

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