A Hill Station Meticulously Recorded

Ootacamund A History

Frederick Price

Rupa

xvi+569 pages/Rs 295

Charing Cross was always a rather grand name for the road junction in Ootacamund where a moustachioed traffic policeman in baggy trousers directed the traffic. Why this undistinguished spot had been named after a London railway station was always a mystery but it wasn