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'''ALMORA''',
a
town
and
district
of
British
India,
the
chief town
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01.djvu"
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to="760"
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and administrative headquarters of the Kumaon division of
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the United Provinces, situated on a mountain-ridge of the
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Himalayas 5494 ft. above the sea. Pop. (1901) 8596. The
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town has a college called after Sir Henry Ramsay; a government
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high school; a Christian girls' school; and a large cantonment.
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The town was captured by the Gurkhas in 1790, who constructed
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a fort on the eastern extremity of the ridge. Another citadel,
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Fort Moira, is situated on the other extremity of the ridge.
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Almora is also celebrated as the scene of the British victory
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which terminated the war with Nepal in April 1815, and which
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resulted in the evacuation of Kumaon by the Gurkhas and the
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annexation of the province by the British.
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The {{sc|District of Almora}} was constituted in 1891, together
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with Naini Tal, by a redistribution of the two former districts of
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Kumaon and the Tarai. It lies among the mountains of Kumaon,
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between the upper waters of the Ganges and the Gogra, here
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called the Kali. Area, 5419 sq. m.; pop. (1901) 465,893, showing
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an increase of 13% during the decade. Tea is grown in the
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district, which includes the military sanatorium of Ranikhet.
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The nearest railway via Naini Tal is the extension of the Oudh
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and Rohilkhand line from near Bareilly to Kathgodam.
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