Nanital - Jim Corbett

Nainital (IPA: [nɛːniːtaːl] (About this soundlisten)) is a popular hill station in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is the judicial capital of Uttarakhand, the High Court of the state being located there, and is the headquarters of the Kumaon division as well as an eponymous district. It also houses the Governor of Uttarakhand,[3] who resides in the Raj Bhavan. Nainital was the summer capital[4] of the United Provinces. Jim Corbett was born of British ancestry in the town of Nainital in the Kumaon of the Himalaya (now in the Indian state of Uttarakhand). He grew up in a large family of sixteen children and was the eighth child of Christopher William Corbett and his wife Mary Jane (née Prussia) who had previously married Dr Charles James Doyle of Agra, who died at Etawah in 1857.[1] His parents had moved to Nainital in 1862, after Christopher Corbett had quit military service and been appointed the town's postmaster.[2] In winters the family used to move to the foothills, where they owned a cottage named "Arundel" in the village now known as Kaladhungi.