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Dehradun
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Dehradun (dâr`ədn), city (1991 pop. 270,000), capital of Uttaranchal state, N central India. It is a rail terminus from the S for Mussoorie, a summer hill resort. Tea processing is the main industry. In Dehradun is the Indian military academy and an institute for forestry research, with an associated museum and botanical garden. The temple (1699) of Ram Rai, founder of the Hindu Udasi sect of ascetics, is the city's most notable historical building.


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Daily trains run to Dehra Dun, in the foothills of the Himalayas, and from there it's a quick, if hair-raising, taxi ride to Mussoorie, where the British Raj summered in an effort to get away from the heat and disease of the plains.
India diary: a green tour of the subcontinent. (Going Green) by Motavalli, Jim / E
Azmi of the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology in Dehra Dun, India, has found shelly fossils of animals in limestone above the sandstone containing the worm impressions.
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Shiva is a feminist-ecologist who worked first in Bangalore, now in Dehra Dun, and is an analyst close to NGOs such as the Third World Network.
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