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Question
Hilly areas were distinctive features of colonial urban development. Why?
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Solution
- The British coming from a cool temperate climate, found the hill stations protective from hot weather and epidemics.
- So they built up the alternative capitals in cool areas.
- So highly hills areas were distinctive features of colonial urban development.
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