Darjeeling
or DARJILING, a district of India, in the extreme N. of the lieutenant-governorship of Bengal; division of Cooch-Behar; area, 1,234 square miles. Tea, coffee, cinchona, and cotton are cultivated more or less, and the cultivation of the tea-plant and the making of tea is now the staple industry. Pop. about 250,000. DARJEELING, the chief town in the district, is a sanatory station than 36 miles from the plains stands at for British troops, and though little more an elevation of 7,400 feet above sea-level, side, in a bleak but healthy situation. on a ridge with deep on either There is a residence of the lieutenant- Pop. about 17,000, much increased in the governor, barracks, a sanitarium, etc. hot weather.