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Every place has a sound. Be it the whistle of the
north wind from the snowy Himalayan heights or
the rustle of the forest in the wafting breeze,
that gently rises from the Gangetic plains. But
again, the turning wheels of time have often
changed the sound of the spoken word. Here the
sound of Bineshwar changed to Binsar during
the British administration of the colonial era.
A revered land of sacred forests since times
immemorial, here is where the Saptrishis, the
seven sages after whom the celestial
constellation is named, meditated in the densely
forested high mountain ravines, unconsciously
burying deep a serenity that one can feel even
today. Maybe thats what pulled Sir Henry
Ramsay, the legendary commissioner of Kumaon, to
Binsar, a place and its people he called his
own. He covered trails, traversed uneven grounds
in search of flawlessness and when the stories of
Binsars beauty reached his ears, he finally
stood there in stunned silence humbled by the
breathtaking views of an unbroken 500 kms sweep
of Himalayan peaks, stretching from Kedarnath in
the West to Nepal and Tibet ranges in the East.
With the mother goddess of Uttarakhand, Nanda
Devi, at the centre of this awe inspiring
northern skyline, he knew his heart was
blissfully stolen forever! Considered among the
architects of British Kumaon, Ramsay carved out
six estates of virgin forest for his top
officials, which included the District Collector,
Superintendent of Police, Army Commandant and a
Methodist missionary. During the hot summer
months, the administrative headquarters were
shifted from Almora to Binsar and the Union Jack
would flutter from a flag post on the highest
peak, named Jhandi Dhar. Our estate belonged to
a succession of District Collectors who would
ride to work on horseback and hold mobile courts
in the villages to dispense justice and attend to
grievances. The ladies would occupy themselves
with growing English flowers like roses and
daffodils, having garden parties and ordering
food and drink from Almora. For close to a
century, the British maintained a lavish
lifestyle on their estates, tended to by armies
of servants at their beck and call.
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