SHIMLA
A flat green ground used for polo historically, now largely under Army control with restricted access — not worth the detour unless you have a specific reason to go.
Annandale's valley was named in the early 1830s, according to local tradition, either after Anna, an early explorer's romantic interest, or after the Annandale valley in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, home region of many British officers stationed here. Under Lord William Beresford, Military Secretary to Viceroy Lord Dufferin, the ground was developed with funding partly contributed by Indian maharajas into a polo field and cricket pavilion, hosting gymkhanas, dog shows, and fancy fairs (the first held in 1839) as the social heart of colonial recreation. Post-independence it passed to Indian Army control, which established a war museum on its periphery in 2006.
