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Dehra Dun

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Deh·ra Dun  (dr dn)
A city of northern India north-northeast of Delhi. It is a trade center and has a forestry college. Population: 474,000.


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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.
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.
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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