Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "The Doon School" in English language version.
Lord and Lady Mountbatten visit Dehra Dun...They visited the Indian Military Academy, the Royal Indian Military College, the Doon School and St. Dunstan's Training Centre for the Indian War-Blinded.
The food and linen was the responsibility of the Dame (Matron)
Letter to John Martyn, 18.5.1945: Salim Ali came through here last week on his way to Lake Mansarovar. He was kept waiting by Donaldson for hours on his veranda...Why do people do such bloody things?
Since its inception, the School adopted strictly non-denominational prayers and hymns and does not serve beef and pork. In fact the School adopted 'Jana Gana Mana' as its School song in 1935 well before it became National Anthem in 1947.
p.290, Much of the credit for early interest in mountaineering among Indians goes to the Doon School, largely because of some distinguished British mountaineers on its staff like J.A.K. Martyn, J.T.M. Gibson, R.L. Holdsworth...In 1951, Gurdial Singh of the Doon School climbed the 7,120 metres high Trisul. This was the first Indian summit.
The peak of Kamet was attempted several times and finally in 1931 Frank Smythe and Eric Shipton reached the summit along with some others. R.L. Holdsworth, who was with them, smoked a pipe on the summit, which I believe still remains a height record for smokers.
Well I don't know for sure. He used to be in Doon School...'I was in the first eleven at the Doon School. My father, too, was a good player in school.
...as a boarder at the prestigious Doon School, known as "the Eton of India" on Dehradun. Whilst at school, Seth encountered abuse and bullying from many of his fellow classmates, an experience that he later evokes by the character Tapan, the youngest of the Chaterjees, in A Suitable Boy.
Chekhov and Zulu became Star Trek devotees while still in school in India...Significantly, they are enrolled in the Doon School, an elite British-style academy established in the waning years of British Raj.
It was to Garhwal. Back to Bandar Punch, "the Doon School mountain," with my old friend Mr Gibson.
William and Jai did not trail me to this place, as it was a little lowbrow for them (William being Swiss and Jai being Doon School).
Fresh out of the Doon School and on his way to Stephens to read English literature, I.P. was full of natural intellectual curiosity
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