A grand Scottish baronial-style mansion built as the residence of British India's viceroys, where major decisions including the 1945 Shimla Conference on Indian independence were debated before it became a research institute.
Did you know? The Shimla Conference of 1945, a critical failed attempt to agree on a framework for Indian independence, was held inside this building, meaning some of the last real chances to negotiate a different path to Partition played out in these rooms.
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