in Landour and is the next door neighbour to Ruskin Bond. Another famous resident of this quaint town is the Indian actor Victor Banerjee. Landour was home in the 1850s and 1860s to the multi-talented John Lang, seen as the "first Australian novelist". Lang's 1864 grave was rediscovered by Ruskin Bond in Camel's Back Cemetery in Mussoorie and was restored by the Australian High Commission in Delhi (which also has a bolthole nearby). Other bohemians who call Mussoorie (but not Landour) home are the writer Bill Aitken and the husband-wife travel-writing team of Hugh and Colleen Gantzer. And then there is Allan Sealy of Trotter-Nama fame, down in the valley in Dehradun. And finally, Landour was the unlikely birthplace in 1918 of John Birch, in whose name the controversial arch-conservative John Birch Society would be founded in America, after his murder in China at the hand of Communists. Landour has, in large part, survived "untouched" thanks to the military presence and also due to its small size. Sources Landour Days: A Writer's Journal by Ruskin Bond. Penguin, 2002. . Resorts of the Raj, by Vikram Bhatt (1998). Hill Stations of India, by Gillian Wright (1991). Mussoorie: Jewel of the Hills, by Ruskin Bond (1996). Mussoorie & Landour: Days of Wine and Roses, by Ruskin Bond (1992). Birding in the Doon Valley, by Nikhil Devasar, S.B. Dutta & Santanu Sarkar [Editor] (2012). Plain Tales from the Raj, by Charles Allen (1975). Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj (1996). All the Way to Heaven: An American Boyhood in the Himalaya, by Stephen Alter (1998). Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India, by Lawrence James (2000). Memsahibs: The Women of Victorian India, by Pat Barr (1976). Footloose in the Himalayas, by Bill Aitken (2003). Touching Upon the Himalaya, by Bill Aitken & Geeta Kapadia (2004). Stones of Empire, by Jan Morris (1995). India Unveiled, by Bob Arnett (2006). Knowing Dil Das, by Joe Alter (1999). The Great Hill Stations of Asia, by Barbara Crossette (1999). Hill Resorts of the U.P. Himalaya, by Nutan Tyagi (1991). Farewell the Winterline, by Stan Brush (2002). References Cities and towns in Dehradun district Hill stations in Uttarakhand Geography of Dehradun Cantonments of India Cantonments of British India 1827 establishments in British India