Darjeeling is a popular hill station situated in the Indian state of West Bengal. It will best Darjeeling Hill Station Tour. The history of Darjeeling seemed to have begun with the establishment of a hill station by the British East India Company in 1835. Before that the region was under Sikkim ruler, who after deal with Company gave them permission to develop sanatorium for its soldier. The British ruled Darjeeling under the law applicable normally to the less privileged and economically less developed districts of the country. When the Bengal was divided into the eastern and western parts in 1905, Darjeeling was brought under the jurisdiction of the province of East Bengal and Assam.