Ethnic and linguistic descriptions

Mussoorie is in the Garhwal hills—the local farmers are Garhwalis. They speak a dialect of Hindi (distant enough to usually be called a distinct language). But the townspeople and school employees are mostly immigrants from the lowlands, mostly Hindi speakers here for the commercial opportunities in this resort area. Hinduism is dominant here, but there’s a notable minority of muslims (a couple of mosques – the tailors tend to be muslim); and a group of Tibetan refugees who have settled here. And because it was a “hill station” established by the British, there are probably 6 or 7 churches remaining...the single roman catholic church was one of the oldest church buildings, but it's now defunct, though there are two parochial schools still thriving.