Book 2015

Sikkim

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Publisher: Birlinn
Language: English
Published: 2015

Politics and government
Kings and rulers
Foreign relations
History

The true story of Sikkim, a tiny Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas that survived the end of the British Empire in India only to be annexed by its neighbour in 1975. Based on interviews, archive research, and the retracing of a journey Andrew Duff's grandfather made in 1922.