Word: sikkim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indians, who are no longer openly cordial to Peking but are still determined to be correct, are disturbed by the rumblings to the north. They fear that if the Reds rout the tribesmen, the Khambas might seek refuge in India or the buffer states of Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan between India and China, providing China with a pretext for extending the fighting beyond Tibet into areas that Peking already claims as Chinese. Or, if the revolt spreads to include other Tibetans, the Reds might be driven to pouring in troops to put down the uprising, and force through the Communization...
...them, the reigning Lieutenant Grand Master, was far too busy to see Sack. In Monaco, Sack missed Prince Rainier, but everywhere else he hobnobbed with the princes, seneschals, presidents, captains regent, sheiks, nawabs, rahs and dewans of postage-stamp domains from Sark in the English Channel to Sikkim on the edge of Tibet. The Nawab of Amb, a country that is gradually being swallowed up by Pakistan, told Sack of his philanthropies (he had just given 60?to a beggar, $3.60 to an orphanage). Then, too, his son, the Nawab Zada, has had difficulties (excessive wenching and cheating on exams...
...Tashi Namgyal, is the eleventh in a line of consecrated Lama rulers. He leaves politics to others. A shy, untraveled man with a pinched face and faint mustache, a delicate porcelain figurine who goes about in green-tinted glasses, Tibetan cap and a golden bakkhu (robe), the Maharajah paints Sikkim's misty peaks and glaciers in a surprisingly abstract style. Recently he had a "vision" of the Abominable Snowman, put him on canvas as a skinny, jet-black creature with a red face, carrying a naked pink lady across the peaks of the Himalayas. When he is not painting...
...Rustomji, spent 18 years in Britain, but has become so attached to his work that he walks around Sikkimese style in a gleaming, embroidered bakkhu with a Great Dane said by the Sikkimese to be a reincarnation of Albert Einstein. The dewan considers his main task to be "the Sikkimization" of Sikkim-the attempt to preserve Sikkim's culture and identity from too much Tibetan or Chinese influence. The Indians are also pushing a $7,000,000 seven-year plan to modernize Sikkim's covered-wagon transport, build schools and roads...
...dewan worries about Sikkimese students who copy "some cute design" from an Indian magazine. "We must watch very carefully," he warns. Both he and the crown prince are aware of ushering in the 20th century too rapidly. When Gangtok's first movie house opened a few years back, Sikkim's young people took one look and promptly went out and engaged in drunken brawls and prostitution. The movie was closed down...