Word: sikkim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tradition includes an honor guard of silk-uniformed soldiers, each carrying two swords and a shield of buffalo hide, Sir Jigme's 24-year-old son, Jigme Dorji, was installed as the third Gyalpo of Thunder-dragon. Two visitors-the eldest son of the Maharaja of neighboring Sikkim and an Indian political agent-were invited over the mountains to see the show. They were the only outsiders present...
India's Prime Minister Nehru convinced the people in remote Gangtok, capital of the northern province of Sikkim, that he really wanted to see them. He arrived for a visit grim and weary after a 27-mile pony ride, which included crossing a 15,000-foot Himalayan pass on the old trade route to Tibet...
...what the Indian government representative in Tibet described as "an official tour." Indian newspapers reported that the Lama was planning to set up a new seat of government at Yatung, a town in the Chumbi valley just across the Himalayan divide separating Tibet from the Indian-protected state of Sikkim...