Word: sikkim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cailing has persisted. Next year, Smith will use a Rockefeller fellowship to travel to Sikkim, a tiny nation north of India, where he will teach science and mathematics to local schoolchildren. "It's a small school, akin to our little red school house," Smith says. He will live isolated in the rural countryside, without heat or hot water...
...most inhabited regions on earth, with a combined population now 100 times that of Nepal's scanty 12 million. The Nepalese people are only too conscious of the political tightwire act that has preserved their sovereignty all this time: they need only point to India's annexation of Sikkim in 1975 and the recent Soviet takeover of Afghanistan to show what has happened to their neighbors who have lost their balance...