Word: ugyen
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...rule, got too lazy to hunt for a new Raja. The government was taken over by a local governor, the Tongsa Penlop, a fighting politician who got himself elected Gyalpo (i.e., King) of the Land of the Thunder-dragon. Knighted by the British, who understood such ambition, Sir Ugyen Wangchuk ruled for 19 years and died in 1926. He was succeeded...