Word: wangchuk
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...Jigme Wangchuk. Three years ago, to insure a continuance of his privacy, Sir Jigme renewed an old treaty leaving all the foreign affairs of his country to India in exchange for a guarantee of sovereignty at home and 500,000 rupees a year. In March 1952, Sir Jigme died...
...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...