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In addition to rice, [5] other cereal crops cultivated in Sikkim include wheat, maize, barley, and millet. Potatoes, ginger, oranges, tea, and cardamom are also cultivated. [6] [7] Sikkim produces the most cardamom [8] of any Indian state, about 4200 tons annually. [9] Vegetables commonly grown include tomatoes, broccoli, and iskus. [10]
Sikkim (/ ˈ s ɪ k ɪ m / SIK-im; Nepali:) is a state in northeastern India. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the north and northeast, Bhutan in the east, Koshi Province of Nepal in the west, and West Bengal in the south. Sikkim is also close to the Siliguri Corridor, which borders Bangladesh.
Butter tea – a drink of the people in the Himalayan regions of Nepal, Bhutan, India (particularly in Ladakh, Sikkim) and, most famously, Tibet. Traditionally, it is made from tea leaves, yak butter, water, and salt, [8] although butter made from cow's milk is increasingly used, given its wider availability and lower cost. Yak butter tea has ...
List of governors of Sikkim # Name Portrait Took office Left office Term in Office Home State Appointed by 1. B. B. Lal: 18 May 1975 9 January 1981 5 years, 236 days Not Known Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed: 2. Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan: 10 January 1981 17 June 1984 3 years, 159 days Maharashtra: Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy: 3. Kona Prabhakar Rao: 18 June 1984 30 ...
The Kingdom of Sikkim (Classical Tibetan and Sikkimese: འབྲས་ལྗོངས།, Drenjong, Dzongkha: སི་ཀིམ་རྒྱལ་ཁབ།, Sikimr Gyalkhab) officially Dremoshong (Classical Tibetan and Sikkimese: འབྲས་མོ་གཤོངས།) until the 1800s, was a hereditary monarchy in the Eastern Himalayas ...
Statue of Padmasambhava or Guru Rinpoche Tsuklakhang Palace. From 1642 to 1975, Sikkim was ruled by the Namgyal Monarchy (also called the Chogyal Monarchy), founded by Phuntsog Namgyal, the fifth-generation descendant of Guru Tashi, a prince of the Minyak House who came to Sikkim from the Kham province of Tibet. [3]
Nepali is the lingua franca of Sikkim, while Sikkimese (Bhutia) and Lepcha are spoken in certain areas. [14] English is also spoken and understood in most of Sikkim. Other languages include Dzongkha, Groma, Hindi, Majhi, Majhwar, Thulung, Tibetan, and Yakkha. [15] Nepali is the lingua franca of Sikkim while Bhutia and Lepcha are spoken in ...
A popular vote for Sikkim to join the Indian Union failed and Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru agreed to a special protectorate status for Sikkim. Sikkim was to be a tributary of India, in which India controlled its external defence, diplomacy and communication. A state council was established in 1953 to allow for the constitutional ...