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Sikkim had been a protectorate of India during the British colonial rule since the 19th century. The arrangement was continued after India's independence through a treaty in 1950, by which India assumed responsibility for communications, defence and foreign affairs, as well as the "territorial integrity" of Sikkim.
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 ...
16 May - Sikkim became the 22nd state of India and its 200,000 residents became citizens, as Indian President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed an order ratifying an amendment to the nation's constitution. Sikkimese voters had overwhelmingly approved annexation on 14 April and India's Parliament had approved statehood the same month. [3]
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 which existed from 1642 to 16 May 1975, when it was ...
Annexation, [1] in international law, is the forcible acquisition and assertion of legal title over one state's territory by another state, usually following military occupation of the territory. [2] In current international law, it is generally held to be an illegal act. [ 3 ]
The Sikkim National Congress merged with India's Congress Party in the 1970s following Sikkim's annexation by India. Dorjee also formed the Sikkim Council to promote "communal harmony." [4] Dorjee was considered to be a key figure in the 1975 union of Sikkim with India. [2]
The book provides the historical account of Sikkim's annexation by India, its last king Palden Thondup Namgyal and his American wife Hope Cooke. [2] Over the course of ten chapters, Duff explores the politics, plots, and broader regional and political forces that led to the end of the 333-year-long rule of the Chogyals.
King and Queen of Sikkim and their daughter watch birthday celebrations, Gangtok, Sikkim. At the same time, Sikkim was under strain due to annexation pressures from India. Crowds marched on the palace against the monarchy. [15] Cooke's husband was deposed on April 10, 1975 and confined to his palace under house arrest. [16] The couple soon ...