Sikkim

by Andrew Duff

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  ARTICLES

  Academic

  Balicki-Denjongpa, A. ‘Princess Pema Tseuden of Sikkim (1924–2008)’ in Bulletin of Tibetology (Vol. 44, No. 1 & 2, 2008)

  Ganguly, S. ‘The Sino-Indian Border Talks, 1981–1989: A View from New Delhi’ in Asian Survey (Vol. 29, No. 12, December 1989)

  Gupta, R. ‘Sikkim: The Merger with India’ in Asian Survey (Vol. 15, No. 9, September 1975)

  Hiltz, J. ‘Constructing Sikkimese National Identity in the 1960s and 1970s’ in Bulletin of Tibetology (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2003)

  Lall, J. ‘Sikkim’ in J. S. Lall and A. D. Moddie (eds.) The Himalaya, aspects of change (Oxford University Press, 1981)

  Malone and Mukerjhee, ‘India and China: Conflict and Cooperation’ in Survival (Vol. 52, No. 1, Feb–Mar 2010)

  Mathou, T. ‘Tibet and its Neighbours: Moving Towards a New Chinese Strategy in the Himalayan Region’ in Asian Survey (Vol. 45, No. 4, Jul–Aug 2005)

  Maxwell, N. ‘Forty years of folly: What caused the Sino-Indian Border War and Why the Dispute is Unresolved’ in Critical Asian Studies (Vol. 35, No. 1, March 2003) pp. 99–112

  Mehta, V. ‘Royalty’ (Talk of the Town) in The New Yorker (3 October 1964), pp. 45–7

  Mehta, V. ‘A Reporter at Large: Indian Journal, VI – The Himalayas: Towards the Dead Land’ in The New Yorker (26 July 1969), pp. 40–8

  Rose, L. ‘India and Sikkim: Redefining the Relationship’ in Pacific Affairs (Vol. 42, No. 1, Spring 1969)

  Rose, L. ‘Modernizing a Traditional Administrative System’ in Fisher James F. (ed.), Himalayan Anthropology: The Indo-Tibetan Interface (Mounton Publishers, The Hague, 1978), pp. 205–26

  Rustomji, N. K. ‘Sikkim, Bhutan and India’s northeastern borderlands: problems of change’ in J. S. Lall and A. D. Moddie (eds) The Himalaya, aspects of change (Oxford University Press, 1981)

  Vandenhelsken, M. ‘Secularism and the Buddhist Monastery of Pemayangtse in Sikkim’ in Bulletin of Tibetology (May 2003)

  Vibha, A. ‘Roots and the Route of Secularism in Sikkim’in Economic and Political Weekly (Vol. 41, No. 38, 23–29 September 2006

  Newspaper and Magazines

  ‘Sikkim: Land of the Uphill Devils’, Time magazine (12 January 1959)

  ‘To be a Princess’, McCall’s magazine (September 1963)

  ‘Sikkim: Where There’s Hope’, Time magazine (29 March 1963)

  ‘A Queen Revisited’, Time magazine (29 March 1963)

  ‘Hope-la in Gangtok’, Time magazine (16 April 1965)

  ‘Sikkim: A Midget Awakes’ in Far Eastern Economic Review (21 October 1972)

  ‘Wary Chogyal’ in Far Eastern Economic Review (23 April 1973)

  ‘Alarum in Cloudland’, Time magazine (23 April 1973)

  ‘The Long Journey Home’ in Far Eastern Economic Review (23 April 1973)

  ‘Nominal Chogyal’ in Far Eastern Economic Review (21 May 1973)

  ‘Sikkim: Queen of the Mountain’, Newsweek (2 July 1973)

  ‘Ruler of Sikkim, Alone in Palace, Broods and Waits’, New York Times (23 April 1974)

  ‘The Pulse of India’s Intentions’, Far Eastern Economic Review (11 October 1974)

  ‘It’s not “Good Neighbourliness” but Aggression and Expansion’ in Peking Review, Vol. 17, No. 47 (22 November 1974), pp. 16–19

  ‘A Merger is Arranged’, Hindustan Times (15 April 1975)

  ‘Some in India Deplore Action on Sikkim’, New York Times (18 April 1975)

  ‘Imperial India’, The Observer (20 April 1975)

  ‘Hope Cooke: From Queen of Sikkim to “Regular” New Yorker’, New York Times (18 June 1975)

  ‘Sikkim’s ex-King a Virtual Prisoner’, New York Times (14 December 1975)

  ‘Desai Deplores Annexation, but Says He Cannot Undo It Now’, New York Times (8 March 1978)

  ‘Desai Defends Criticism of Sikkim’s Annexation’, New York Times (10 March 1978)

  ‘Sikkim Defies Gandhi’, The Observer (28 February 1982)

  ‘Chogyal unlikely to return home’, Himalayan Guardian (9 April 2013)

  Index

  Abrahams, Simon ref1

  Ahmed, Fakhruddin Ali ref1, ref2

  Aksai Chin ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  All India Radio ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Allende, Salvador ref1

  Anglo-Chinese Convention (1890) ref1

  Astor, David ref1, ref2, ref3

  Athing-la (key adviser to Chogyal Tashi) ref1

  Attlee, Clement ref1

  ‘Aviation Research Centre ‘ (ARC) ref1

  Awami League ref1

  Bailey, British political officer Colonel Frederick M. ref1n, ref2

  Bajpai, Indian political officer K. Shankar ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13

  apoplexy about Indian decision-making ref1

  departure from Sikkim ref1

  diplomacy of ref1

  hedonism and ‘last tango in Gangtok’ for ref1

  plan for 1973 Indian action in Sikkim ref1

  violent confrontations in Gangtok, concerns of potential for ref1

  Bajpai, Sir Girija ref1

  Band, George ref1

  Bangladesh ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Bangladesh Emergency (1971) ref1, ref2, ref3n, ref4, ref5

  ‘Free Bengal,’ emergence of ref1

  see also Indo-Pakistan War (1971)

  Barber, Noel ref1

  Basnett, M.S. ref1

  Bayliss, Dean ref1

  Beethoven, Ludwig van ref1, ref2

  Bell, British political officer Charles ref1, ref2

  Bhandari, Nar Bahadur ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Bhargava, G.S. ref1

  Bhutan ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  government of ref1

  Sikkimese relationship with, deterioration in ref1

  UN membership for ref1, ref2, ref3

  Bhutia-Lepchas ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16

  Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Indira Gandhi and, relationship between ref1

  Birendra, King of Nepal ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, r
ef8, ref9

  Bishop, Major General Alec ref1

  Bishop Cotton School, Simla ref1, ref2

  Bodleian Library ref1

  Border Roads Organisation (BRO) ref1

  Boston Globe ref1

  British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) ref1, ref2, ref3n

  British Foreign Office ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  British High Commission in Delhi ref1

  analysis of constitutional change in Sikkim ref1

  British Library ref1

  Brown, Joe ref1

  Brown, William Andreas ref1

  Brown, Winthrop G. ref1

  Browning, Gus ref1

  Buddha’s Warriors (Dukham, M.) ref1

  Burleigh, Peter ref1

  Calcutta ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Calcutta Club ref1

  Callaghan, Jim ref1, ref2, ref3

  Carter, Jimmy ref1

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14

  Hope Cooke and ‘Trojan Mare’ in Gangtok ref1

  Tibet Task Force ref1, ref2

  Tibetan freedom fighters, links with ref1, ref2

  Chamling, Pawan ref1, ref2

  Chapin, Mary (Hope Cooke’s maternal aunt) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Chapin, Selden ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  death of ref1

  Chavan, Yashwantrao Balwantrao ref1, ref2

  Chen Hsi-lien ref1

  Chhetri, Basant Kumar ref1, ref2

  Chhetri, Captain Roland ref1, ref2

  Chiang Kai-shek ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  China, People’s Republic of (PRC) ref1n

  Agreement between Tibet and (May, 1951) ref1

  Foreign Ministry ref1, ref2

  formation of People’s Republic ref1

  Indo-Pakistani relations with, importance of ref1

  Indo-Soviet collusion, suspicions of ref1

  Lhasa Uprising (1959), suppression of ref1

  Panchsheel Treaty with India (1954) ref1

  Radio Peking ref1, ref2, ref3

  reaction to Sikkim’s associate status ref1

  Sino-Indian War (1962) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Sichuan Province ref1

  Tibet invasion by ref1

  UN, exercise of power at ref1

  UN membership of Security Council for ref1

  United States and, rapprochement between ref1

  Chogyal see Namgyal, Palden Thondup, 12th Chogyal of Sikkim (known as Thondup)