The Royal History of Sikkim: A chronicle of the house of Namgyal, by John A Ardussi, Anna Balikci Denjongpa and Per K Sørensen
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20 juillet 2022
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Marlene Erschbamer, « The Royal History of Sikkim: A chronicle of the house of Namgyal, by John A Ardussi, Anna Balikci Denjongpa and Per K Sørensen », European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, ID : 10.4000/ebhr.423
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The Royal History of Sikkim is a secular history of Sikkim and the House of Namgyal. It was written to record and preserve the history of the country from a Sikkimese perspective and in contrast to the prevailing British representation. Before Sikkim became an Indian state in 1975, it was a small Buddhist kingdom. The kingdom was founded in the seventeenth century with the establishment of the Namgyal Dynasty as sovereign and its rulers continued to provide Sikkimese kings, called ‘Chogyal’, ...