• The Kingdom of Sikkim (Classical Tibetan and Sikkimese: འབྲས་ལྗོངས།, Drenjong, Dzongkha: སི་ཀིམ་རྒྱལ་ཁབ།, Sikimr Gyalkhab, Nepali: सिक्किम अधिराज्य...
  • The Kingdom of Sikkim was founded by the Namgyal dynasty in the 17th century.
  • The Kingdom of Sikkim is a country in Southern Asia. It borders the Kashag of Tibet, the Kingdom of Nepal, the Autonomous Province of Bhutan and the Government of Free...
  • He assimilated the Lepchas and the resident tribes into a kingdom and his descendants formally initiated the rule of the Chogyal kingdom at Sikkim.
  • On April 6, 1975, Palden Thondup Namgyal, the last ruler of the Himalayan Kingdom of Sikkim, was practicing his morning ritual when short rapid bursts of...
  • The tiny mountain kingdom of Sikkim was established in the middle of the 17th century as a Buddhist monarchy with strong ties to Tibet and a wide range of...
  • When the kingdom of Sikkim was established in 1642, Phuntsog Namgyal, the first chogyal (temporal and spiritual king), came from the Bhutia community.
  • The infuriated Nepalese invaded Sikkim taking the kingdom by surprise, setting in motion the events that led to the Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814.
  • For the Indian Himalayan regions of Sikkim, Kalimpong, Darjeeling and Bhutan, the best time of year is from March to May and from October to December.
  • In fact Sikkim has seen only one such Royal Kingdom in its entire history, and the monarchy was in power for over 300 years between 1642 to 1975.