Gangtok: The former Chief Minister of Sikkim, Shri L.D. Kazi Khangsarpa passed away on July 28 in his residence at Kalimpong. He was 103 years old, and he was under treatment, and his condition was stable for a week. Chief Minister Dr. Pawan Chamling, soon after hearing the demise of the first Chief of Sikkim, rushed to Kalimpong to pay the last tribute to the former CM. Shri Kazi was the first Chief Minister soon after the merger of Sikkim in 1975, and he is considered the architect of the merger of Sikkim into the Indian Union. With his passing away, an era of Sikkim's history has ended.
By Seira Tamang As noted by various scholars, Hinduism, the Nepali language, the monarchy and a rastriya itihas (a chronicle of progress in which the dark era of Rana rule is contrasted with the enlightened, progressive and modern period of Panchayat rule) formed the core of the Panchayat regime’s national culture. The formation and consolidation of this national culture have required the expunging of uncomfortable facts and stories that might raise ambiguities and questions. While the selection of what and who is and is not acknowledged to exist (or at least exist in historically important ways) in official Nepali history is complex, social scientists have begun to provide more comprehensive historical accounts of the past through oral histories and re-readings of historical documents. Such accounts reveal how ordinary people lived in the past, and offer ways to think through how ‘history’ is crafted, shaped and managed in order to reflect ‘the reality’ best suited to the status quo, ...
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