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This is a popular place at Gangtok..identify it....
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have begun to provide more comprehensive historical accounts of the past through oral histories and re-readings of historical documents.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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ReplyDeleteWe had a shop house at this place. This is just near The palace,Ridge Gangtok. I am talking of 1900 as our parents told to us.
ReplyDeleteS.K.Sarda
Now at M G Road, Gangtok,Sikkim
Well Sarda Sir....nice to know about it...i am sure u must have a nice collection of old photographs of Gangtok...an u share with us.
ReplyDeletei like this site i always want know about sikkim history and photographs and this website provide me that,
ReplyDeleterequest to you would you plz add the photos of mr pawan kumar chamling during he was in police and till date