Extracted from Pakistan Defence India’s “Chief Executive” in Gangtok wrote: “Sikkim’s merger was necessary for Indian national interest. And we worked to that end. Maybe if the Chogyal had been smarter and played his cards better, it wouldn’t have turned out the way it did.” It is also said that the real battle was not between the Chogyal and Kazi Lendup Dorji but between their wives. On one side was Queen Hope Cook, the American wife of the Chogyal and on the other was the Belgian wife of the Kazi, Elisa-Maria Standford. “This was a proxy war between the American and the Belgian,” says former chief minister BB Gurung. But there was a third woman involved: Indira Gandhi in New Delhi. Chogyal Palden met the 24-year-old New Yorker Hope Cook in Darjeeling in 1963 and married her. For Cook, this was a dream come true: to become the queen of an independent kingdom in Shangrila. She started taking the message of Sikkimese independence to the youth, and the allegations started flying thic...
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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