BY SHITAL PRADHAN Sikkim has always been a peaceful abode and a traveller’s paradise. To understand its beauty, one needs to discover this heaven, its passion, and its perfect picture. There could be no better choice than to start the journey from Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim. Gangtok is one of the much sought-after holiday destinations in India today. Over the last five years, the number of tourists visiting India and abroad has increased. Tracing back the origin of the Gangtok city the book “ The Gazetteer of Sikhim” published in 1894 writes of a place called Gantok from where a common man Phungshog Namgyal was summoned to Yoksam in West Sikkim by the three Tibetan Lamas and proclaimed as the Chogyal (King) of Sikkim. The year is given as 1641. The existence of the hamlet of Gangtok remains unknown till 1894, when, in the reign of Chogyal, Sir Thutob Namgyal shifted the capital of the Namgyal Dynasty from Tumlong to the present Gangtok. The 300-year-old Namgyal Dynasty end...
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