Between Sikkim and Bhutan the Lepchas and Bhutias of Pedong

by Indira Awasty

$45 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Delhi: B. R. Publishing Corporation, 1978 . First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, 1 , 120; 16 illustrations from photographs on rectos and versos of 4 plates; fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Pedong lies on the border of West Bengal with Sikkim. It was colonized first by the Lepchas in about the 13th century and formed a part of Sikkim. In the early 18th century, the area passed to Bhutanese control. In the late 19th century the British seized it. The famous

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