Sikkim: a short political history

by Lal Bahadur Basnet

$75 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

New Delhi: S. Chand & Co., 1974 . First edition, 8vo, pp. vi, 2 , 216; 6 photographic illustrations on rectos and versos of 2 plates; fine copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Sikkim, along with its neighbouring Himalayan kingdoms of Nepal and Bhutan, occupies a very sensitive position on the map. In April 1973, Sikkim shot into prominence when the people of the kingdom rose in revolt against the ruler, Chogyal Palden Thondup Namgyal. This

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