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General elections were held in Sikkim in May 1953. The Sikkim National Party and the Sikkim State Congress both won six seats. Voter turnout was less...

General elections were held in Sikkim in January 1973. The Sikkim National Party emerged as the largest party, winning nine of the 18 elected seats. The...

General elections were held in Sikkim in March 1967, having been due earlier but postponed after a state of emergency was declared following the Sino-Indian...

General elections were held in Sikkim in 1958. The Sikkim State Congress emerged as the largest party, winning seven of the 20 seats. Voter turnout was...

Reservation for the Bhutia-Lepcha (BL) people started with the 1953 Sikkimese general election with six (out of 18) seats reserved in the Sikkim State Council...

strong supporter of the democratic movement in Sikkim. After 1973 Sikkimese general election amid allegations of vote rigging in South Sikkim in which pro...

third general election. He also served in the Executive Council of Sikkim after fourth Sikkimese general elections. In 1973 Sikkimese general election amid...

British and Sikkimese governments, ventured into the mountains of Sikkim unannounced and unauthorised. The doctors were detained by the Sikkimese government...

Congress Chief Tashi Tshering. In 1953, he was elected as a member in the first ever held Sikkimese general election for the State Council of Sikkim. Thereafter...

the Himalayas, between India and China. There were six elections held for the council between 1953 and 1974. In 1975, after a referendum to abolish the...

inconceivable to accept Sheikh Abdullah's demand for the restoration of the pre-1953 relationship between Kashmir and India because "the clock could not be put...

October 2023. Retrieved 2 April 2023. Andhra State Act, 1953 (PDF). Parliament of India. 1953. Retrieved 15 October 2023. Reorganisation of states (PDF)...

reflect the current population. Dzongkha is partially intelligible with Sikkimese and spoken natively by 25% of the population. Tshangla, the language of...

Kingdom of Sikkim was established as a princely state after the Anglo-Sikkimese Treaty of 1861, but its sovereignty had been left undefined. In 1947,...

Kingdom of Sikkim was established as a princely state after the Anglo-Sikkimese Treaty of 1861; however, the issue of sovereignty was left undefined....

ousted following a plebiscite in which the Nepalese majority outvoted the Sikkimese minority. Sikkim, long a protectorate of India, became India's twenty-second...

signed an order ratifying an amendment to the nation's constitution. Sikkimese voters had overwhelmingly approved annexation on April 14 and India's...

Trivandrum (now Thiruvananthapuram) (d. 2013) Died: Kazi Dawa Samdup, 53, Sikkimese-born linguist who was the first to translate texts from Tibetan Buddhism...

next day as Indian troops stopped the rebel column from approaching the Sikkimese capital of Gangtok. In return for the assistance, India would later annex...