The Old Asian Country Nobody Knows About (Sikkim)
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▶ In this video I talk about the no longer existing country of Sikkim. The historical Kingdom of Sikkim, established in 1642, held sway over its current territory in modern-day India, including regions in Eastern Nepal, Western Bhutan, and parts of India and China. The monarchy's origins date back to a 14th-century Tibetan prince who received divine guidance and became the first Chogyal, or priest-king. Sikkim's complex past involved conflicts and influences from neighboring powers such as Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, and the British Raj, eventually leading to British protectorate status. After India gained independence in 1950, Sikkim became an Indian protectorate, later integrating as the 22nd state in 1975 through a referendum. Sikkim, known for its stunning mountainous terrain and rich biodiversity, continues to be an integral part of India's diverse landscape.
▶ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:27 The Creation of the Kingdom
01:34 Early Relationship with Nepal, Bhutan, & China
02:24 Arrival of the British
03:10 The Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814
03:52 Becoming a British Protectorate
05:29 Transition from British to Indian Control
05:57 Internal Conflict Between Monarchists and Democrats
07:02 Collapse of the Monarchy & Annexation by India
08:11 China's Invasion of Tibet & Attitude Towards Sikkim
10:34 Sikkim Today as an Indian State
12:31 Do They Want to Regain Independence?
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In the mid-1970s I was working at a nonprofit book publisher in NYC. Our executive director position was open, and the former queen of Sikkim, Hope Cooke Nahuatl, applied and was one of the finalists for the job. No, her resume didn’t include the job of Queen but said she was the head of some royal cultural organization for the kingdom.
Namgyal got autocorrected
@greysonric I'm glad you corrected that👍 had me thinking this guy's got the wrong continent due to the "Mesoamerican" lady he struck up a conversation with😏😉😆😄😅😂😊thank you for the chuckle!
Sikkim is the first Indian state to switch to 100 percent organic farming.
Whatever the hell that is suppose to mean.
@@AL-lh2htit means they switched to organic farming
@@jen_sen8508how very kind of you to break it down for him!
@jen_sen8508 With 1.4B people to feed, I seriously doubt India will be able to produce 100% of the food needed organically.
Well, because they are part of India, perhaps it won't be as huge and as clusterous a disaster as Sri Lanka doing the same thing.
My grandma was doing peace corps in India, and she was able to meet the monarchs of Sikkim soon before the nation disappeared. Since she told me about the visit, I’ve been super interested in the country. Thank you for making the video!
It didn't disappear, it still exists 😂, go and visit Sikkim, just it's status changed to Indian state.
It's a State now
country is India
That small kingdom landmass can't be country because Chinese is agressive
You know Bhutan losses it's territory every year from Chinese agression
@@NewstatePlayer100Bhutan that doesn’t recognize china as a country: 🗿
Wait how Sikkim disappeared? Are you high on sometime!! It's status only changed to an Indian State
@@heyheywhatup you need to accept it mate
You don't even have military the weak suffers the strong get over the hardships
A video explaining why it took so much longer for a centralized Italian state to form compared to Spain and France would be interesting .
Some of the classical and medieval Indian empires were quite centralized for their time period, they just didn’t last. It’s mostly the same reason Italy didn’t unite for quite some time; other powers kept messing about in their peninsula. Foreign invasions from the Persians, mongols, the Timurids, and many others would come in long enough to sack a few cities and leave the empire of the week in north India unstable and prone to collapse.
There's something about Italy that people don't get from northern countries. Italy didn't have the "reconquista" where the northern Gothic German culture replaced the Semitic influence to the south. Italy was sandwitched by the Papal States in the middle so the northern Lombardian culture had much difficulty penetrating the south.
Today the southern Italian lifestyle is reminiscent of Arab countries - wives live with in-laws, cuisine and art are more attractive than business and engineering, people are tribal and rely on impressing their own communities, families live together in a single home - these traits are generally un-European, let alone northern Italian.
Funnily enough I have their flag!! I never knew what it was until now!
@thezoldics7648 that still counts as annexation.
@satyakisil9711 Wtf are you talking about ? Different lifestyle than the northerners ? More akin to North Africans ? You can say the same thing for Portugal, Spain, Greece, and the Balkan countries. Anyway what has Italy got to do with Sikkim ?
The Crown Prince of Sikkim, Tenzing Namgyal, was head of house when I went to Harrow; his younger brother, Wangchuk, was also in the house, and his cousin, Prince Shungden Yuthok, was one of half a dozen new boys joining with me - if I recall correctly he was one day younger than me.
The annexation came as a real surprise, totally unexpected, but it was effectively in April 1973 when the Chogyal's reign as an absolute monarch was brought to an abrupt end, although it wasn't formalised until two years later as explained here. I recall a notice being pinned on the house noticeboard and Shungden (known as Tenzing) quickly leaving the school very early to go home to Sikkim.
Tenzing, the Crown Prince, died in a car accident in 1978 and his younger brother, Wangchuk, became Crown Prince then later Chogyal (King) when his father died in 1982 - both were sons of the Chogyal's first wife, Sanyo Sangideki, who died young, not his second, Hope Cooke (100% an American, not a Canadian) who was divorced from the Chogyal in 1980, two years before he died.
Wangchuk was crowned the 13th Chogyal in Sikkim after his father's death, but he's been a reclusive Buddhist monk since then, in Sikkim and Bhutan (he and the King of Bhutan are cousins).
Sikkim is India's state.... Sikkimese are happy... And having better life. Nobody is making noise. They just want to live peacefully
@@MrinangoCHAKRABORTY9103 🤡
India, a nation of 1400 Millions, has 65 % people living below poverty line while 225 Millions living in extreme poverty ...
Wealth concentrated to fews, living in cities, seeping off blood of others ...Recent WFO Food Index published states that India lags by 20 countries, behind Bangladesh ...@@MrinangoCHAKRABORTY91033
@@MrinangoCHAKRABORTY9103 what does that have to do with the Comment?? He is telling about the faiths of the Monarchs not about if people are happy or not.
@@debasishgoswami9896 Note how any annexing power says similar stuff when someone questions the annexation...
0:38 - It is a "State", not "province" . The term "State" in the Indian context reflects the federal structure of the country, emphasizing the semi-autonomous nature of its constituent units.
Great video, as always GK! I also really appreciate you giving a shoutout to the videos made by a lesser known CZcamsr, and allowing people to also discover their content through your channel! I'm certain they'll appreciate it once they find out about it, and I can only wish more CZcamsrs did that, especially for those of us who are struggling to find that initial base.
In 2003 China recognized India's sovereignty over Sikkim, in exchange for India's recognition of China's sovereignty over Tibet. What a farce.
When India becomes a rival of the West after reaching perhaps 10 trillion GDP, you'll hear a lot of "Free Sikkim" chants just like "Free Tibet" now.
The geopolitics of the region are about to blow up ...
Proud to be Bhutia, proud to be Sikkimese, proud to be Indian🇮🇳❤️
Traitor
@@alexlehrersh9951 Nepal economy shrinking.... Seeking from IMF, e
Literacy just 60%. GDP per capita 1,133
Meanwhile Indian state Sikkim
GDP per capita 4,678
Literacy 80%
Love to Sikkim from Haryana ❤❤, I have a friend who's from Sikkim 😊
@@alexlehrersh9951 you must be a ccp comrade😂😂, wanna know how much gutter oil they give you😂
@@alexlehrersh9951you are
I love this one. For a long time there were three Himalayan states, Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim, now there’s only two :)
I eat Richie
Also Tibet
Soon India will also forcefully occupy Bhutan.
@@KamalUddin-zd4cwWhat about Tibet? China already forcefully occupied Tibet.
@@KamalUddin-zd4cwno India won't
Who told you that lmfao
What an incredible story! Loved your video, as always!
May I suggest a video on the Mapuche claims against the Spanish and Chilean rule?
Very good video! I’ve enjoyed a lot! Thanks a bunch!
Keep up the good work. Great video.
Brilliant! Thank you!
What an interesting video! I hope to learn more about various countries like this one!
Sikkim isn't a country. They're having better life in India than those NEP, BHU, BAN, PAK. Look at their conditions
@MrinangoCHAKRABORTY9103
A Psycho speaking Big Words ...
India, a nation of 1400 Millions, has 65 % people living below poverty line while 225 Millions living in extreme poverty ...
Wealth concentrated to fews, living in cities, seeping off blood of others ...
It has been my luck to have visited and can confirm it is a wonderful place. So much culture and history in a beautiful place.
Fantastic video! I would recommend a History video explaining ‘Why was 🇲🇲Burma (now Myanmar) partitioned from 🇬🇧British India in 1937?’ - as it was British India’s largest province & there aren’t many videos explaining it, just like How you made a video about Why was 🇮🇳India partitioned into 🇵🇰Pakistan & 🇧🇩Bangladesh.
I second this idea for a video. I've always assumed it was an ethnicity thing, but I really don't know much about it.
simply divide and conquer.
It's Brits what to expect. They where basically broke at that point so controlling our country India was hard for them so split it up.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922
There was nothing there to divide. Indian mini empire actually united the 'never been-united' regions under one dominion.
@@hawkingdawking4572 united india itself is the proof of "conquer" in divide and conquer.
What a beautiful location it is in India. A must visit place ❤
In occupied india 😂😂😂😂
@@Henry12341 Yes, india acupied your mother and sister. 😝😝
@@Henry12341hey we all Indian' s are diverse, yes alot of people are divided by border which was drawn by Britisher' s.
@@lalitakumarimahaur2195 you are united by britishers ... Sikkimese people are more related to tibetan, chinese... it is not diversity . You force them to adopt your dirty culture by destroying their culture
@@Henry12341 bro chill
It's a state in India , which means it still is autonomous.
Also it's not that big of a deal , these types of small kingdoms tend to be assimilated into neighbouring kingdoms more than being independent. Similar to how the 13 colonies got Texas or Cali or japan has ryuku islands or Spain has Catalunya or uk over malvinas/ falklands ,China over Tibet (and this one is more imp cause Tibet was a major player in the past) , Denmark over Greenland
The only exceptions are the micronations who exist because mostly of their geography.
Merry Christmas mate!! See you in the new year!!
Great video. Always wondered about that regions history. Always wondered about why 1975 why so late. Thanks 👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Gangtok is beautiful. Would love to visit one day!
Its original name is "gantok" which means "top of the hill". Due to typical British accent its name turned to Gangtok in English and became widely used all over India. Try to speak Gantok in British accent you will realise.
Its the most relaxing place in the entirety of india, i recommend trying it, its quite cheap too!
Gantok/Gangtok is a beautiful place in the Himalayas. You have the view of Kanchanjungha (3rd highest peak in the world after Everast and K2) from anywhere in the city. Booze is tax free so cheap alcohol and is a very relaxing place to visit. I go every year for a week.
The king of Sikkim still lives a good life.
He is a diplomat now
Great video , thanks
Finally a video that talks about Sikkim. I cannot thank you enough
you should do a video about the autonomous prefectures of china
My wife is Sikkimese so I have a connection to The Kingdom of Sikkim now. I get to enjoy their hospitality whenever I visit my in-laws.
Massage parlors' regular customer spotted😂
@@yogeshshinde406 don't make a fool of yourself in public. Asach Marathi loka apli izzat ghalavtat.
@@yatriprasadMarathi ? Mastach !
@@moonknight3594 ho Marathi. Dhanyawad. 😊
@@moonknight3594 tu kunthun aahes? I see you are a gamer. I also tried getting into the Pokemon game but it was a bit out of league for me. I mostly enjoy strategic games
Very intresting video.
Thanks for covering one of my favourite countries in the world
👋🏻👴🏼
I visited Sikkim and it is very beautiful two years ago during this time only, at the end of the year. The culture and of course the people being the highlights. And I was reminiscing about Sikkim right now and so this video.
3:59 - In 1849, the country was The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and it had 🇬🇧 as its flag. The flag you used is the flag of the Kingdom of Great Britain, which united with the Kingdom of Ireland in 1801.
This was in one of my history books and I was always soo curious about it , since I could never find it on any other map
I had a copy of the 1979 Encyclopedia Britannica and in it's world maps, sikkim was like classified as a country, and ofc this is also the time USSR was still standing.
Kashmir was also listed as like a separate country in there too, tho it's also listed as a region jointly owned by india & pakistan respectively.
What we can expect invaders Europe
Divide and rule and create lines in maps
@@ChillkittzGTyes here in Indian books northan Ireland belongs to Ireland and Scotland showed as Independent country and its shows English forcefully holding back Scotts by keeping them under them by beaurocatic force !
@@moonknight3594 😂😂😂 savage
Also don't forget the Anglo-saxon complete run over the culture and language of Wales even their flag doesn't have a mention in the uk flag
and add to that they still own a bunch of different islands all across the globe including the malvinas/falklands
Still can't get over the colonial hangover while countries like Norway and Poland are doing much better , also we know how you mock the Scott's for their thick accent
@@ChillkittzGTin india, USA, Canada and Australia are show as land forcefully occupied by Anglo saxons of England.
0:27 when it comes to establishing countries, 1642 isn't 'a long time ago'. 1642 is relatively recent in the world of states. most of the countries of today were already known in one form or another back in 1642. even most of the very modern creations after decolonisation.
could you do a video about countries and their unlikely allies like India and russia?
singapore and serbia.
India and russia are allies tho? Because the soviets helped in the indo-pakistani war
Kosovo and serbia.
Very interesting.
I love my country and I am proud to be from Sikkim.
Just came from a Sikkim tour today. The people are very nice and friendly. Sikkim feels quite independent from India, having its own border immigration. Loved it.
Himachal, Pradesh, Lakshadweep, NE states have land laws where outsiders can't buy land.
It's not unique to Sikkim only.
@@Roachh2877 no i meant like i need to pass through a separate immigration and get permit from sikkim gov to enter sikkim. havent seen this in any other states. i have gone to delhi, punjab, hp, up, haryana, rajastan, telangana and west bengal.
@@ArianIbraheem
That's the ILP
Inner line permit.
Some areas of India has that
thats the reason why those states are relatively cleaner and dont have pan spitted on everywhere@@Roachh2877
@@ArianIbraheemthat is Inner line permit which is required to visit Sikkim,arunachal pradesh, nagaland, mizoram, manipur, Meghalaya and tripura. This is even required for Indian also. This was given to those states to protect there local cultures.
Although I don't support ILP and sixth schedule also.
Gangtok is probably the one of the best places you can visit in india. Love from india man.
Great video. can you please make a video on Ahom kingdom
Ask about it here , while ncert didn't care to mention it in any grade ,
Same goes for kingdoms from my state 😢 , Delhi centric history
@@Krankenwagen571 i heard they will add it soon
@@Krankenwagen571not Delhi centric. Out NCERT book is muslim centric. Our first 5 education minister was a hardcore Islamist who was buried in Saudi rather than india after his death. Have you read anything about Marathas, rajputs, and other Hindu empires in NCERT book?
I lived in Sikkim and did my undergrad from there. I absolutely love Sikkim
Okinawa used to be independent. After WW2 the US held onto it for almost 30 years because it wasn't clear Japan had a right to it. The other Japanese territories of the time were returned to their original owners or granted independence with the exception of the former Ainu territories (basically Hokkaido) since they never had an internationally recognized government.
I remember it cuz in Kaiserredux is big juicy focus tree for Sikkim 🥵
Beautiful place. Amazing people.
Hi, there it was really nice to get a informative video about the sikkim chogyal rule until 70’s, can you please make a video about the Tripura manikya rule history and information details about curious & suggestion to spread the history of a northeastern region of Indian belt or the southeast asian kingdom who was never been a part of mughal invasion & british india control and according to sources it’s the only existing kingdom till date from the holy scriptures of mahabharat and want to know how it ended up merged as a state of republic of India/ Bharat
British captured Manipur and assam. By the way ahom people of Assam are originally Thailand they migrated to Assam vally.
The seed of India's annexation of Sikkim was sown by British by demographic aggression by flooding Sikkim with Nepali as indigent labour. British had done to Sri Lanka which is led to current crisis of Tamil. Many Indians were taken to South Africa and to Central Americaan countries such was Guyana etc.
@gyadre
They (Nepalis) were all over there in India. In other parts, they were in severe minority. Only in Sikkim they were a majority and also in the adjoining North Bengal in West Bengal state. They tried to establish a separate "Gorkhaland" state there (within the Indian Union, of course).
@@MrPoornakumar ofc why do you think momos sale 📈 in India and why do we lovingly call em momos .
Literally the best momo stall in my town is Kathmandu momos 😊
@@Krankenwagen571true, nepalis make best momos in this world. I love momos
When the British ruled India (Indian sub-continent), they administered some areas (40% to half the area) themselves and allowed native princely states to have (almost full) autonomy. The relationship was that of a vassal, in which the vassal takes care of the manpower needs of the suzerain (the viceroy) as well as meeting some substantial expenses in the Indian wars. Virtually there was no revenue accruing from these princely states and the prince-lings were left alone to enjoy all their earnings to lead lavish life-styles. The British policy was to advance the Imperial goals, but never to interfere in the nitty-gritty of administering the people. No such princely state is a "nation" in that respect, that would have a direct relationship with the (English) Crown. In that, most (if not all) these states belong to India & to the Indian people - that they'd revert to the Indians there, after the "lapse of paramountcy" (that happened in 1947, August 15).
That throws up interesting questions. Do the two (successor) dominions inherit "all" the rights the (English) Crown enjoyed, as the English king or queen, concurrently happens to be the "emperor" of India? Or are there nuances in the relationship after the lapse of paramountcy? Can an entity (princely state) attempt to become an independent country (like what Maharaja of Kashmir attempted or Nizam of Hyderabad unsuccessfully did)? Do the people there, want to join India charting a common destiny? It happened with the tiny French & Portuguese possessions, where in, the people overthrew their regimes & declared independence, "to join India". The rule is the same for any princely state.
India drew a hierarchy for internal administration, with the entities clustered under categories A, B & C. Sikkim was attached to the Indian Union (dominion of India) as Part D state. That was until her people overthrew their ruler & joined India.
True, Sikkim was ruled by bhutias who were from Bhutan and bhutias were even very population and discriminating majority lepchas and nepalis. It was the majority lepchas and nepalis who voted to join india.
And they took right decision, otherwise they would had same fate which nepalis in Bhutan had. They would have forcely thrown from sikkim
Please Do Manipur next🙌🏻
Manipur
Ladakh
Sikh Empire
Naga tribes
Portuguese Goa
Junagadh
Ahoms
Sindhis
So many underrated Indian kingdoms and empires to study
A video with the same theme as this one on Sikh Empire would be interesting
A kingdom established in 1642 can hardly be called ancient please.
Today it is the fastest growing small state of the union of India with a TFR that matches Portugal
The same goes with the Tripura Kingdom of the Manikya Dynasty. A least-known fact today.
I like these type of videos
nice :)
Sikkim went from being it's own country to becoming a state of another country. And it kept its name. I wonder how many other countries has that happened to.
Hawaii, Texas, and California were all previously independent countries.
@@Raja1938 So was vermont
Hyderabad was a kingdom now capital city of Telugana i guess. And Portugal Goa(not colony part of Portugal).
Many American states were independent countries 😅
@@vinaymann838like Texas which is Mexicano but if I talk trash to gays of European or they ancestors Invader
They will be madass😂
The name is an absolute riot for Turkic people
What does it mean?
@@G_FRE it means "my dick" it just got an extra "k"
@@G_FREbasically sikkim mean f*ck
@@G_FRE F*ck"ng
@@G_FREAfter googling the meaning of Sikkim in internet,I found it in the Turkish language if you spell Sikkim without one (K), ie,Sikim it means MY DICK.
I, hope now U understood.😅😂😊🕉️🔱🪱👹🔱👺🕉️
Opening animatic!😮
Call me old fashioned, but I miss when the intro was short and got straight into the content. Personal preference I guess. I still enjoyed
No doubt sikkimese chose the right path we can clearly see nepal, sri lanka and Pakistan today and sikkim is 2nd richest state in India after Goa. Even Bhutan is totally dependent on India as well they equalise their currency to Indian rupee thru a treaty hence their currency is stable and Indian military is protecting Bhutan.
@@darlenedagher7235lol in India u have freedom to do all ! And Sikkim is tax free state 😂
We have CZcams facebook twiter this shows there are freedom of speech unlike China 😂😂
@@darlenedagher7235people from other state can't go to sikkim without inner line permit, we can't buy land there then how it's police station. Majority of population of sikkim hated monarchy as they were bhutia from Bhutan who was minority in Sikkim.
Go and read about history and mass exodus of nepalis from Bhutan. Same would had happen in Sikkim also and that's why nepalis and lepcha wanted to join india.
Second thing, sikkim was not an independent country, they didn't even have a seat in UN.
Many independent Kingdoms were invaded by india after british Left british raj india..
Not invaded they were peacefully integrated.
I am from a formal princely state.
@@coginito8365 which state?
@@rainbow76578 Indore.
@@rainbow76578I am from Rajasthan and it was also a princely state. If Kings had not merged rajashthan into India then we would have overthrow King and merged rajashthan into India.
Most of the princely states had signed instrument of accession even before independence.
King of Mysore (present day Karnataka) was the first king who signed instrument of accession. Many of the PSUs which we know today was created by him only like HAL, GAIL and many more.
Hmmmm. Interesting 🤔
Reason I know this nation before is in our geograpyh class teacher showing the maps and the name of mountain is the thing that I cant forget and search. I just look to that cause my native language is turkish and that name caused to much laught in our classroom. I am sorry for the people who knows what it means in turkish. Little fact consonants can used as duplicate in turkish speaking (not in writen language) for emphasis. At least google not translates it with two "k".
I'm debating whether or not to watch this video, given that according to the title, I am not the target audience. Some of us are old enough to remember Sikkim's absorption into India.
Ok, Debate over, I would love to revisit this topic; I'll watch it. And I'm sure I'll learn something I didn't know.
Where u from
@@Krankenwagen571 USA
I was once surprised when I noticed Sikkim is not an independent state. Since I remember it is one of the neighboring countries of China in my middle school textbook. But now I think I know better about why it was listed as independent in the first place...
Where are you from
Better say when
@@mohittewari4127 he wrote a nice story na?
@@arghyadipray5278 I am from Sikkim
If this person went to school before mid-1970's the textbook would have been correct.
5:04 what do you mean china negotiating on Tibet's behalf? It's like like saying Portugal negotiating on the Azore's behalf... Tibet was part of Qing China...
Maybe talk about the Ryuku Kingdom in Okinawa in modern day Japan
This is weird because I was just researching this area of the world a few months ago and I realized there were really no CZcams videos on Sikkim that were in English .
Have a look at Sikkim vlogs its cool place to stay after retirement !
Why kashmir is shown as part of Pakistan and ladakh as part of China... Donot provide misleading information..
That's because you don't know what's really happening in the borders. This is the correct map.
Pls make video of kochi 👑king😊
He repelled the dutch , if I remember correctly
I knew about it and mustang too
There are numerous other states in india which once used to be major players.
For example
1 Chola king in present day state of Tamil nadu which are considered to be one of the longest kingdom by time of existence
2) ahom in northeast india
(Odd compass has a very good video on it)
3) hyderabad which wasnt always independent but is still pretty unique
4) dozen or so city states in the thar desert, present day rajasthan and some parts of pakistan.
These are just a few examples
Cholas were based out of Tamilnadu not Kerala
@@gowthampandiarajan6027 I am really sorry
I was writing on the fly and did not read the details carefully
Which I should not have done
Once again sorry!!!!
Don't forget the sikh empire!
The only good theocracy
@@gowthampandiarajan6027What difference does it make? Chola and Maurya created India's most powerful empire.🙏💪
@@funnymakerboy4199Maratha Empire enters the chat. The hindutva restoration era.
Sir that's a wonderful video that I have seen today
My question is was the relationship of the British Raj with Bhutan was similar to that of with Sikkim's or was it a bit different since after independence of India both Sikkim and Bhutan were given similar protectorate status but still it was Sikkim who lost it's independent status while Bhutan survived as an beautiful independent nation
Bhutan was far more independent and autonomous then sikkim was, in addition as the video explains the main reason, or crisis, that made sikkim lose independence was because the majority of the population was not native and instead recent generational immigrants that had no love for sikkim royalty, so india just came in and annexed it without much issue.
Basically the national identity of Sikkim died with a super majority not even being native in their hyper small nation,while Bhutan never lost its national identity.
Oh and while beautiful Bhutan does not actually rate that high in the “national happiness index” like people claim and is a horrible place to live in while being a playground for billionaires.
@@AL-lh2htmakes sense because even geographically Nepal is more attached to Sikkim compared to Bhutan that's why the Nepali migration happened while the border between Bhutan and Sikkim is largely disconnected by Tibet and also as a matter of fact that Bhutan in itself is an extrem isolated land and have acted as a buffer zone while Sikkim wasn't much isolated since it has the Nathu La pass which is in fact one of the most important area for the ancient silk route
@@AL-lh2htto be honest south asia is much backwards compared to the other east and south east asiatic nations
@@AL-lh2htanother fact is what I have read that Jawaharlal Nehru himself have said that
"Bhutan is in a sense like an Independent nation but with the protection of India while
Sikkim is in a sense an Indian state but with special status"
Whats with the way too aggressive camera motion 2:52?
What I find nothing
The involvement are crucial.
The Axom Dynasty came from what today is Myanmar. That's how vast and varied Indians are!
Many Indian Tribals have Haplogroup that have origins in Caucasian Mountains.
India is truly a melting pot.
@abc_cba
It was really a melting pot, about two thousand years ago. And again when the Central Asians took over the rule.
Ahoms didn't come from Myanmar. They came from Yunnan currently occupied by chyna
Yeah, a referendum after basically an invasion, very legitimate, India...
India should be ashamed of what they did with Sikkim, Goa and Hyderabad
Lol converted mdrssachap cry harder
I am proud of what india did in goa by destroying the last remaining colonial legacy in the indian subcontinent once and for all.
I am proud of what india did in sikkim by integrating it and given cultural autonomy, preventing china from annexing it and homogenise the entire population to mainland han people.
I am proud of what india did in hyderabad by annexing it and therefore preventing pakistan from gaining strategic advantage over india and fund further balkanisation of the indian state.
BTW Hyderabad violated all clauses of the standstill agreement in external affairs, by carrying out intrigues with Pakistan, to which it secretly loaned 15 million pounds; in defence, by building up a large semi-private army; in communications, by interfering with the traffic at the borders and the through traffic of Indian railways.
Portugal started hostilities by shooting at indian fishermen resulting in a death.
Shame on you to draw conclusions from a youtube video. Shame on you *spits*
@@kushaliyersharma9688 Two wrongs doesn't make a right...
@@se6369 that's how the world is working since the start , I also wish my state was independent country but it's not European and as a state it still gets some perk
Sikkim was already part of India. They had just one more power than rest of states. Every state in India have some form of autonomy. Central government and state government have set of powers definded in our constitution.
I found out what it was whenever I got the flag by accident in a world flag lot
Well thats interesting
Kingdom of Lanna, Patani Kingdom, Mueang Ho Kham Chiang Rung (Chiang Hung State), Sip Song Chau Tai (Tai Federation), Meuang Phuan (Principality of Phuan), Kingdom of Sarawak, Kingdom of Bali, Sultanate of Yogyakarta
th.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ไฟล์:Siamese_Territory_and_Dominion_in_1805.jpg
It's crazy how a tiny region manages to have a long history and still do better than most of its neighbors
Your statement is ignorant asf, do you have slightest idea of the history of it's neighbors? Which again would be factually wrong because it has always been part of India until 1700s when most of the kingdoms in India collapsed
In my country, there are streets named after the areas that the indentured Indians from . shout out to Sikkim St,St.James ,Trinidad
Eversince I first started looking in Atlases and on maps and got way too old school atlases I have known that there was the country of Sikkim
Free Sikkim!!
Yes Sikkim is tax free state
Free Tibet and Xinjiang
Free tibet
Referendum was held with no international observer's
There is no demand for independence tho.. Sikkim people are the most lucky people in South Asia. They get so much benefit from government it's crazy if you read about it. From taxes to schools to quotas in government institutions
@@amanrautx the kashmiris want independence so do the nagas and so does the Punjabis
@@jkmcgregor7797 only Kashmir valley is the weakest link..Punjab and especially naga don't want independence.. also lots of people misunderstand Punjabi independence.. do a little bit of research they wanted to introduce Anandpur resolution for their state. You can research it there's no mention of seperate state. Just Google Anandpur resolution, Indian government just wanted to frame them as separatist for their personal gain...
@@jkmcgregor7797 you westoid read a article on Wikipedia and think you know everything... Nagaland recorded more than 87% voter turnout in 2014 Indian general election which was highest voters turnout in India which Indian authorities consider as faith of Naga people in democracy of India. They wouldnt vote for bjp if they want independence. Even the party which wanted independence in the past is in coalition government with current rulling party.. you would not find a single article where you will see people of nagas wanting separate country.. like they would survive in middle of India and mayanmar with their dozens of different tribe which hate each other.
@@amanrautx jammu 10 districts out which 6 are with the valley and kargil is with the valley in any referendum so majority is for independence .nagas want independence and have their own independence day .the sikhs may have had resolution but after 1984 its independence
Sarawak was a former sovereign nation. Maybe you can do it in the future.
There is more than what meets the eye with the American Princess .
Free Sikkim
Free Tibet
@@user-g5rt89 Free Arunachal Pradesh
@@DoggoArmyUnion5tmkc
Free Arunachal
@@DoggoArmyUnion5 come here & make them free. Can ya?
It was the 90’s, before internet, during my middle school years. We had this “Asian countries” assignment in Geography class. One of us had an old atlas from the 70’s or something in which Sikkim was still independent. This led to confusion and some amusement, because the name of Sikkim is really suitable to make lame jokes in my language, Turkish. The thing is Sikkim pretty much sounds like “sikim” in Turkish, which means “my d***k”. But the officials tried to avoid this effect, so they wrote it as “Sıkkım”, similar letter, different pronunciation. Unfortunately this in turn sounds like “zıkkım” that means “unpleasant, poisonous or harmful fluid” and to lesser extent such food. The jokes abounded of course. In later years, the caption of a DVD subtitle having the word “Sikkim” has become a meme around here, of course with its original spelling and more profane meaning associated with that.
Strong words coming from a country named after the dumbest bird to exist 🦃
Interesting piece of information
Originally it's name was sukhkim not sikkim.in limbu kirat dilect language sukh means rest and khim means house .
3:24 Lady in blue dress goes to war with wooden spoon, respect. Defiantly had the best KD ratio.
I have heard of Sikkim before, and I am American.
Me too. Although I did visit India but not the area Sikkim is in.
Sounds like a lovely name for a Turkic country 🫶👀
Its a tibetic name
@@ZvenoGamingnope Tibetan name is “Denzong”, also the Sikkim means something vulgar in Turkic language so the guy above may be referring to it.
Lol. Someone explained the joke it either means rotten foul fluid or my dickZ
India always changing Internation borders😂.Bangladesh,Sikkim
The king of Sikkim still there he's now Indian top clsss diplomat ! Living best life !
2:30 You spelled "China"over Thailand, actually China is north of Thailand's border !
I could be mistaken as I don't know that much about this subject, but did you use the modern borders of india instead of the (rough) borders of the British Raj in the 'becoming a british protectorate" section? As the British would have roughly held control over modern day India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangeldesh and parts of Myanmar. Was there a reason that the modern Indian borders were more useful in this discusion?
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They didn't keep hold of such a huge region at any specific period in time. It was mostly conquest and recession going on simultaneously.
Myanmar was under Japanese occupation at the end of WW2.
@@parjanyashukla176that part of the video is about 1850-1890, when their control over the places I mentioned was the same as their control over what's shown (modern India)
Thank the gods India made Sikkim a part of the Republic.
I used to live in Gangtok!
3d???? I guess, what's the pint idk
Sikkim is India's Tibet?
Sikkim is India’s Toilet?
@@aryanhan506No you are India's toilet. Your mouth is inlet😂
Sikkim , Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland
Kinda
Nope, India didn't forcefully invaded sikkim unlike china did to tibet, republic of east turkestan, souhtern mongolia, manchuria, yannan. Sikkim asked India to be a state of India. India granted it.
The funny thing is, Mainland China claims Sikkim always wanted to join China and did seek for help but China rejected it
But I have a friend living there which told me they just regarded China as a neighbouring country and actually nobody wants to join them. And insisted the question should be: Were they happy with India.
You just can't trust Mainland Chinese medias.😂😂😂
Hahaha infact Chinese sh1t lives most Central East
West North South is empty space of shina
And down fall of real estate 😂😂 land occupier kinner Chine
You look Chinese yourself
"demonstrating the importance of Buddhism, EVEN THIS FAR BACK" - lol. we are in the year 2566 of the Buddhist calendar... and founded 16.. something of our calendar, this was a young kingdom.
♥️ Chhattisgarh 🤝 Sikkim ♥️
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