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*''Journals kept in Hyderabad, Kashmir, Sikkim, and Nepal'' by Sir Richard Temple 1887 [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044088752621?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 Volume I] Hathi Trust Digital Library; [https://archive.org/details/journalskeptinh01tempgoog Volume II] Archive.org | *''Journals kept in Hyderabad, Kashmir, Sikkim, and Nepal'' by Sir Richard Temple 1887 [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044088752621?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 Volume I] Hathi Trust Digital Library; [https://archive.org/details/journalskeptinh01tempgoog Volume II] Archive.org | ||
*[https://archive.org/details/gazetteersikhim00unkngoog ''The Gazetteer of Sikkim''] 1894 Archive.org | *[https://archive.org/details/gazetteersikhim00unkngoog ''The Gazetteer of Sikkim''] 1894 Archive.org | ||
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/279191 ''Routes In Sikkim''] by Captain W F O Connor 1900. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General's Department in India. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Also available as a [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1900-routes-in-sikkim-by-oconnor-s-pdf/ pdf download], PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. | *[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/279191 ''Routes In Sikkim''] by Captain W F O Connor 1900. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General's Department in India. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.279191 Archive.org version]. Also available as a [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1900-routes-in-sikkim-by-oconnor-s-pdf/ pdf download], PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. | ||
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024155206 ''Sikhim & Bhutan, twenty-one years on the North-East Frontier, 1887-1908''] by John Claude White. 1909 Archive.org | *[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024155206 ''Sikhim & Bhutan, twenty-one years on the North-East Frontier, 1887-1908''] by John Claude White. 1909 Archive.org | ||
*[https://archive.org/details/GIPE003752 ''Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, Sikkim''] by L S S O’Malley 1917 Archive.org. A volume in the series ''Provincial Geographies of India''. | *[https://archive.org/details/GIPE003752 ''Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, Sikkim''] by L S S O’Malley 1917 Archive.org. A volume in the series ''Provincial Geographies of India''. | ||
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Sikkim was a Princely State, which was incorporated into India in 1975.
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Spelling variants
Sikkim, Sikhim
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External links
- "Henry George "Hank" Baker: An Obituary: 23rd June 1918 – 15th January 2006" by Roger Croston The Tibet Journal Vol. 30/31, No. 4/1, Contributions to the study of Tibetan medicine (Winter 2005 & Spring 2006), pp. 193-196. jstor.org. Register and read online for free, see Miscellaneous tips. Henry Baker was a soldier in the Royal Corps of Signals who came to India in December 1938. In 1941 he was posted to run the radio station at the British Mission in Lhasa and was required to trek across the Himalayas to get to Lhasa. After seven months in Lhasa he was transferred to Sikkim where he remained until November 1945. He was was one of the last European eyewitnesses of the old Tibet.
Historical books online
- Report on a visit to Sikhim and the Thibetan frontier in October, November, and December 1873 by J. Ware Edgar, Offg. Deputy Commissioner of Darjeeling. 1874 Hathi Trust Digital Library.
- Journals kept in Hyderabad, Kashmir, Sikkim, and Nepal by Sir Richard Temple 1887 Volume I Hathi Trust Digital Library; Volume II Archive.org
- The Gazetteer of Sikkim 1894 Archive.org
- Routes In Sikkim by Captain W F O Connor 1900. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General's Department in India. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Archive.org version. Also available as a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
- Sikhim & Bhutan, twenty-one years on the North-East Frontier, 1887-1908 by John Claude White. 1909 Archive.org
- Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, Sikkim by L S S O’Malley 1917 Archive.org. A volume in the series Provincial Geographies of India.
- The Jewel In The Lotus by Sir Basil John Gould 1957. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection (catalogued 1921). Full title: The Jewel in the Lotus: Recollections of an Indian Political. Gould's Wikipedia page advises he joined the Indian Civil Service in 1907, and served as a Political Officer in Sikkim, Bhutan and Tibet from 1935 to 1945.