A Kingdom Remembered : A Personal and Political History of Sikkim
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Jackie Hiltz
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ISBN 9788189602208
In 1975, the last king of Sikkim, Chogyal Palden Thondup Namgyal, was deposed, and the 330-year-old Himalayan kingdom became the twenty-second state of India. While all official narratives state that the union was amicable, what really took place remains contested to this day.
Two decades later, a singular question preoccupied Jackie Hiltz, writer and scholar—Exactly what had happened to bring the kingdom to its end? Gradually, this question grew into an enduring obsession. Over the next couple of decades, she travelled often to Sikkim and New Delhi, meeting key people—participants as well as others who had had a ringside view of events—sifting through archives, travelling to far-flung corners of the state, and digging for an answer.
What emerged from her obsession was
A Kingdom Remembered: a cohesive, meticulously researched political history of Sikkim spanning three centuries that is also deeply personal. In accessible, engaging prose, Jackie Hiltz uncovers and pieces together, layer by layer, the complicated and tragic history of a vanished kingdom.
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Jackie Hiltz is an independent scholar whose research and personal interests focus on the eastern Himalayas. She first visited Sikkim in 1997.
Educated at Stanford University (B.A., History) and the University of Montana (M.A., Asian History), she has co-edited two collections of scholarly essays focused on Asia and contributed articles to publications associated with the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology. She lives in Seattle.
