While it is an archive that represents elite perspectives, the Sikkim Palace Archives, is also the first collection of local origin to be made freely and universally accessible for international scholarship, presenting a perspective of events and characters as experienced from within looking out...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Dzongkha, English, French, Hindi, Lepcha, Malayalam, Nepali, Tibetan, and Urdu
Collection of notifications from various departments. Original file reference: SPA/DA/AD/098. Extent of original material: 133 pages. This file contains the following 56 items: EAP880/1/1/98/1: Notesheets regarding notifications from various departments, 9 Sep 1941-10 Sep 1941, [3 images]; EAP...
Administrative notifications and Sikkim Darbar Gazette publications
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Administrative notifications regarding the land and council laws. Original file reference: SPA/DA/AD/124. Extent of original material: 30 pages. This file contains the following 12 items: EAP880/1/1/124/1: Notification from the Private Secretary regarding the construction within private estate...
Reports and correspondences regarding political demonstrations and disturbances. Original file reference: SPA/DA/AD/131. Extent of original material: 131 pages. This file contains the following 14 items: EAP880/1/1/131/1: Circular from the Officer-in-Charge, Home Department regarding the deput...
Correspondence between Palden Thondup Namgyal (Chogyal r.1965-1982) and representative of the Government of India
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Correspondence between Palden Thondup Namgyal (Chogyal r.1965-1982) and Kewal Sigh, B.S. Das, K.S. Bajpai, Gurbachan Singh and others. Original file reference: SPA/DA/AD/136. Extent of original material: 172 pages. This file contains the following 62 items: EAP880/1/1/136/1: Draft letter from ...
'Hindustan Times' articles on the status of Sikkim
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Copies of the articles publisged in 'Hindustan Times' regarding the status of Sikkim and the 36th Amendment bill of the Indian Constitution. Original file reference: SPA/DA/AD/140. Extent of original material: 13 pages. This file contains the following 4 items: EAP880/1/1/140/1: Copies of the ...