A Russia-sponsored referendum vote in the autonomous Ukrainian province of Crimea on March 16 resulted in a strong preference for secession and assimilation into the Russian Federation. Although the ...

After India’s independence, princely states had the option to accede to India or Pakistan, and in certain cases, like those of Hyderabad and Kashmir, a decision was not immediate. Such was the case ...

King Palden Thondup Namgyal, the last Chogyal (monarch) of Sikkim with his wife Hope Cooke. Nearly half-a-century after the overthrow of Palden Thondup Namgyal, the 12 th and last Chogyal of Sikkim ...

As 2015 draws to a close, it is worth remembering that it marks a forgotten but important anniversary in the history of India and Sino-Indian relations. Forty years ago, in 1975, the princely state of ...

India, May 16 -- The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today extended greetings to the people of Sikkim on the occasion of the State's Statehood Day, marking a historic milestone as Sikkim ...

As a debutante and a Sarah Law rence graduate (in Oriental studies), Hope Cooke had a crush on Central Asia. Her dreams seemed to come ro mantically true last March when she married Sikkim’s Crown ...

Down through the years, as the zing of arrows gave way to the boom of the bomb, the people who live on the roof of the world never complained about all the noise down below. All they asked was to be ...