This slide talks about history of Sikkim

1.  Pre History of Sikkim
The history of Sikkim before 17th century is not well documented but it is said that somewhere in the 12th century a prince
name Guru Tashi in Tibet had a divine vision that he should go to south to seek his fortune in Denzong; the Guru Tashi along
with his family (Five son and his wife) headed towards south direction.
They came across Sakya kingdom during wandering in which a monastery being built at the time the worker had not been
successful in erecting pillars for the monastery. The elder son of Guru Tashi raise the pillar single handedly and thereby came
to be known as Khye Bumsa (superior of 10000 horses). The Sakya king offered his daughter in marriage to Khye Bumsa.
Guru Tashi subsequently died and Khye Bumas settled in Chumbi valley. Khye Bumsa had three sons. Tetong Tek and Khye
Bumsa became brother at Kabi Longtsok and this brotherhood brought new relationship between Bhutia and Lepcha. The
great grandson of Guru Tashi was Phuntsog and he became the first king of Sikkim.
The splitting between the yellow hat sect and the red hat sect of the Buddhist in Tibet had led to the followers of the letter flee
southward to Sikkim and Bhutan to escape prosecutions.
Out of the red hat sect saints who came to Sikkim in 17th century was lama Latsun Chumbo. After a long journey he reached a
place called Norbugang where he was meet by to other holy man called Sampa Chembo and Rinzing Chembo.
The place where they meet was later named as Yuksom “meeting place of 3 superior’’ the three holy man had the mission to
established a Buddhist monarchy in Sikkim.
At Gangtok they found Phunstok. Phunstok left form Yuksom with his family and followers and was consecrated as the king
of Sikkim in 1642 with the title of Chogyal (king). Capital was built at Yuksom itself.

2. Main History: Evolution of The State.
Sikkim was an independent kingdom ruled by Chogyals until 1975 when it became 22nd state of Indian union. The Chogyals
ruled Sikkim for 300 years and the history of Sikkim’s Chogyals dated back to 17th century. Until the Sikkim became the part of
India, the Chogyal were both laws and religions.
Palden Thondup Namgyal was the last king of Sikkim.
Chogyals of Sikkim
 Chogyal Phunstok Namgyal. (1604-1670): Ascendant and thrones was consecrated the first Chogyal of Sikkim, the capital
was Yuksom.
 Tensung Namgyal. (1644-1700): shifted capital to Rabdantse. Tensung Namgyal married thrice.
 Chakdor Namgyal. (1686-1717): Pendinongmu (half-sister) tried to dethrone Chakdor, who had to flee to Lasa, but was
reinstates as king with the help of Tibetans. Bhutan attacked to Sikkim and occupied Rabdantse. In this process, Kalimpong
which was a part of Sikkim was lost to Bhutan. He also introduced of sending one son from each family to the monastery
 Gurmed Namgyal. (1707-1780): Sikkim was attacked by Nepalis.
 Phunstok Namgyal. (1733_1780): Nepalis attacked Rabdanste-the capital of Sikkim. His reign was marked by an increase
in the Lepcha influence in Sikkimese court. Bhutan tried to occupy Sikkim, but the force of the country was drive back.
 Tenzing Namgyal. (1769-1793): Chogyal fled to Tibet and died there. Nepali attacked Rabdanse and the Chogyal has to flee
to Tibet. In the Sino-Nepal treaty, Sikkim lost some of its land to Nepal.
 Tsudphud Namgyal. (1785-1863): Capital shifted from rabdanse to Tunlong. Treaty of titalia in 1817 between Sikkim and
Bhutan was signed in which territories lost to Nepal was restored to Sikkim. Darjelling was gifted to British Indian 1835.

3.  Sidkeong Namgyal. (1819-1914): The British government started the payment of subsidy of Rs.6000/ in1850 for Darjelling. In
attempt to keep good relationship with Sikkim, the British enhanced subsidy to 12,000/- per annum.
 Thutob Namgyal. (1860-1914): Claude White Shifted from Tumlong to Gangtok in 1896. The British appointed Claud White
as a first political officer in Sikkim in1889 and Chogyal Thubop Namgyal was virtually under his supervision. In the memory
of Thutob Namgyal STNM Hospital in Gangtok was builds in1917.
 Sidkeong Tulku. (1876-1914): Unfortunately, he died in the same year of his father dies and he was the shortest live king in
the history of Sikkim.
 Tashi Namgyal. (1893-1963): treaty between Sikkim and India was signed in 1950.Tashi Namgyal abolished evil practices. In
this period world war 2 was going on and many Sikkimese participated in this war. Nathula pass was introduced to create good
trading system between Sikkim and china.
 Palden Thondup Namgyal. (1923-1982): Institution of Chogyals came to an end. He was the last king of Sikkim. On the 4th
September 1974 Kazi Lendup dorji was elected as chief minister of Sikkim. Capital of Sikkim is Gangtok.
 List of Chief minister of Sikkim after 1974.
 Kazi Lhendup Dorjee (16-May-1975 to 18-Aug-1979)
 Nar Bahadur Bhandari (18-Oct-1979 to 11-May-1984)
 B. B. Gurung (11-May-1984 to 25-May-1984)
 Nar Bahadur Bhandari (8-Mar-1985 to 17-Jun-1994)
 Sanchaman Limboo (17-Jun-1994 to 12-Dec-1994)
 Pawan Kumar Chamling (12-Dsec-1994 to 27-May-2019)
 Prem Singh Tamang (27-May-2019 to Present)