Talk:Sikkim

Semi-protected edit request on 26 February 2023

Ganga Prasad is no longer governor of Sikkim as of 12th February 2023.

Governor of Sikkim is now referenced as Lakshman Acharya.

Source - https://web.archive.org/web/20230212165153/https://www.voiceofsikkim.com/lakshman-prasad-acharya-is-sikkims-new-governor/

Individual's pages have this information up to date, but the section 'Government and Politics' still references Ganga Prasad as current governor. CartagoDelendaEst (talk) 14:59, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Done. --Mvqr (talk) 13:58, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 4 March 2023

For capital and largest city, the format must be like this: | seat_type = Capital
and largest city | seat =

49.146.22.36 (talk) 06:09, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: Your proposed change will display "Gangtok and largest city". Changing the "seat_type" to "Capital and largest city" would make the parameter too long M.Bitton (talk) 14:42, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

Infobox replacement

The {{Infobox settlement}} used on this page is going to be replaced with {{Infobox Indian state or territory}} as per the Proposal and Consensus of RFC. Any questions/suggestions? Discuss Here.

You can also contribute by replacing Infobox settlement with Infobox Indian state or territory on other pages , or by improving this one. Tojoroy20 (talk) 22:34, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

 Done Replaced — Tojoroy20 (talk) 19:54, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Infobox Picture Order

This is very minor, but the order of the pictures is wrong in the infobox caption. The pictures are stated as being in clockwise order from the top left. However, the Temi Tea Garden picture should come before Rumtek Monastery in clockwise order, and in the infobox, they are reversed.

2601:5CC:C500:F470:29E3:C130:58D4:3848 (talk) 00:55, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

Please add "Sikhim" as obsolete toponym

in some references the area is referred to by Sikhim, please add this as a previous name. See, for example, https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sikhim and https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Sikhim_and_Bhutan. 2600:1013:B024:FE8F:3498:3774:CD33:6364 (talk) 17:45, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

India "bent on annexation"

I have deleted the clause "Despite pressures from an India "bent on annexation"", which was apparently sourced to New York Times 1981. That was really a story on Hope Cook, the erstwhile queen of Sikkim, but pretending to be objective history. This kind of royalist nonsense can be found through the journalistic writings on Sikkim.

See the demographic data, which shows Sikkimese at 6.86% of the population. That is the community to which the king belonged. How long such a tiny minority community can hold on to power through autocratic means, is anybody's guess.

A scholarly source says this:

It is ironical that the Chogyal's firmest ally from 1950 to 1973 had been the Indian Government, who in a way had protected him from the people for its own pragmatic ends. Without the Indian shield the Chogyal was cast aside in a tremendous upsurge of anti-Bhutia and anti-royalist feeling.

It was because of India's support that the king retained power for as long as he did. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 02:11, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

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