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Smash and Grab: Annexation of Sikkim

Smash and Grab: Annexation of Sikkim

K. Datta-Ray, Sunanda

Paperback

General Political ScienceSocial Movements

Publisher Price: $39.99

ISBN10: 936045558X
ISBN13: 9789360455583
Publisher: Westland Non Fiction
Published: Jan 27 2026
Pages: 504
Weight: 1.23
Height: 1.01 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.25
Language: English

About the Book

AN INTIMATE AND GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF THE LAST DAYS OF THE HIMALAYAN KINGDOM OF SIKKIM THAT BECAME INDIA'S TWENTY-SECOND STATE.

This book made history. It wasn't banned, not quite, when it first appeared in 1984, but its disappearance was cleverly managed so that few got to read the only authentic account of how a protected kingdom became India's twenty-second state. As the Hon. David Astor, editor of The Observer in London, wrote, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray was 'alone in witnessing and communicating the essential story'. He had to surmount many obstacles and incur severe disapproval to do so. Nearly thirty years later, in 2013, a revised edition was published with a long introduction by the author, and now all these years later, the book still reads like an exciting thriller. Rich with dances and durbars, lamaist rituals, intrigue and espionage, it brings vividly to life the dramatis personae of this Himalayan drama-Sikkim's sad last king, Chogyal Palden Thondup Namgyal, and his vivacious American queen, Hope Cooke; bumbling Kazi Lendhup Dorji and his scheming Kazini, whose nationality and even name were shrouded in mystery, and who played into the hands of more powerful strategists.

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