PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Kingdom
founded in 1642. Annexed to India (retroactive to 26 Apr 1975), 16 May
1975 . Rulers were...
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Chogyal PHUNTSONG NAMGYAL I 1642/1670, born 1604, died 1670.
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Chogyal TENSUNG NAMGYAL (son) 1670/1700, born 1644, married 2ndly Debasem
Serpa, and had issue. He died 1700.
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Chogyal CHAGGDOR NAMGYAL (qv)
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Shalngo Guru Namgyal
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Chogyal CHAGGDOR NAMGYAL 1700/1717, born 1686, died 1717.
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Chogyal GYURMED NAMGYAL 1717/1734, born 1707, died 1734 (4).
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Chogyal PHUNTSONG NAMGYAL II 1734/1780, born 1734, died 1780.
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Chogyal TENZIN NAMGYAL 1780/1793, born 1769, married Anyo Gyelyum and had
issue. He died 1793.
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Chogyal TSUGPHUD NAMGYAL 1793/1863, born 1785, married 2ndly sister of
the Tashi Llama, 5thly Menchi and had issue. He died 1863.
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HH Maharaja SIDKEONG TRULKU NAMGYAL I (by 2nd wife) (qv)
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HH Maharaja Sir THOTUB NAMGYAL (by 5th wife) (qv)
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HH Maharaja SIDKEONG TRULKU NAMGYAL I 1863/1874, born 1819, married Rani
Pending, died 1880. He died sp April 1874.
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HH Maharaja Sir THOTUB NAMGYAL 1874/1914, born 1860 (18515),
K.C.I.E., married 1stly 1874 Rani Pending, died 1880, and had issue. He
died 10th February 1914 (1)
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Tshodag Namgyal (ex Rani Pending), born 1878, died vpsp.
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Chogyal SIDKEONG TRULKU NAMGYAL II (ex Rani Pending) (qv)
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Chogyal TASHI NAMGYAL (qv)
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Chuni Wangmo Namgyal, born 1897, married Sonam Tobgye Dorji of Bhutan,
died September 1953 and had issue.
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HH Maharaja SIDKEONG TRULKU NAMGYAL II 1914 (February to December), born
1879, died sp 8th December 1914 (2).
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HH Maharaja Sir TASHI NAMGYAL 1914/1963, born 26th October 1893, C.I.E.
[cr.1918], K.C.I.E. [cr.1923], married 8th October 1918 HH Maharani Kunzang
Dechen, born 1906 and had issue. He died 2nd December 1963.
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Maharajkumar Kunzang Paljor Namgyal, born 1921, died 1941.
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HH Maharaja PALDEN THONDUP NAMGYAL (qv)
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Maharajkumari Pema Chandon Namgyal, born 6th September 1924.
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Maharajkumari Pema Choki Namgyal, born 25th December 1925.
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Maharajkumari Sonam Paduam Namgyal, born 27th May 1927, ?married? Kazi
Sonam Gyatso [?=Sonam Gyatso Rinpoche 1932-1988], and had issue.
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 Ven.
Gharwang Rinpoche, born 30th June 1965, 12th Incarnation of Zurmang, installed
1976.
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Maharjkumar Jigdal Tsewing Namgyal, born 23rd August 1928.
HH Chogyal PALDEN THONDUP NAMGYAL 1963/1982, born 22nd May 1923 in Gangtok,
studied monk hood 1931/1934 under his uncle, Lhatsun Rimpoche, when he
was recognised as the spiritual leader of Phodong and Rumtek monasteries
in succession to Chogyal Sidkeong, continued his studies at St. Joseph’s
College, Darjeeling 1935, and completed his studies at Bishop Cotton School,
Simla in 1941, undertook the Indian Civil Service Training Course at Dehra
Dun in 1942, was connected with a number of cultural and academic bodies
in Sikkim, India and abroad, President of the Mahabodhi Society of India
since 1953 and he led the Sikkim delegation to the Sixth Buddhist Council
that was held in Burma in 1954, participated in the 2500 Buddha Jayanti
Celebrations in India in 1956, and was the only member of the Working Committee
from Sikkim, represented Sikkim at the Sixth World Fellowship of Buddhists
conference in Cambodia in 1961, awarded O.B.E. [cr.1947], Padma Vibushan,
India [1954] and Commander De L’ordre de L’étoile Noire, France
[1956], married August 1950 HH Maharani Samyo Kushoe Sangay Deki, daughter
of Yapshi Samdu Phodrang of Tibet, died 17th June 1957, 2ndly 20th March
1963 (div. 1980) Hope Cooke, born 24th June 1940 in San Francisco (3)
granddaughter and ward of Mr. and Mrs. Winchester Noyes (USA), and had
issue. He died 29th January 1982 in New York.
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Maharajkumar Tenzing Kunzang Jiqui Namgyal, Crown Prince of Sikkim 1963/1978,
died sp 11th March 1978 aged 26 near Gangtok, Sikkim..
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HH Chogyal WANGCHUK NAMGYAL (qv)
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Maharajkumari Yangchen Dolma Namgyal
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Maharajkumar Palden Gyurmed Namgyal, born 20th February 1964.
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Maharajkumari Hope Leezum Namgyal, engaged in 1991 to Thomas Reich Jnr
(US Diplomat).
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HH Chogyal WANGCHUK NAMGYAL (see above)
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