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Duar War, the Glossary

The Duar War (or Anglo-Bhutanese War) was a war fought between British India and Bhutan in 1864 to 1865.^[1]

Ashley Eden

Sir Ashley Eden (13 November 1831 – 8 July 1887) was an official and diplomat in British India.

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Assam

Assam is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.

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Bhutan

Bhutan (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia situated in the Eastern Himalayas between China in the north and India in the south.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.

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Cooch Behar

Cooch Behar, or Koch Bihar, is a city and a municipality lying on the bank of River Torsa in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Cooch Behar State

Cooch Behar, also known as Koch Bihar, was a princely state in India during the British Raj.

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Deothang

Deothang, also known as Dewathang, is a town in south-eastern Bhutan which falls under Samdrup Jongkhar District.

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Dewangiri

Dewangiri was a northern part of Kamrup, measuring, which was ceded to Bhutan, where it is called Deothang, in 1951.

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Dooars

The Dooars or Duars are the alluvial floodplains in eastern-northeastern India and southern Bhutan that lie south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas and north of the Brahmaputra River basin.

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Druk Desi

The Druk Desi (Wylie: 'brug sde-srid; also called Deb Raja)The original title is, Wylie: sde-srid phyag-mdzod.

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Dzong architecture

Dzong architecture is used for dzongs, a distinctive type of fortified monastery (རྫོང) architecture found mainly in Bhutan and Tibet.

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Dzongpen

Dzongpen (Dzongkha: རྗོང་དཔོན་; Wylie: rjong-dpon; also spelled "Dzongpon," "Dzongpön," "Jongpen," "Jongpon," "Jongpön") is a Dzongkha term roughly translated as governor or dzong lord.

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Foreign relations of Bhutan

Bhutan has diplomatic relations with 54 of 193 member states of the United Nations and the European Union.

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History of Bhutan

Bhutan's early history is steeped in mythology and remains obscure.

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John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence

John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, (4 March 1811 – 27 June 1879), known as Sir John Lawrence, Bt., between 1858 and 1869, was a prominent British Imperial statesman and served as the Viceroy of India from 1864 to 1869.

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Koch Hajo

Koch Hajo (1581–1616) was the kingdom under Raghudev and his son Parikshit Narayan of the Koch dynasty that stretched from Sankosh River in the west to the Bhareli River in the east on the north bank of the Brahmaputra River.

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Matchlock

A matchlock or firelock is a historical type of firearm wherein the gunpowder is ignited by a burning piece of flammable cord or twine that is in contact with the gunpowder through a mechanism that the musketeer activates by pulling a lever or trigger with their finger.

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Paro District

Paro District (Dzongkha: སྤ་རོ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: Spa-ro rdzong-khag) is a district (dzongkhag), valley, river and town (population 20,000) in Bhutan.

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Penlop

Penlop (Dzongkha: དཔོན་སློབ་; Wylie: dpon-slob; also spelled Ponlop, Pönlop) is a Dzongkha term roughly translated as provincial governor.

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Penlop of Trongsa

The Penlop of Trongsa (ཀྲོང་གསར་དཔོན་སློབ་), also called Chhoetse Penlop (Dzongkha: ཆོས་རྩེ་དཔོན་སློབ་; Wylie: Chos-rtse dpon-slob; also spelled "Chötse"),The spelling of this title varies widely in sources because transliterations of Tibetan script and transcriptions of Tibetan phonology differ.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.

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Punakha

Punakha (སྤུ་ན་ཁ་) is the administrative centre of Punakha dzongkhag, one of the 20 districts of Bhutan.

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Rupee

Rupee is the common name for the currencies of India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Seychelles, and Sri Lanka, and of former currencies of Afghanistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates (as the Gulf rupee), British East Africa, Burma, German East Africa (as Rupie/Rupien), and Tibet.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duar_War

Also known as Anglo-Bhutan War, Anglo-Bhutan War of 1864-65, Anglo-Bhutanese War, Bhutan Expedition, Bhutan Field Force, Bhutan War, Dooar War, Treaty of Sinchula.

Duar War, the Glossary

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See also

1864 in Bhutan

1864 in British India

1865 in Bhutan

1865 in British India

Bhutan–India relations

Bhutan–United Kingdom military relations

Conflicts in 1865

History of the Bengal Sappers

Military history of Bhutan

Wars involving Bhutan

Wars involving British India

References