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John Claude White, the Glossary

John Claude White (1October 18531918) was an engineer, photographer, author and civil servant in British India.^[1]

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Alumni of the Royal Indian Engineering College
British expatriates in Nepal
Engineers from British India
History of Sikkim
Photographers from British India

Aritar, Sikkim

Aritar is a region in the Pakyong District under Rongli Sub-Division of the Indian state of Sikkim.

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The Bengal Presidency, officially the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, later the Bengal Province, was the largest of all three presidencies of British India during Company rule and later a province of India.

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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 expedition to Tibet

The British expedition to Tibet, also known as the Younghusband expedition, began in December 1903 and lasted until September 1904.

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British Library

The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom.

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British protectorate

British protectorates were protectorates—or client states—under protection of the British Empire's armed forces and represented by British diplomats in international arenas, such as the Great Game, in which the Emirate of Afghanistan and the Tibetan Kingdom became protected states for short periods of time.

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British Residency

The British Residency, also known as the Government Guest House or Residency Bungalow, is a two-storeyed palace situated at Asramam in the city of Kollam in the Indian state of Kerala.

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Chogyal

The Chogyal ("Dharma Kings") were the monarchs of the former Kingdom of Sikkim, which belonged to the Namgyal dynasty.

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Chumbi Valley

The Chumbi Valley, called Dromo or Tromo in Tibetan, is a valley in the Himalayas that projects southwards from the Tibetan plateau, intervening between Sikkim and Bhutan.

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Convention of Calcutta

The Convention of Calcutta or Anglo-Chinese Convention of 1890, officially the Convention Between Great Britain and China Relating to Sikkim and Tibet, was a treaty between Britain and Qing China relating to Tibet and the Kingdom of Sikkim.

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Darjeeling

Darjeeling is a city in the northernmost region of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Francis Younghusband

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, (31 May 1863 – 31 July 1942) was a British Army officer, explorer and spiritual writer.

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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), styled The Honourable between 1858 and 1898, then known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911, and The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a prominent British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905.

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Governor-General of India

The governor-general of India (1833 to 1950, from 1858 to 1947 the viceroy and governor-general of India, commonly shortened to viceroy of India) was the representative of the monarch of the United Kingdom in their capacity as the Emperor/Empress of India and after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the Monarch of India.

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History of Sikkim

The history of Sikkim begins with the indigenous Lepcha's contact with early Tibetan settlers.

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History of Tibet

While the Tibetan plateau has been inhabited since pre-historic times, most of Tibet's history went unrecorded until the creation of Tibetan script in the 7th century.

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Indian Political Department

The Indian Political Department, formerly part of the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India, was a government department in British India.

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Kathmandu

Kathmandu, officially Kathmandu Metropolitan City, is the capital and most populous city of Nepal with 845,767 inhabitants living in 105,649 households as of the 2021 Nepal census and approximately 4 million people in its urban agglomeration.

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King's College London

King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England.

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Kingdom of Sikkim

The Kingdom of Sikkim (Classical Tibetan and འབྲས་ལྗོངས།, Drenjong), officially Dremoshong (Classical Tibetan and འབྲས་མོ་གཤོངས།) until the 1800s, was a hereditary monarchy in the Eastern Himalayas which existed from 1642 to 16 May 1975, when it was annexed by India. John Claude White and Kingdom of Sikkim are history of Sikkim.

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Kolkata

Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Lachen, Sikkim

Lachen is a town in Mangan District in the Indian state of Sikkim.

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Lachung

Lachung is a town and hill station in Mangan district in northeast Indian state of Sikkim.

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Lhasa

Lhasa, officially the Chengguan District of Lhasa City, is the inner urban district of Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region, Southwestern China.

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Nepal

Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.

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Old Yatung

Old Yatung, originally just "Yatung", with a native Tibetan spelling of Nyatong: "Miss Taylor returned with the object of converting the Tibetan people, and now lives at the town of Nyatong, which by some is called Yatung." or Myatong, is a location 2 miles west of Rinchengang in the lower Chumbi Valley in the present day Yadong County of Tibet.

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References

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

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Alumni of the Royal Indian Engineering College

British expatriates in Nepal

Engineers from British India

History of Sikkim

Photographers from British India

References