Sidkeong Namgyal

Sidkeong Namgyal
Chogyal of Sikkim
Reign1863 – 1874
PredecessorTsugphud Namgyal
SuccessorThutob Namgyal
Born1819
Died1874
HouseNamgyal dynasty
FatherTsugphud Namgyal
ReligionBuddhism

Sidkeong Namgyal (Sikkimese: སྲིད་སཀྱོང་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་; Wylie: srid skyong rnam rgyal) (1819–1874) was king of Sikkim from 1863 to 1874. He was son of Tsugphud Namgyal and was succeeded by his half-brother Thutob Namgyal.[1][2]

His mother was the second wife of his father, a Tibetan lady, sister of the Tashi Lama.[citation needed]

It was Sidkeong Namgyal who signed the Treaty of Tumlong with the British in 1861, his father having abdicated rather than return to surrender to the force of Sir Ashley Eden.[3]

  1. ^ Rao, P. Raghunadha (1978). Sikkim, the Story of Its Integration with India. Cosmo
  2. ^ Sikkim: Past and Present edited by H. G. Joshi
  3. ^ [https://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/bot/pdf/bot_2009_02_02.pdf 1861 history