The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c15.58
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c15.58
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The people of Sikkim, the native state in the hills beyond Darjeeling, are highlanders of Mongolian stock and not Indian. They are of Buddhist religion like the Burmans, and not Hindu or Muhammadan like the inhabitants of the plains. They are small sturdy folk, with oblique cut eyes and a Chinese expression, and they have the easy going humourous character of the Burmans, though not the delicacy and civilisation of those inhabitants of the sunny lowland.