Sidkeong Namgyal

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{{About|the king of Sikkim from 1863 to 1874|the Sikkim king in 1914|Sidkeong Tulku Namgyal}}

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|caption = Chogyal Sidkeong Namgyal in Darjeeling

|reign = 1863 – 1874

|succession = Chogyal of Sikkim

|predecessor = Tsugphud Namgyal

|successor = Thutob Namgyal

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|house = Namgyal dynasty

|father = Tsugphud Namgyal

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Sidkeong Namgyal (Sikkimese: {{bo-textonly|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.Rao, P. Raghunadha (1978). Sikkim, the Story of Its Integration with India. Cosmo[https://books.google.com/books?id=L7gIVNzkN2YC&dq=Chakdor+Namgyal&pg=PA80 Sikkim: Past and Present edited by H. G. Joshi]

His mother was the second wife of his father, a Tibetan lady, sister of the Tashi Lama.{{cn|date=June 2020}}

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.[https://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/bot/pdf/bot_2009_02_02.pdf 1861 history

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Category:1819 births

Category:1874 deaths

Category:Monarchs of Sikkim

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