Smash and grab : annexation of Sikkim
"Governments the world over sometimes have to take morally indefensible action to protect national interests. But seldom are such measures clothed in the righteousness that seemed to sanctify every excess in Sikkim. So successful was the propaganda that no one in India deemed it necessary even to question the official picture of an enslaved people struggling against a tyrannical king. Nor did anyone think of asking at the end of the painful saga when the king had unceremoniously been removed and the kingdom ceased to exist, whether the Sikkimese had gained any freedoom under an Indian governor who was far more powerful than the Chogyal had ever been."-- Preface
Print Book, English, 1985
Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, 1985