Side by side
Bhutan and India compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
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- 41
- Domains
- 9
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- 4
- Data through
- 2026-08-11
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Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.
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Entangled histories
4 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.
- 1864–1865
The Duar War with British India
After a failed British mission and disputes over the southern duars, Britain and Bhutan fight a five-month war that ends in Bhutanese defeat.
War & Rupture · from the Bhutan chronicle · Civil Strife and the British Treaties · Bhutan — History, Nepal and Bhutan: Country Studies
- 11 Nov 1865
Treaty of Sinchula
Bhutan cedes the Bengal and Assam duars to British India in exchange for an annual subsidy, fixing its modern southern border and binding it to the Raj.
Colonisation · from the Bhutan chronicle · Civil Strife and the British Treaties · Bhutan — History, Nepal and Bhutan: Country Studies
- 1949
The treaty with independent India
Delhi guarantees non-interference in Bhutan's internal affairs while retaining influence over its foreign relations — the terms of British Punakha, inherited by a new republic.
Politics & Power · from the Bhutan chronicle · Founding of the Wangchuck Monarchy · Bhutan country profile
- 2007
The treaty with India revised
A new agreement gives Bhutan more say over its own foreign and defence policy, loosening a constraint carried from 1910 through 1949.
Politics & Power · from the Bhutan chronicle · Democracy and the Modern Kingdom · Bhutan country profile