BhutanandAND⤬THE JUNCTION
4 SHARED EVENTSIndia

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.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · BTN LEFT · IND RIGHT

1. 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 · REFS 2 — Bhutan — History, Nepal and Bhutan: Country Studies

2. 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 · REFS 2 — Bhutan — History, Nepal and Bhutan: Country Studies

3. 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 · REFS 1 — Bhutan country profile

4. 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 · REFS 1 — Bhutan country profile