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The History of Darjeeling covers the history of Darjeeling town and its adjoining hill areas belonging to Sikkim, but eventually part of British India so now in the Indian state of West Bengal, which is intertwined with the history of Sikkim, Nepal, Bhutan, Bengal and Great Britain, i.e. the East India Company. Part of the state of Sikkim, Darjeeling became part of an important buffer state between Nepal and Bhutan. The British, using the area as a sanitorium, found that the climate provided excellent tea-cultivating conditions and soon began to grow tea on the hills of Darjeeling. Darjeeling tea remains a world-renowned export from Darjeeling. ==Early days== Darjeeling's name derives from a monastery called Dorje Ling which was built by the local tribals Denzongpas in 1765 on behalf of the Chogyal of Sikkim. It is said that it was formerly a place of worship of the Rongs where three stone stand erect (Lung-Chok) till today. "Dorje" means thunderbolt and "Ling" means place. Unfortunately the monastery was destroyed by the invading Gurkha Army in 1815. Darjeeling was originally a part of the Kingdom of Sikkim and was inhabited by the Lepchas, a tribe native to the area since the beginning of time, before being invaded by the Gorkhas who were able to subdue the combined indigenous Bhutia and Lepcha armies of Sikkim. The Gorkha army from Nepal invaded Darjeeling in the 1790s, attacked the Sikkimese capital of Rabdentse, and annexed territories up to the Teesta River into Nepal. After the Anglo-Gorkha War, Nepal ceded one-third of it territories to the British under the 1815 Sugauli Treaty, which included the land area between the Mechi and Teesta Rivers. On 10February 1817, the British returned the land area between the Mechi and Teesta to the Sikkimese Chogyal under the Treaty of Titalia. Migration of the Lepchas to Nepal took place after the assassination of Bho-Lod (Prime Minister of Sikkim). In 1826, Chogyal Tsedup Namgyal (on the advice of his mother who was a Lepcha herself) passed a resolution for the assassination of his Prime Minister - Bho-Lod. Bho-Lod was the maternal uncle to Tsedup Namgyal and the assassination of Bho-Lod was carried out by 'Lhachos' identified by Maharaja's history as the father of 'Cheebu Lama'. 'Cheebu Lama' was himself a Lepcha, his ancestry for 11 generations is given in the Gazetteer of Sikhim. The Lepchas at that time was not united. Those faithful to Bho-Lod sought refuge in Illam, where their descendants still reside to this day, from where they conducted raids on Darjeeling and Sikkim Terai. This event was known as the Kotapa insurrection which was eventually suppressed through British East India Company's assistance. More than a fallout between the two ethnic groups, it was basically a race for the prized throne. After 1826 the royal family chose its consorts from the aristocracy of Tibet and not from among its Lepcha subjects as prior to that. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of Darjeeling」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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