The Dominion of Sikkim was oriented with the Namgyal dynasty in the course of the seventeenth century that was headed by a Buddhist priest-king known as Chogyal. In 1890 it emerged being a principality underneath British Indian rule. Post-1947 Sikkim sustained its protectorate stature beneath the Republic of India. Sikkim https://g.co/kgs/U7Gp7yy