Himalayan Times (1953)

September 27, 1953 SSimalatja* ILimta Three

KALIMPONG CONDOLES RAJA BQRJI’S
PASSING AWAY

Glowing Tributes By Citizens
Kalimpong,

A public meetr g was
held this'after.ico'i m the
local Town H ill io condole
the sad passing away of
Raja S. T. I) >rji, Deb
Zimpon of Bhutan. Sri
A. B. Gurunp, Bar at-Law,
Kx-M. P. was in tile cha r

Sri Deo Cliand Mintrl,
Sri Ram Krishna Sharma,
Sm J. B Sapkcta. Rev. G
Tharchin and Sri ' esari
(.hand Banthia paid glow-
i> g tributes to tin- late
Raja Do'ji and m >de fee-
11 n > references to his i.nanv
qualities.

Sri Suresh Jain moved
the condolence reolulo-
which was unaui-; ouslv
adopted, all standing m
si t m e for a minute.

After the Chairman had
also spokep a few chosen
words r'eneeii' g he simpli-
city a’d svmpatl'ei e alii-
tmie of ti e late R.-j . Dorji
the meeting .terminated,
wuh a vote .of thanks to
the chair.

The whole of Kaiimpog
Bazar, all educational ins-
titutions in the town and'
Govt and semi-government
offices Were closed to-dnv
as a mark of respect for
the. departed soul

September 25

LIFE SKETCH

Born in Kalimpoiig on
the 14-th day of Decem-
ber, 1397 the Raja began
his. education with Dr.
Grahams and Dr Suther-
land and later studied
at St Paul’s College,
Darjeeling Before he was
hardly twenty his father
Raja Ugen Dorji died
in 1917 leaving him to
should- r heavy responsi
bilities at a very young
age.

In 1918 he married the
Princess C.hnni Ongmo,.
sister of His Highness
the present Maharaja 6f
Sikkim and has three sons
and two daughters all of
whom are well educa-
ted and widely travelled.
Following the demise of
his father the Rttja Dorji
was appointed Deb-
Z:mpon of Bhutan l>v H i's-
Highness tbe Drills Gyal-
po and for sometime he
also acted a9 agent to
the Government of Bhu-
tan in India: The ,!ri

t.ish Government confer-
red <in him ih- titles,
of Raja and C IE.

A lsecn ■ riorbman Raja
Doiji was the life and snttl

SIKKIM MAHARAjKUMAR
' ARRIVES AT BHUTAN-HOUSE

Kalimpoiig, Sept, 26
Hearing the sad news
of the demise"-of Raja

T. Dorji the Maharaja
Ku • ar of Sikkim accom-
panied by his wife, has
arrived at the Bhutan House
here today.

Amongst others from
Sikkim who called at the
Bhutan- House today were
Major B, K. Kapoor, the
Poht cal Officer in Sikkim,
Rai BahadurT.D. Densappa,
Mrs. J, S'. Lai, wife of. the-
De-van of Si’ kim, and Rai
Bahadur Sunam . Topdun,
the Tibet Liaison Officer.

SIKKIM SOLDIERS’
BOARD

With great sorrow the
Board.likPs to inform its
wellwishers the death of a
-stanch supporter of the
Board Ilony. Lieut. Siri-
bahadtir ' Limboo Sardap
Bahadur at his residsnce
at Natnehi, Gangtok on 24th
Sept. 53 at p. m The
funeral was well attended
by local people and a nuni-
ber of Officials from Gang-
tok 1 -

of several public institu-
tions in the district of
Darjeeling and most of
his charities were kept
behind the curtain.

He passed away at
Bhutan Hcuso, Kalim-
pong on Thursday, Sep-
tember 24. 19 3 at 3.54
p m.

ts,

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