24 HISTORY OF SIKHIM AND ITS RULERS. 



Neither Cho-phoe nor Sikyong Rajas appear to have taken much 

 interest in the administration, and so in consequence of their relation- 

 ship by marriage and birth, first Dewan Namgay and after his banish- 

 ment, in a lesser degree, Changzed Kar-po became the really influen- 

 tial personages in the State. Dewan Namgay* was anti-English in 

 feeling and conduct, while Changzed, on the other hand, pretended 

 much sympathy for the English. 



In 1873 Raja Sikyong Namgy^, accompanied by his half-brother, 

 the present Raja Thothub Namgye, and his half-sister Seringputti, 

 and Changzed Geloug Kar-po, visited Sir George Campbell, then 

 Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, at Darjeeling. 



Raja Sikyong Namgyel died in April 1874, and unsuccessful 

 intrigues were attempted to set aside the accession of Thothub 

 Namgye in favour of Tinle Namgy^ (born in 1866), but were 

 defeated by the prompt action of the then Deputy Commissioner of 

 Darjeeling, Mr. J. Ware Edgar (now Sir John Edgar). 



mTHU-sTOBS-rNAM-rGYAL 



(Tho-tub Namgye) was born in 1860, and on the death of his 

 half-brother both ascended his throne and married his widow, a lady 

 of Tashelhunpo by name Pending. She died in childbirth in 1880, 

 leaving three children by Thothub, viz., a daughter, Namgyel Uumo, 

 born in 1876, and two sons; the elder Tchoda-Namgy^, heir to the 

 Raj, born in 1877, and the younger Chotal, born in 1879, supposed 

 to be the incarnation at Phodang of Sikyong Namgyel. 



In October 1875 Sir Richard Temple had a friendly interview 

 with the Raja and Changzed Kar-po at Chomnaga near the Cho-la 

 pass. At this interview the Raja expressed his desire that the British 

 Government should undertake arrangements for the conservation of 

 the sal, pine, and other forests in his territory, but nothing was 

 actually carried out. 



The Maharaja was invited to be present at the Imperial Assem- 

 blage at Delhi on the 1st Januaiy 1877, but as he was unable to 

 attend, his banner, medal, and ring were duly presented to him at 

 Tumlong by Mr. Edgar mentioned above. 



Some complications which had arisen as far back as 1872 

 between one Luchmee Das Prodhan, the head of the Nepalese 

 Newars in Darjeeling, and the Lassoo Kazi, the Sikhim Vakil in 

 Darjeeling, but had been smoothed over, again became prominent 

 in 1878, so that in November of that year the present Raja and 



* Died in 1888. 



