INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND BHUTAN. AMENDED TREATY.
By Telegraph. — Press Association.— Copyright. (Received March 28, 9 a.m.) CALCUTTA, 27th March. An amended treaty has been signed, under which Bhutan is to receive one hundred thousand rupees annually. She undertakes to follow British advice in connection with external relations. Bhutan is a small independent State in the Eastern Himalayas, bounded on the north-east and nortn-west by Tibet, and on the south by British India. The population is mostly Buddhist and Mongolian. Up to the present, the Indian Government has been paying the Maharaja of Bhutan (Sir Upyen Wangehuk, K.C.1.E.) a subsidy of 56,000 rupees.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 72, 28 March 1910, Page 7
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