Ram Gauri Sangralaya is a museum in
Rhenock
Rhenock () is a town, just 29 km from Pakyong, Pakyong City in the Pakyong district in Sikkim, India, located on the border with the Kalimpong district of West Bengal. It lies 63 kilometres east of Gangtok, and 47 kilometres north of Kalimpong on ...
Bazar near Thakurbari Mandir (temple), in the administrative district of
Pakyong District in the
India
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state
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Sikkim
Sikkim ( ; ) is a States and union territories of India, state in northeastern India. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the north and northeast, Bhutan in the east, Koshi Province of Nepal in the west, and West Bengal in the ...
. Sangralaya is home of the ''Sikkim Herald'', the first government newspaper of Sikkim, which also collects stamps, coins, and newspapers. The Museum documents the political history of Sikkim.
Sikkim- A Look Back View: RamGauri Sangrahalaya - The Only Private Museum of Sikkim
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Collection
The Museum has a large volume of documents related to the political development of the former Himalayan Kingdom of Sikkim. It has a collection of various tax receipts paid by the Sikkimese peasantry to their feudal lords
Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring societ ...
in the pre-merger period, banks receipt issued by Bhojraj and Jethmul Bank (the first bank of Sikkim), the entire volume of Kanchenjunga
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(the first news-based journal of Sikkim) various antiques like telegram machines, gramophones, antique locks and keys, utensils, radios, and clocks.
References
Pakyong district
Tourist attractions in Sikkim
Museums in Sikkim
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