This postage stamp from the country of Bhutan issued in late 70s is probably the only postage stamps in the world of philately that showed Sikkim as an Independent Country. You can closely see an Independent Sikkim, below it India while East Pakistan now Bangladesh just beneath it. Bhutan is right to Sikkim in white while Tibet on its top.
You may be interested in my article in Stamp Magazine April 2008 (volume 74 no.4 page) which is mainly about a philatelic visit to Bhutan but also has a small piece about a short visit to Pelling and Gangtok in Sikkim and which features relevant photographs including Mount Khatchamdzunga as photographed from Pelling and the featured 15ch value of the first Bhutanese stamp which as far as I know is indeed the only stamp to depict a map showing an independent Sikkim. But why, I wonder, did Sikkim never issue postage stamps unlike other Indian princely states? Graham Knight.
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