To bid adieu to JC White, Political Officer, Sikkim
To
John Claude White Esquire, CIE,
Political Officer, Sikkim.
Sir,
We, the undersigned Nepalese Landholders of Sikkim, beg most respectfully to approach you on the eve of your departure from our midst, and venture to hope that you will be graciously pleased to accept this humble tribute of gratitude from a class of people who owes a great deal to your benign administration.
A short while ago when a rumour was afloat that you were leaving Sikkim for good, we refused to place any credence in it, but alas! we now find it is too true. After enjoying the benefit of your benign administration for nearly 20 years, we are now to lose a real benefactor, a loss which we consider irreparable.
Prior to your taking over the exalted position you have held in Sikkim, we had neither road nor bridges. But ever since your advent you have constructed a large number of good roads and bridges all over the country and have thus ensured facility of traffic which was quite unknown in this region – a facility which has vastly improved the Commerce and Industry of this State. This will for ever be a living monument to your administration of Sikkim and you will be gratefully remembered by its people for this act alone, if not for anything else.
Besides traffic facilities, you have conferred upon Sikkim many other blessings too numerous to detail in a short address like this. Permit us, however, to maintain a few. You have founded Charitable Dispensaries, established Nepalese and Bhutia Schools and Boarding houses, opened weaving schools, laid out beautiful vegetable and fruit gardens and encouraged gardening by a free distribution of seeds and grafts, and above all you have always guided and helped us by your invaluable advice and counsel. Your large heartedness, your impartiality in dealing with the various tribes living in this locality, Nepalese, Bhutias, Lepchas and others, your unique love for justice, your affable, courteous and kind manners, are household words in Sikkim.
To bid adieu to such an Officer who has endeared himself to every class and creed of the people of Sikkim is a matter of great grief to us. But you have decided to retire after along and honourable service and we feel that none has deserved rest better than yourself. May you enjoy the rest you have so richly earned. We venture to hope, however, that even in your retirement you will not forget us but will still continue to do us what good you can from the good old country where you are going.
We most fervently pray to the Great god of Heaven and Earth that He may shower upon you and yours His choicest blessings.
We have the honour to
Subscribe ourselves, Sir,
Your most obedient servants,
HARI DASS PRODHAN, RAI SAHEB,
LAMBODAR PRODHAN, RAI SAHEB,
TULSI DASS PRODHAN,
KALOORAM PRODHAN,
LATCHMI NARAIN PRODHAN,
DIRGHABUR PRODHAN,
DALBAHADUR PRODHAN,
SHREEBAHADUR PRODHAN,
RATNA BAHADUR PRODHAN,
DURGA SHAMSHER PRODHAN,
HEERA LALL PRODHAN,
on their own behalf and on
behalf of other
GANGTOK, Nepalese Residents of Sikkim.
SIKKIM,
The 27th June 1908.
H. C. Gangooly & Co., Printers, Calcutta.
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Courtesy: Beryl Hartley, Great grand-daughter of Sir J.C. White, Oxford University, England – 26.10.07
Through: K. C. Pradhan, Gangtok – Sikkim 23.11.08
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Text from the original reproduced in www.newarsinsikkim.org
John Claude White Esquire, CIE,
Political Officer, Sikkim.
Sir,
We, the undersigned Nepalese Landholders of Sikkim, beg most respectfully to approach you on the eve of your departure from our midst, and venture to hope that you will be graciously pleased to accept this humble tribute of gratitude from a class of people who owes a great deal to your benign administration.
A short while ago when a rumour was afloat that you were leaving Sikkim for good, we refused to place any credence in it, but alas! we now find it is too true. After enjoying the benefit of your benign administration for nearly 20 years, we are now to lose a real benefactor, a loss which we consider irreparable.
Prior to your taking over the exalted position you have held in Sikkim, we had neither road nor bridges. But ever since your advent you have constructed a large number of good roads and bridges all over the country and have thus ensured facility of traffic which was quite unknown in this region – a facility which has vastly improved the Commerce and Industry of this State. This will for ever be a living monument to your administration of Sikkim and you will be gratefully remembered by its people for this act alone, if not for anything else.
Besides traffic facilities, you have conferred upon Sikkim many other blessings too numerous to detail in a short address like this. Permit us, however, to maintain a few. You have founded Charitable Dispensaries, established Nepalese and Bhutia Schools and Boarding houses, opened weaving schools, laid out beautiful vegetable and fruit gardens and encouraged gardening by a free distribution of seeds and grafts, and above all you have always guided and helped us by your invaluable advice and counsel. Your large heartedness, your impartiality in dealing with the various tribes living in this locality, Nepalese, Bhutias, Lepchas and others, your unique love for justice, your affable, courteous and kind manners, are household words in Sikkim.
To bid adieu to such an Officer who has endeared himself to every class and creed of the people of Sikkim is a matter of great grief to us. But you have decided to retire after along and honourable service and we feel that none has deserved rest better than yourself. May you enjoy the rest you have so richly earned. We venture to hope, however, that even in your retirement you will not forget us but will still continue to do us what good you can from the good old country where you are going.
We most fervently pray to the Great god of Heaven and Earth that He may shower upon you and yours His choicest blessings.
We have the honour to
Subscribe ourselves, Sir,
Your most obedient servants,
HARI DASS PRODHAN, RAI SAHEB,
LAMBODAR PRODHAN, RAI SAHEB,
TULSI DASS PRODHAN,
KALOORAM PRODHAN,
LATCHMI NARAIN PRODHAN,
DIRGHABUR PRODHAN,
DALBAHADUR PRODHAN,
SHREEBAHADUR PRODHAN,
RATNA BAHADUR PRODHAN,
DURGA SHAMSHER PRODHAN,
HEERA LALL PRODHAN,
on their own behalf and on
behalf of other
GANGTOK, Nepalese Residents of Sikkim.
SIKKIM,
The 27th June 1908.
H. C. Gangooly & Co., Printers, Calcutta.
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Courtesy: Beryl Hartley, Great grand-daughter of Sir J.C. White, Oxford University, England – 26.10.07
Through: K. C. Pradhan, Gangtok – Sikkim 23.11.08
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Text from the original reproduced in www.newarsinsikkim.org
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