Dr. Bal Gopal Shrestha is presently working on the Nepalese Diaspora in United Kingdom and Belgium in the University of Oxford, UK. He was in Sikkim in 2004 for a three month research study and his findings were first appeared in the above mentioned article in the Bulletin of Tibetology Volume 41 NO. 1 May 2005. Nepali version of this research paper has been brought out in Newar : Haami Yastai Chhaun (ISBN: 978-81-89602-01-7 / 2010 Karuna Devi Smarak Dharmarth Guthi).
This is first ever study of the kind and many more could be possible if some scholar still do serious research on the contributions of the Newars since they reached Sikkim centuries ago.
In 1930s, Dr. Paras Mani Pradhan first wrote on Taksari Chandrabir Pradhan and about the Chandra Nursery started in his memory by his sons, Rai Saheb Ratna Bahadur Pradhan and Babu Durga Shamsher Pradhan in 1910 and included it in school text books for spreading the message far and wide of his contributions against all odds in the unknown hilly terrains of thick forests, infested with ferocious animals and hostile environment overcoming all to make it his new home land, Sikkim.
Only photoghraph of Taksari Chandrabir (Kasaju) Pradhan known to the family
Source: The Gates of Thibet by J.A.H. Louis, Calcutta, 1894
Rhenock Kazi and Chandrabir sitting at centre. J.A.H. Louis standing left. Rhenock Bazar September 1893. Reproduced courtesy Keshab C. Pradhan from his Memoir - The Life and Times of a Plantsman in the Sikkim Himalayas, 2008