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- ↑ "Witness to Change in Sikkim". Sikkim Express. 8 October 2020. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- ↑ "The Life and Times of a Plantsman in the Sikkim Himalayas A Memoir". ECS Nepal (93). July 2010. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
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