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Tibetan Tragedy Hits Kalimpong Market Hard
Kalimpong Indian traders report drastic demand losses as Tibetans face Chinese assimilation moves. News flow across Nathu La dwindles but confirms rising Chinese influence and a planned railway to Lhasa by 1962. Monasteries shrink as younger monks are sent to labor battalions amid Chinese自治 efforts.
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Kalimpong
India
Lhasa
Nathu la
Here
Red China
Tibet
Relia
Drepung
Sera
Ganden
Autonomous Region of
Dalai Lama