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{{Infobox settlement
|official_name= Tashicholing Gewog
|other_name = Sipsu Gewog
|native_name= བཀྲིས་ཙོས་གླིང་
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'''Tashicholing'''{{efn|Alternative spellings: '''Tashichholing''' and '''Tashichhoeling'''.}} ({{langx|dz|བཀྲིས་ཙོས་གླིང་|translit=bkris tsos gling }}) or '''Sipsu''' Gewog<ref>
{{citation |title=Tashichholing Gewog |publisher=Samtse Dzongkhag Administration |url=http://www.samtse.gov.bt/index.php/gewog/tashichholing-sibsoo-gewog/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180312231341/http://www.samtse.gov.bt/index.php/gewog/tashichholing-sibsoo-gewog/ |archive-date=12 March 2018}}
</ref><ref name="Dzongkhag"/>{{efn|Alternative spellings: '''Sibsu''', '''Sibsoo''' and '''Sibchoo'''.}}
is a [[gewog]] (village block) of the [[Samtse District]], [[Bhutan]].<ref name="delimitation"/>

== Geography ==
[[File:Sibsu post office 03 2009 DSC03810 439kb.jpg|thumb|left|Post office in the Sipsu town]]
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The gewog is to the south of [[Pemaling Gewog|Pemaling]] gewog and southwest of [[Namgaychhoeling Gewog|Namgaychhoeling]] gewog. It is bordered by India's [[West Bengal]] state in the west and the south ([[Kalimpong district|Kalimpong]] and [[Jalpaiguri district|Jalpaiguri]] districts). The [[Dichu River|Dichu]] (or Jaldhaka) River forms the western border of the gewog, and the rivers Sipsu Jhora and Sati Khola flow through it before joining Dichu at the southwestern corner.

The Tashichholing Gewog occupies an area of {{convert|27.67|km2}}.
It has 11 villages in 4 chiwogs.<ref name=Dzongkhag/>
In 2012, it had a population of 4,087.<ref name="eleventh plan"/>

== History ==
The village of Sipsu (also spelt Sibsu, Sibsoo and Sipchoo) had some encounters in history, as it appears to have been the seat of administration of the surrounding Dichu basin. In the 19th century, it was governed by [[Dzongpen|deputy Dzongpön]], perhaps under the control of a main Dzongpön at [[Dalingkot]] to the west.{{sfnp|Rennie, Bhotan and the Dooar War|1866|pp=74–75}} The official spent the winter months at Sipsu and the summer months at '''Dzongsa Dzong''',{{efn|Alternative spellings: '''Jongtsa''', '''Jonksa''', '''Dzongsar''' and '''Jumsatar'''. It is currently in the Dawathang_Kuengaling chiwog in the [[Tendu Gewog]].}} which was six miles to the north.<ref>
{{citation |last=Eden |first=Ashley |title=Report on the State of Bootan and on the Progress of the Mission of 1863–1864 |publisher=Government of India |year=1864 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.99245/page/n83 |via=archive.org |page=67}}</ref>
Sipsu was bordered in the east by [[Sangbay]], which also had a Dzongpön. The two districts were separated by the Tulela ridge.{{sfnp|Rennie, Bhotan and the Dooar War|1866|pp=76–78}}

In 1863, the [[Ashley Eden#Public life|Eden Mission]] of British India, sent to negotiate an agreement with Bhutan regarding border relations, passed through Sipsu. The Bhutanese were reluctant to receive Eden and placed obstacles in his path. The porters hired by Eden in [[Darjeeling]] came as far as Sipsu, where they deserted him for fear of the Bhutanese.{{sfnp|Phuntsho, The History of Bhutan|2013|loc="The mission took the route to Haa via Sibsoo, where coolies again deserted them and Eden had to reduce his escort to fifteen men. The main reason for desertion, Eden says, was the fear of the Bhutanese, whom 'they looked upon as a race of murderers and robbers'."}} Eden was given the impression that he would be able to obtain new porters at Sipsu, but the village was too small to offer any.{{sfnp|Rennie, Bhotan and the Dooar War|1866|pp=73–74}} The Deputy Dzongpön of Sipsu told Eden that he had no orders to allow him entry into Bhutan, and could offer no assistance. Undeterred, Eden left most of his entourage and supplies at Sipsu, and proceeded with a smaller contingent via Tule La and Sangbay, towards [[Ha, Bhutan|Ha]].{{sfnp|Rennie, Bhotan and the Dooar War|1866|pp=74–75}} The Mission eventually reached the Bhutanese capital [[Punakha]], but it was not successful, and led to further frictions and the [[Anglo-Bhutan War]] of 1864.

The war did not see any action at Sipsu, but Dalingkot faced an attack by British troops, and quickly fell, while there was a serious battle at [[Samtse]].<ref>{{harvp|Rennie, Bhotan and the Dooar War|1866|pp=178–179}}. Samtse is spelt "Sumchee" and it is clubbed with "Chamoorchee" (Chamurchi).</ref> At the end of the war, the Treaty of Sinchula (1865) was signed, in which unspecified "hill territory" of Dalingkot was ceded to the British as were all the [[duars]] to the south in return for an annual payment.<ref name="Darjeelingnews.net">{{cite web |title=History of Kalimpong |publisher=Darjeeling News Service |url=http://www.darjeelingnews.net/kalimpong_history.html |access-date=17 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070205043810/http://darjeelingnews.net/kalimpong_history.html |archive-date=5 February 2007 }}</ref> In 1866–1867 an Anglo-Bhutanese commission demarcated the borders, and set the Dichu and Nichu{{efn|Nichu is a tributary of Dichu, flowing east from the Sikkim–Bhutan border ridge. It joins Dichu near Dzongsa, where also Bindu Khola joins it from the east.}} rivers as the boundary of the Dalingkot area, making Sipsu a border district of Bhutan.<ref>
{{cite book |first=Amiya K. |last=Samanta |title=Gorkhaland Movement: A Study in Ethnic Separatism |publisher=APH Publishing |year=2000 |isbn=978-81-7648-166-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J4GqdfG0EU8C |page=43}}
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{{citation |last=Hunter |first=W. W. |title=A Statistical Account Of Bengal, Vol. X: Districts of Darjiling and Jalpaiguri, State of Kuch Behar |publisher=Trubner & Co |location=London |year=1876 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.281462/ |via=archive.org |page=19}}: "In August 1866, by a Government Resolution, the hilly tract situated east of the Tista, west of the Ne-chu and De-chu rivers, and south of Independent Sikkim, being part of the territory acquired as the result of the Bhutan campaign of 1864, was added to the jurisdiction of Darjiling, and now forms the tract known as '''Damsang''' or '''Dalingkot'''."
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==Notes==
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==References==
<references>
<ref name="Dzongkhag">
{{citation |title=Tashichholing Gewog |publisher=Samtse Dzongkhag Administration |url=http://www.samtse.gov.bt/gewogs/tashichhoelingsibsoo-gewog |access-date=2 August 2022}}</ref>
<ref name="delimitation">{{cite web |title=Chiwogs in Samtse |publisher=Election Commission, [[Government of Bhutan]] |year=2011 |url=http://www.election-bhutan.org.bt/2011/finaldelimitation/Samtse.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002185843/http://www.election-bhutan.org.bt/2011/finaldelimitation/Samtse.pdf |archive-date=2011-10-02 |url-status=dead |pages=21–22}}</ref>
<ref name="eleventh plan">{{citation |title=Eleventh Five-Year Plan, Samtse Dzongkhag |publisher=Gross National Happiness Commission, Royal Government of Bhutan |year=2013 |id={{ISBN|978-99936-55-01-5}} |at=Sec. 2 (Dzongkhag at a glance, 2012) |url=https://www.gnhc.gov.bt/en/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Samtse1.pdf}}</ref>
</references>

==Bibliography==
* {{citation |last=Phuntsho |first=Karma |title=The History of Bhutan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aUDAAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT405 |year=2013 |publisher=Random House India |ISBN=978-81-8400-411-3 |pages=405– |ref={{sfnref|Phuntsho, The History of Bhutan|2013}}}}
* {{citation |last=Rennie |first=Surgeon |title=Bhotan and the Dooar War |publisher=John Murray |year=1866 |url=https://archive.org/details/b29352150 |via=archive.org |ref={{sfnref|Rennie, Bhotan and the Dooar War|1866}}}}

==External links==
* [https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/12165769#map=12/27.0140/88.9292 Tashichoeling Gewog], OpenStreetMap, retrieved 2 August 2022.

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[[Category:Gewogs of Bhutan]]
[[Category:Samtse District]]

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