Darjeeling District and Sessions Judge Court

ABOUT DISTRICT COURT

The name of Darjeeling came from the Tibetan Words Dorje-ling i.e., Dorje means, Thunderbolt and ling means Land, that means Land of Thunderbolt. In 1835 was annexed by the East India Compnany , Prior to that , Darjeeling formed a part of Sikkim and for a brief period of Nepal.

Previously Darjeeling formed a part of dominions of the Raja of Sikkim, who has been engaged in an unsuccessful warfare against Gorkhas. From 1780 the Gorkhas made several attempts to capture the entire region of Darjeeling. By the beginning of 19th , Century , they has overrun Sikkim as far eastward as the Teesta River and has conquered and annexed the Terai. In the mean time, the British were engaged in preventing the Gorkhas from overrunning the whole of the northern frontier . The Anglo-Nepal was broke out in 1814,Which resulted in the defeat of the Gorkhas and subsequently to the Sugauli Treaty in 1815. According to treaty , Nepal had to cede all those territories which the Gorkhas and annexed from the Raja of Sikkim to the British East India Co. Later in 1817, through the Treaty of Titalia, the British East India Company reinstated the Raja of Sikkim[...]