Historical Facts of Bhutan

  The First Anglo-Bhutanese War - 1773 - 1774 [1] The East India Company in India The East India Company was formed among the group of English merchants under the Royal Charter in 1600.   The Portuguese were the first European country to carry out trade with India. The English were encouraged to do the same because they have seen the Portuguese making huge profit. The other European countries followed the England. The Dutch set up its company in 1602, Danish in 1616 and the French in 1664 respectively.   But we will focus for the English East India Company. The East India Company set up its trading post at Madras in 1639 and at Bombay in 1668.The East India Company later shifted its trading centre at Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1690.   Prior to this period, East India Company focused on trade only. Their trade items include pepper, spices, cotton textiles, saltpetre etc. Nearly 60 per cent of the British imports from Asia consisted of goods from Bengal.   The Company paid a sum of

  Submission of Annual Taxes to Punakha Dzong from Trashigang Dzong. Punakha was the capital of Bhutan in the past. Every region had to pay certain items as tax to Punakha Dzond annually. This annual tax should be paid to Punakha Dzong in the 11 th month of the Bhutanese calendar. I came across the annual taxes paid to Punakha Dzong from Trashigang Dzong. The following are the items paid to Punakha Dzong as annual tax: 1)       དབང་མཆོད     ( Offering for Blessing) དོས་ཡིག་ཆེན་ཞུས་ཞུ་རྟེན་དགུ་མཚན ། -           བྷ་རས་མ་ཀྲང་གསུམ་མ། -           ཐག་ཀར་མ་ཀྲང་མ་བྲང་གསུམ། -           འབུ་རས་མ་ཀྲང་མ། -           ལྟང་དཀྱུས་མ་ཀྲང་མ། -           ཁ་ཚོས་མ་ཀྲང་བཞི་མ། -           ཁྲ་ཁྲ་མ་ཀྲང་གཉིས་མ་གཉིས། -           རྒྱ་དར་མ་ཀྲང་གཉིས་མ། -           བར་མཛོད་མ་ཀྲང་བཞི་མ། If Dzongpon did not come to Punakha, Dzongpon should pay the following items and vice versa. -           མ་ཀྲང་ཁལ་བཅུ་ཐམ། -           ཞུ་ཆེན་གསུམ་མཚན།   2)       ལྟོ་འཛིན་གྱི་ཕྱག་མཇལ། (Offerings from Tozen) -         བྷ་རས་མ་ཀྲང་གསུམ