The Impact of Christianity in the Development of Biomedicine and English Education in Bhutan
During the colonial period European missionaries had opportunities to established English education and biomedicine services in the neighboring states of Sikkim, Darjeeling and as far as Tibet. But in Bhutan, it was introduced a century later, mainly because of two reasons. Firstly the county was closed to the foreign influence particularly the missionaries. Secondly, since it was not economically benefited for British India. Moreover, due to financial restrictions in the country, and without help from British India development in the field of biomedicine and English education was very difficult. But the European missionaries took the challenge, gave much time and interest to help Bhutanese ruling elites. British India’s political officers begun to visit Bhutan from the year 1905 for the diplomatic reasons. Since 1910 Bhutan’s foreign affairs were formally bound with British India control but did not involved in the internal affairs and British India paid 100,000 subsidies for the annexed Duars.
