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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

THE HISTORY OF NEPAL

By the 14th century, Jayasthimall, a Newar King tried to unite the several principalities of the region which short-lived and in 1482 the territory split into three kingdoms: Kathmandu, Patan and Bhadgaon.
Prithvinarayan Shah (a prince of Sisodia clan of Chittor, Rajasthan) unified Nepal. Hence, he is regarded as the father of the modern Nepal. First he established a small principality of Gorkha (means-protector of cow); thereby conquering about more than 22 other princely states of the region, created modern Nepal. On 21st December 1768 he became the ruler of unified Nepal defeating Sen (Maithili) ruler of the valley and declared Nepal as the land of associate garden of 4 Verna (i.e. Brahman, Chatrya, Baisya and Sudra) and 36 castes. P.N.Shah was popularly known as Gorkha ruler, meaning, the cow protector and follower of Guru-Gorakhnath. Unfortunately, he banned the enrollment of Maithili and other Terai (Plain) people in his Nepal Army, as in 1774 Jay Prakash Mall attacked Kathmandu with 12000 strong Maithili troops (Tirhoot Army).

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