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Date Event 1806: Bhimsen Thapa becomes the first Mukhtiyar (prime minister). [5] 1809: Nepalese troops lay siege to Kangra, farthest extent of Gurkha empire. 1814: Anglo-Nepalese War (1814-1816) ends resulting in Sugauli Treaty which establishes Nepal's current boundaries and sows the seeds for political instability. 1837
The revolution of 1951 (Nepali: सात सालको क्रान्ति, romanized: Sāta Sālako Krānti) in Nepal, also referred to as Sat Salko Kranti, was a political movement against the direct rule by the Rana dynasty of Nepal which had lasted for 104 years.
Date in A.D. Date in B.S. Event 1769 1826 Kathmandu is declared the capital of Nepal with Prithvi Narayan Shah as the ruler of the unified country. 1775 1831 Prithvi Narayan Shah dies; his son Pratap Singh Shah is crowned king. [1] 1777 1834 Pratap Singh Shah dies; Rana Bahadur Shah is crowned king. [1] 1799 1855
Famous Indologists Write to the Raj Guru of Nepal – no. 1), in Commemorative Volume for about 30 Years of the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project. Journal of the Nepal Research Centre, XII (2001), Kathmandu, ed. by A. Wezler in collaboration with H. Haffner, A. Michaels, B. Kölver, M. R. Pant and D. Jackson, pp. 115–149.
[11] [12] Nepal's first decade of democracy is considered turbulent due to frequent government changes, internal party battles and corruption. Politics continued to be dominated by the Brahmin and Chhetri castes with an underrepresentation of ethnic minorities and women. [13]
The Rana dynasty (Nepali: राणा वंश, romanized: Rāṇā vaṃśa, Sanskrit: [raːɳaː ʋɐ̃ɕɐ], Nepali: [raɳa bʌŋsʌ]) was a Chhetri [note 1] dynasty that [6] imposed authoritarianism in the Kingdom of Nepal from 1846 until 1951, reducing the Shah monarch to a figurehead and making the Prime Minister and other government positions held by the Ranas hereditary.
Political stability has mostly remained elusive in Nepal with frequent changes of government. Dahal was the 13th prime minister to assume power in the past 16 years.
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