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It is possible that the Dravidian people whose history predates the onset of the Bronze Age in the Indian subcontinent (around 3300 BC) inhabited the area before the arrival of other ethnic groups like the Tibeto-Burmans and long before Indo-Aryans from across the border.The Tibeto-Burman peoples were likely the earliest significant settlers in ...
A base of a Pillar of Ashoka has been discovered at Gotihawa, a few miles from Nigali Sagar, and it has been suggested that it is the original base of the Nigalar Sagar pillar fragments. [ 10 ] Ashoka also visited the Kathmandu valley and built monuments commemorating Gautama Buddha's visit there.
The oldest discovered archaeological evidence of human settlements in Nepal dates to around the same time. [ 33 ] After 6500 BC, evidence for the domestication of food crops and animals, construction of permanent structures, and storage of agricultural surplus appeared in Mehrgarh and other sites in what is now Balochistan . [ 34 ]
Rivalry between Nepal and the East India Company—over the princely states bordering Nepal and India—eventually led to the Anglo-Nepalese War (1814–16). The Treaty of Sugauli was signed in 1816, ceding large parts of the Nepali territories of the Terai and Sikkim , which accounted to nearly one-third of the country, to the East India ...
The unification of Nepal (Nepali: नेपालको एकीकरण) was the process of building the modern Nepalese state, from fractured petty kingdoms including the Baise Rajya (22 Kingdoms) and the Chaubisi Rajya (24 Kingdoms), which began in 1743 AD (1799 BS). [1]
The Lumbini pillar inscription, also called the Paderia inscription, is an inscription in the ancient Brahmi script, discovered in December 1896 on a pillar of Ashoka in Lumbini, Nepal by former Chief of the Nepalese Army General Khadga Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana under the authority of Nepalese government and assisted by Alois Anton Führer. [1]
Nepal’s eminent historian late Baburam Acharya is credited with the Nepali name Sagarmatha (सगरमाथा) [3] for Mount Everest that straddles Nepal-China border. Previously, Nepal had no official name of its own for the world’s tallest peak in Nepali, although names among many Nepalese people - Sherpa, Limbu, etc. existed long ago ...
He said “When we see, we think that there is an incarnation of Pancha Pandava (Five brothers including Prithvi Narayan Shah), Nepal can not be captured without any Kuruchhetra (place of decisive battle between Kauravas and Pandavas in Mahabharat), Lamjung is a ‘Garud’, Gorkha is a ‘Snake’ and Nepal is a ‘Frog’.