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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.
Multi-party constitution is adopted and the first general elections in Nepal brings Nepali Congress to power with B.P. Koirala as the first democratically elected prime minister. [19] 1960: 15 Dec: King Mahendra leads a coup d'état dismissing the cabinet of B.P. Koirala and introduces the Panchayat, a partyless political system. [20] [21] 1962
17th-century establishments in Nepal (17 P) P. 17th-century Nepalese people (27 P) This page was last edited on 27 June 2021, at 11:56 (UTC). Text is available ...
During the early nineteenth century, however, the expansion of the East India Company's rule in India led to the Anglo-Nepalese War (1814–1816), which resulted in Nepal's defeat. Under the Treaty of Sugauli , the kingdom retained its internal independence, but in exchange for territorial concessions, marking the Mechi and Sharda rivers as the ...
In 1960, he began the party-less political system, Panchayat. [27] During a hunting event, he suffered a heart attack, and his son Birendra assumed the throne in 1975, two years after his father's death. [28] [29] In 1990, pro-democracy riots broke out in Nepal, resulting in the country becoming a constitutional monarchy. [30]
The murals on the walls of two 15th-century monasteries in the former kingdom of Mustang in the Nepal Himalaya provide illustrations of Newar works outside the Kathmandu Valley. [74] Stone sculpture, wood carving, repoussé art and metal statues of Buddhist and Hindu deities made by the lost-wax casting process [ 75 ] are specimens of Newar ...
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]
Beginning in the early twelfth century, leading notables in Nepal began to appear with names ending in the term malla, ("wrestler" in Sanskrit), [21] indicating a person of great strength and power. Arimalla (reigned 1200–16) was the first king to be so called, [ 22 ] and the practice of adopting such a name was followed regularly by rulers ...