Jul 26, 2026 8 min read
From Monarchy to Republic: How Modern Nepal Was Made
In 2008 Nepal ended 240 years of Shah rule and became a federal republic. The road there ran through the Panchayat years, two…
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In 2008 Nepal ended 240 years of Shah rule and became a federal republic. The road there ran through the Panchayat years, two…
Read more →Nepal has four UNESCO World Heritage Sites, not ten. One of them, the Kathmandu Valley, bundles seven separate monument zones…
Read more →Nepal has been a federal republic since 2008, a kingdom for the 240 years before that, and a valley state ruled from…
Read more →Ask who ruled Nepal first and most Nepalis will say the Kirats. Their kings sit at the edge of legend, but their descendants…
Read more →The Licchavis left something no earlier Nepali dynasty did: dated stone inscriptions. From the 464 CE pillar at Changu Narayan to…
Read more →Three cities within an hour of each other, each with a palace square crowded with temples. That is not urban planning. It is 300…
Read more →In 1743 a young king inherited a small hill state called Gorkha. Twenty-five years later he controlled the Kathmandu Valley and…
Read more →Between 1814 and 1816 the expanding Gorkhali state fought the British East India Company along the length of the Himalayan…
Read more →For 104 years Nepal was governed by hereditary prime ministers while its kings sat behind palace walls with no power. The Rana…
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