BRIEF HISTORY OF BRITAIN’S RELATIONSHIP WITH NEPAL
Interview with Ambassador Hall
The history of relations between the United Kingdom and Nepal span two centuries, dating back to Great Britain’s colonial rule in India. A brief war between the army of the British East India Company and the Kingdom of Nepal took place from 1814 to 1815 when, in the south, Gorkha forces encroached upon British territory. Nepal, which had continuously expanded its boundaries since King Prithvi Narayan Shah’s consolidation of Nepalese territory in the late 1700s, now overplayed its hand. The British troops ultimately prevailed and a peace agreement resulted in Nepal losing nearly a third of its previously claimed territory. The Anglo-Nepal War officially ended with the ratification of the Treaty of Sugauli (1816). Thereafter, a British Representative was stationed in Kathmandu in a large compound provided by the Nepalese government.
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