Talk:Sugauli Treaty

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HISTORICAL FACT

War between the Gorkha Impire and British Impire occcur and peoples from uttarakhand and becaufar western region of Nepal fight against Nepali with british army. It is a histrocical truth. Nepal had lost all occupided territory becasue of the people insurgency against Nepali rural rather than the british. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darchoola (talk • contribs) 08:28, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

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Contradiction?
The article says:

Nepal also lost the right to deploy any American or European employee in its service (earlier several French commanders had been deployed to train the Nepali army).

But then later says:

The British representative in Kathmandu was the first Westerner allowed to live in the kingdom.

Surely the French commanders brought in to train the army constituted Westerners living in the Kingdom? --Jfruh (talk) 17:59, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

The previous author has failed to recognise that hiring military perosnnel on a contract and allowing an official resident in full diplomatic capacity are different. Even long before these. several cristian missionaries had been allowed in kathmandu by malla kings only to be exiled by king prithvi narayan shah.

Area covered by the Sugauli Treaty
According to the article, a fairly large swathe of Northern India was once part of Nepal and was seized by the British as a result of the Sugauli Treaty. However, the only reference I can find (the article itself is entirely unreferenced) states the following: ''When, after a valiant struggle by the Nepalese, the British finally established their superiority, they confiscated the entire terai under the treaty of Sugauli in 1819. However, a year later a part of the terai from the Mechi to the western Rapti was returned to Nepal and in 1858, after the Nepalese aided the British during the first war of Indian independence, western terai was also restored.'' (Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 5, No. 19 (May 9, 1970), pp. 764-765 Published by: Economic and Political Weekly Stable URL: ). According to this reference, the entire terai region was returned to Nepal, first in 1820, and then after the Nepalese aided the British during the 1857 rebellion. --RegentsPark (sticks and stones) 18:46, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

The previous author failed to see the entire stretches of land confiscated by the british lying to the west of mahakali river (sharada river in india), and also sikkim between mechi and teesta rivers. The author-mentioned terai was returned to nepal not as compliment but in exchange to scrap the provosion of annual Rs 200000 to be paid to nepali landlords as the british parliament protested cash payments.