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The Evolution of Empire

Empires are like living organisms, they grow, mature, and die

Looking back at the 1923 Nepal-Britain Treaty

Nearly 100 years ago, the Rana ruler of Nepal signed a treaty with British India that redressed some of the humiliation that...

Letting go of Sikkim's ghost

Nearly half-a-century after the overthrow of Palden Thondup Namgyal, the 12th and last Chogyal of Sikkim and India’s formal annexation of the...

Smallpox, politics and power in Kathmandu

The third in a series about how epidemics in the past determined the course of Nepal’s history

Tom Robertson
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