“Monarchy is over in Nepal”. The same title is being used in fashionable ways by many media in this world—of course, only those who hold significant stake in Nepal. The biggest stake holder and the director of Nepal’s devastation is Nepal’s closest and sadistic neighbor, India. Even though the intellectuals are familiar with this direction, I would like to show why the world remains anonymous of this India’s sponsorship of terrorism in Nepal. Quite surprisingly, the actors have created a huge mass of junior actors in the hope to make them a lead actor one day. In the mean time, the director is enjoying the show. Let’s trace back when the director thought to direct this inhuman movie that might not leave the director an option of bankruptcy if the truth is exposed.

As known to the world, Nepal was a Kingdom and the most peaceful country in this chaotic earth. While many may disagree, however, there was no extreme poverty in Nepal in mid 20^th century. The Indo-Nepal friction started when the then Prime Minister of Nepal—Jung Bahaur Rana—supported the British India to suppress the Sepoy Rebellion. In 1857, India could have born, but since the Rana prime ministers of Nepal were strong allies of British, they supported British in their mission to crush any independence revolution. In fact, Nepal had already become an enemy of Indians then. Moreover, the strength of Gurkha army was the biggest obstacle for the Indians to overcome. Because of Rana’s support for British India, the later known India could not gain independence until 1947. Many of us forget to note, immediately after India was born, the Rana Empire was thrown out in Nepal in the year 1950. The then Prime Minster of Nepal—Mohan Shumsher Rana—was deposed who would later go to India on a self imposed exile. His titular successor—Pashupati Shumsher Rana—still resides in Nepal. His role would come into play post the Royal Massacre of 2001. Until 1950, Ranas were the prime rulers of Nepal and the monarchy was only symbolic. When India was born in 1947, the then prime minister of India was Jawarharlal Nehru—the same leader who kicked out Indira Nehru for marrying a Muslim, who would later become India Gandhi and the biggest enemy of Hindus and Sikhs.

There was another family who was fighting for the Indian state with the Indians—the Koiralas. Koiralas were Indians who were born in the Northern Province of British India –modern day of Bihar or Uttar Pradesh in India. Koiralas were three brothers who were born and raised in India. The family claims to be originally from Nepal, however, their roots and bushes have been found only in India. Even today, much of Koirala family resides in India—respecting the motherland. The Koirala brothers joined struggled to give birth to India. During the later years when India was about to born, Koiralas were suggested to form Nepal Congress Party within India. Finally India was born in 1947 with another new nation—Pakistan. Appropriate justice does not seem to be carried out looking at the area of India and Pakistan and the number of people residing. The most important factor was religion. Most of the princely states were to join the Union of India. One of the biggest Kingdoms was the Kingdom of Jammu and Kashmir whose King Raja Hari Singh was a Hindu and the population majority was of Muslim. Raja Hari Singh decided not to surrender his Kingdom to either of the countries. However, illegally, India annexed the Kingdom into its Union. It is interesting to see how Indian text books claim this beautiful Kingdom a part of India. In the last days of 1948, a ceasefire was agreed under UN auspices demanding plebiscite. Nehru never proceeded with the UN resolution and hence, the ascertainity of the instrument of accession is questionable. The Kingdom—as falsely claimed by India and Pakistan—is still considered as the international disputed territory. Then India annexed the Kingdom of Gwalior, and the Kingdom of Hyderabad. By all means, they were illegal annexation. India’s vulture eyes were gazing the Kingdom of Sikkim and the Kingdom of Nepal. The Indian Congress had helped create Nepali congress for a good reason. The Indians had foreseen their fortune in Nepal. The Koiralas were assured by the Indians that they would help Nepal merge into India if the Indians help throw the Rana regime in Nepal. India was lured with this Childish Koirala Deal. Even a newborn child would see the benefit in helping the needy brothers. Finally, in 1950, King Tribhuwan fled to India to seek refuge from the Ranas. The only Royal member left was the 3 year old, the then prince Gyanendra. The Ranas—who were expert in analyzing the future—were familiar with the Indian game. The Indians had thought to end the monarchy in 1950, but the Ranas, moving a mile ahead, crowned the 3 year old as the King of the Kingdom of Nepal. The Koiralas’ and the Indians’ dream shattered. The Ranas knew that India wanted to weaken Nepal by overthrowing monarchy. Hence, they took the wisest step to save Nepal, and we witnessed the result. Even though the Ranas were able to save Nepal’s monarchy, unfortunately, their Empire was brought down. Since Ranas were the true Nationalists, their downfall encouraged India to envision a possibility to annexing Nepal into India.

Not that easy as the Indians had presumed. The King in Nepal was considered the reincarnation of Hindu God, and replacing the intuition of Monarchy was their far dream. They figured where the problem laid—Monarchy. Nevertheless, India did not stay quiet, and offered Sikkim and Nepal to sign the instrument of accession and join the Union of India Nepal’s the then King Mahendra got infuriated with the proposal, whereas the “Koirala equivalent” prime Minister of Sikkim offered Sikkim in the hands of India, only to be slaughtered. The three Koirala brothers became the prime ministers of Nepal on the recommendation and pressure from India. This paved an easy path for the Indians to observe Nepal more closely. Nepal’s monarchy was well aware of this Indian strategy, however, the then King Birendra had declared Nepal as the Zone of Peace in the 90s. This was endorsed by more than 110 countries of the world, except India. Intellectuals could smell the stink that was coming from the southern block. King Birendra’s popularity almost made India’s dream a nightmare. Moreover, the future King Dipendra was one of the most popular figures of Nepalese monarchy in the history.

India’s dream was almost impossible. As the Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi created LTTE in Sri Lanka, they thought to help launch a Maoist revolution in Nepal to break Nepal. The Maoists’ top demand was the abolition of Monarchy. Since the year 1996, India started funding Nepal Maoists to fight against state. As the Maoist party was formed in 1996, their leaders were backed up by the Indian government. Most of the Maoists leader lived in Darjeeling, Lucknow, and Delhi in India and masterminded their plan. These plans were executed by guerrilla who lived in Nepal and were dying to fight war. In other words, India created Communism in Nepal. They also were supported by the Indian Communist leaders and other Naxalite group who are fighting against the Indian government for communism. Surprisingly India never helped Nepal government in arresting those leaders and extraditing them in Nepal. When Nepali Maoists met Nepali Communist leaders in Lucknow, India in 2003, India government did not take initiative to arrest them, even though they were recognized as terrorists by the United States. Hence it is evident that India never wanted peace in Nepal. At the same time, international media was busy defaming the King Gyanendra.

The interesting chemistry was all political parties held discussions in India with the Maoists in the Indian’s presence. The irony was Maoists were able to kill Inspector General of Police of the Royal Nepalese Government, but were not able to kill any leaders. This does not digest well. These Maoists and leaders were in agreement not to kill each others leaders. Although India was successful in proving why they did not endorse “Zone of Peace”, they were unable to offer prayers to King. Then India played the worst game with the help of its own citizens—Koiralas, and Maoists to end the Nepalese monarchy—which the world today knows as the Nepal’s Royal Massacre.

After the Royal Massacre, many speculations were in the air. However, immediately after the incident, media, which are funded by India, started to air against Gyanendra, who was the only heir left to the throne. India’s, Koirala’s and Maoists’ strategy was to defame monarchy and most importantly, the monarch who was unknown to the world. India knew that King Birendra was most popular and if the blame could be dumped on Gyanendra, it would be the easiest way to uproot monarchy. And so was the story we witnessed. India had a sound plan to kill the Royal Family so that no one else would remain alive to keep the monarchy breathing. However, the massacre happened when King Gyanendra was out of town and allegedly was on the way back to the massacre site for the dinner. Gyanendra was crowned again as the King of Nepal, and India, once again, could not prove to be a successful director. India funded media were airing speculations about King Gyanendra. The love and respect for the King was then seen by the shaved head of all the Nepalese—who respected Nepalese Monarch as their father. Noticeably, the present Prime Minster, Girija Prasad, the same Indian Citizen, was the Prime Minister of Nepal during the Royal Massacre. He helped India facilitate the killings. Later, he also facilitated King Gyanendra, to be removed from the palace. In other words, the Koiralas were well aware of the killings, but instead of stopping India to kill the royals, the old traitor helped them successfully execute the plan.

The King wanted the then prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba to hold the elections but even after he was granted to extend the date of election twice, he was never motivated to hold the election. The underlying political reason was that he continuously wanted to be in his office by postponing the election. As a Chief of State, King Gyanendra could not wait to see his country devastated. This made him to sack the cabinet and impose his direct rule. Subsequently, in October 2002, King Gyanendra dismissed the prime minister and his cabinet. While stopping short of reestablishing parliament, the king in June 2004 reinstated the most recently elected prime minister who formed a four-party coalition government. The King, citing dissatisfaction with the government, dissolved the government in 2005, declared a state of emergency, imprisoned party leaders, and assumed power. The king's government subsequently released party leaders and officially ended the state of emergency in May 2005, but the monarch retained absolute power until April 2006.

When King Gyanendra ascended throne in 2002, Nepal has been going through civil war from the past ten years. Politicians of Nepal, as an easy excuse to take benefit from inexperienced King imposed blame on him. When King sacked the parliament for its inability to hold elections, the law was enforced, the administration was healthy and the environment was getting conducive. He acted tough on the people to enforce laws. The 12 years of democracy by then had made Nepalese lazy and incompetent, but the king wanted to abolish the ongoing crisis. While most of Nepalese were pleased to see this progress, the corrupted people were unemployed. The leaders of Nepal are barely educated to find a job, if they do not engage themselves into politics. The government employees who never showed up on time were forced to be in the office and corruption was strictly made illegal. How can idle Nepalese like that? Obviously it will make them revolt. These led the politicians ally together and form a coalition to fight against the King. Nepal and Indian media supported well these coalition leaders. Countable 10-15 people gathered for to restore democracy and started protest. It was not until April 2006, when Maoists joined the movement to fight against king. Truckload Maoists entered the capital city to revolt. As a way to spread violence, Maoists attacked on Maoists in the revolution process and charged King for their deaths. After 30 people were killed, the King gave up all the powers and reinstated the government. Hence, the King who wanted to make the country progress was iconized as a dictator. Following that, if anyone in Nepal supports nationalism, then they are labeled as royalists or a dictator.

Now that the monarchy is gone, common Nepalese who are die hard fans of King, are looking for their God. However, Hinduism and Buddism have not taught violence to Nepalese. Maybe that’s why common Nepalese are not on the streets yet. I remain unanswered, is Hinduism’s patience tested? Is Gurkhas’ blood tested? Are the Nepalese tested? Nepal has so far witnessed the Maoists crowd, not the Nepali crowd, there will be a day when Gurkhalis will be on the streets to show the bravery of Amar Singh Thapa, Bir Balbhadra Kunwar, Bhimsen Thapa, or another Jung Bahadur Rana…and who knows, another Prithvi Narayan Shah to Unify the breaking Nepal.

http://newsblaze.com/story/20080619175135tsop.nb/topstory.html

looks marginally true. however it appears manipulated to sound realistic

allright now.....king was incompetant in leading the country to a better direction.but how about the ppl in the government for the last decade who's done nuthing yet. and yet they seem to be deciding the fate of the country to this date....and goin on n on n on.......thats a shame!

Everyone knows we are heading for next SIKKIM,,,,,,,,,

WHO WILL SAVE OUR NATION THEN...

why don't these bastards (POLITICIANS) think like the way I think and the general nepali............

COME on chor daka neta haru.......... wake up.......and save the nation............

Well written, But I am not agree with you on the following points

You said, Ranas were true nationalist, I say, of course there were ture nationalists, cuase they thought Nepal was their 'Bapauti', They were running Nepal like family own business, so nobody wanna lose their business.

You said, Koirala brothers tried to make Nepal a part of Inida as Sikkim.I don't think any nepali would do that, I think they knew without India's help you can't bring democracy in Nepal, And they were right. Even Prachanda kissing Sonia's feet nowadys.

You said India gave birth Maoists and didn't arrest Maoist in India. I say, they already have Maoist problem and Indians are still being killed by their Maoists, why the heck somebody wanna another terrorists in neighbor country. when they can't arrest their terrorists how can they arrest Nepalese terrorists in India who is doing back and forth India and Nepal? Didn't you just hear that BJP doesn't want Maoists in Nepal? if your version of India means Indira Congress only, then I don't know may be u r true.

You said India killed Birendra's family, I say, did Manmohan singh put mask on and killed all? Even Shruti's husband and other witnesses said that Dipendra killed  his family. Won't you come out and say everything if somebody kills you wife (god forbids). 

Dear friends, Shah kings were digging their own grave. They didn't do anything to get respected by all Nepalese.

We should stop talking bad about India (even though I don't like India's policy towards neighbor countries) we don't have any choice. We can't put our shit together at home, we should blame ourselve first. Big fish eats small fish, it's ture, don't you see an example here, the way Canada and Mexico are being treated by USA.

I think we need a strong leader like Pervez Muserruf. who was a honest dictetor, he did bargain with super power and got so much debt written off.

Jai Nepal.

 

 We are used by Indian GOVT as per their Interest!!!

Most of us,almost 80%(rough guestimate) of Nepalese hate India and their political influences over Nepal.But if you analyze move of Indian leaders to keep their influence intact,they have always used Nepalese people and we have done everything in their interest knowingly/unknowingly..Here are few points I would like to bring to our Sajhaities what we have done to sync with Indian interest..

 

1) In 1990,then prime-minister Marich Man Singh had some issues with Indian GOVT,India sealed their boarder.India wanted to throw that govt to continue their influence in Nepal,Nepalese people went for democratic movement almost same time(I am not against democratic movement,I was also actively involved in the movement) and govt fell down and India got ppl to lead who had no hesitant to follow them.

2) Ex King Gyanendra(Dull politician of the century) dared to invite china in SAARC which Indian Counter Part did not like  and now he was thrown out of power.For this move,they used Nepali People again.

3) Before CA election,Girija refused to accept some proposals of Indian Govt about independent Madhesh and Now He is next to face consequences and again Nepalese people will be used.

I give thumbs up to bishal. That is the truth I believe in.

Who is the writer of this article? Is he getting money from King or India refused to give him some?

Long story short:
    Movie: They want Nepal
    Hero: The Shah
    Side Hero: The Ranas
    Villains: Indians, Maoists and Koiralas
    Genre: World Politics/ Thriller/ War/ Love-Romance/ Sad Ending
    Review: India played many games to force Nepal be a part of it. To make it possible they should end Nepalese monarchy. They recruited Koirala's, accepted the refuge of King Trivuvan, funded Terrorism like in Srilanka and what not.. but nothing worked (because The Ranas and The Shahs were too clever). Finally they masterminded Royal Massacre.
    Story Writer: Unknown (could be a Rana or Mandale or ex-king Gaynendra himself)

bisal123!
there is maximum truth in your assessment based on my opinion. Way to go!

ganapati!
Nice here and on a few others posts! (I did not mean to be harsh on you personally if I might have. No hard feelings if that's the case.)
Metaphors sum up points easily and shortly, don't they?


No matter what Nepal's past has been, we need to provide solidarity toward changing things for better in the future.

this is for the ppl who think why the heck would someone keep the terrorists. they keep terrorists for their interest....they give birth to them...they aid them with what they can, train them, so that they would consequently fight for their purpose. its like the CIA training bin laden to fight against the russians, also aiding saddam during the iran-iraq war.did u all know??? but all had backfired ultimately. am not trying to prove that india was definitely behind this all, but that is the pattern. this has backfired india now.maoists in india is now tracing the path of the nepalese maoists. they are doin the same like the maoists did  in nepal...attacking the police booths...taking control by force... causing a chaos and making their government to now think "WHAT THE HELL HAVE WE DONE!".

I agree with Bisal and the group too.

The write tries to say that the King and the Ranas were the country lovers? Give me a break, they sold our land to the same Indians, otherwise we would have access to even sea and India could never have any power over us but no. They were the ones who banned education and freedom to the general people.

Whatever it is, today Nepalese people can travel, open a business and do things openly, but in those times i believe Ranas even would rape one's daughter and we had to keep quiet and they are the nation builders?

When will we come to our senses and build our nations on our without blaming anyone. Together we can do it.

I think the writer is some panche who got all the priviledge in Rana's and king's regime and is really jobless.

However it is true that India has influence over Nepal, becasue right now they can... it should be our plan to stop them and ask them not to invade in our lives.. somehow ..even i hope we will have some leaders who will not fall in their hands.

 

wahiyat lekhai

Yes! Virignia, There is a Sanata Clause. But it is not in a Red Suit in front the Wal-Mart as you potrayed.

Interesting Analysis,

I think your view is biased towards Ranas and Shahas. I am not Koirala fan as well.
Truth is ONE: Ranas loved their asses to be licked. They are the ones who started "chakiri baaj and afno maanche in Nepal. You lick their ass they give you job and in return you have toto show up in their so called palace(virtual kingdom)  once a day so that Rana Babu is secured that you are not revolting or you are not away from their grasp.
I really wanted to read the book(PhD dissertation) written by Dor Bahadur Bista, we discussed about that book in our Sociology class.

Nepal needs Kingdom as an institution or monarchy as a symbol to unify our brothers and sisters from different ethnicity. But did not happen, pretty sad. But, the good thing is, "no monarchy means no Shah or Rana, Rani" and their so called virtual kingdom. This is a great breakthrough in abolishing the caste system in Nepal. That is the only positive impact I could see in future. If, Ranas and Shahas  had a sense to change as did Britishers in India and White Americans in  US would have been better , a strong SUSTAINABLE NEPALI KINGDOM.

Jai Nepal

RiceOwls07, did you write the article or just did copy and paste from somewhere? just curious, plz don't get offended.

hahaha....psychohead...what a story!!

better put some troops on the south border after all that shit thier playing with us

How about the fact that Maoist is a big threat to India today as well. I think Maoism is more popular where there is poverty and if you will analyze carefully it is growing rampantly in remote regions of India. I do not believe that India is involved actively, it has to do more with economy. Furthermore, communist party of India seems to be more reluctant in making any decision as regards Nepal's internal affair (Yechury's recent interview). And why Maoist are so flexible these days in power sharing despite their majority. They are willing to do anything (even offer presidential post to Shahana Pradhan) but not to Girija Babu. If it was all Produced and Directed then the end of the movie should conclude with Koirala as the first president of Nepal. I guess its still early to talk about it. Girija might become the first president.

The fact is that there are more key players now. China is also observing Nepal very carefully. I think we might be a troubled State for the coming years due to Tibet. Then there would be another strong key player and that would be America. We have to be now more alert on Tibet issue and answer  would come  after Olympics. We need to find the intentions of these elements on Tibet issue. Are they really interested to free Tibet to destabilize China or they are just trying to sabotage the Olympic games. Would be great if they are just trying to sabotage the Olympic game.

If Tibet issue will dissolve after Olympic games then guys just wait for the good days to come. That is the end of the Indian monopoly and the beginning of a new day. China and India will compete for the Nepali market. Or we can just say no to India. And if we will have good leaders  I bet  you  my  friends  Nepal  will  rise by just being in the transit of China and India. No more aalu ko kheti think of Tourism prospering by making Nepal a destination between these two giants or just being in the middle of their business.

I admire the skills of writer. Well written!!

Ya seriously! this is a totally absurd interpretation of history. The monarchy as heros ? Pretty much everybody who has excersized power in Nepal are villans...Koiralas (Girija is the no. 1 bad ass), Gayenendra and his family, the Ranas, the Maoists, and of course the Indians. If anybody tries to make any of these look good, their motivation has to be questioned.