History of Nepal
Nepal enjoys the glory of always being a sovereign and independent country. It has, indeed, never been under foreign domination.
From the 12th to the 18th century, the Malla Dynasty built an Empire made of many small states.
From 1750 to 1769, Prithvi Narayan Shah unified all these independent kingdoms as Nepal and was the first king of this new Himalayan Kingdom.
In 1845, the Rana family came on power as Prime Ministers of Nepal, the king lost all his powers.
One century later, the current King Tribhuvan moved to India and organizes the People Revolution. In 1951, the rule of the Ranas stopped and a Panchayat system started. A new Constitution was then written giving the king all powers.
But the arbitrary power, the corruption and increasing prices made the people more and more angry with the political system. In 1990, the King Birendra accepted that a new Constitution was written to secure the sovereignty of the people and a democratic political system with Constitutional Monarchy was established.
Though, in 1996, tired by the corruption, the Maoist Party called for the People's War.
In 2001, the King Birendra and a part of the Royal Family were killed. Birendra's brother, Gyanendra, was crowned, he then dissolved the Assembly and restored the Absolute Monarchy. The war became more violent.
In 2006 Gyanendra gave up and re-established the Parliament. This was the end of the People's War with more than 13 000 dead people.
In 2008, the Assembly votes the abolition of monarchy and announces the birth of the new Democratic Federal Republic of Nepal. Ram Baran Yadav is elected as President of the Republic.
Since that day, governments are succeeding from one to another to write a new constitution for the country.
