Nepal

There was an Indian Government Residency in the capital of Nepal, Katmandu.

The titular head of Nepalese government was His Highness the Maharajadhiraj, but the real ruler of the country was the Prime Minister, a hereditary officer.

Also see

• Gurkha War 1814-1816
• Gurkha Rifles
• Nepal Government Railway

External links

• Nepal Wikipedia.

Historical books online

• "Nepal" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 19, page 25.
• Afghanistan and Nepal. Part of Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series published 1908, 1909. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Archive.org mirror version. Also available to download as a pdf from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
• On India's Frontier : or, Nepal: the Gurkhas' Mysterious Land by Henry Ballantine 1895 Archive.org
• "Eighteen Months in Nepal" by Lieut.-Colonel H L Showers page 595 Blackwood’s Magazine No 199, January-June 1916. Archive.org. The author was in charge of the Indian Government Nepal Residency from Spring 1912 to October 1913.
• The Land of the Gurkhas or the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal by Major W Brook Northey, late 1st KGO Gurkha Rifles. Reprint edition, first published 1937. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. The author held the post of Recruiting Officer for five years, during which he was permitted to visit the interiors of Nepal that were out of bounds to other Europeans. Also available to download as a pdf from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
• Also see books on the Fibiwiki page Gurkha Rifles.