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Topical Nepali Miscellanea
historical events, political figures, names, places
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Geography
Undergraduate 4
02/07/2009

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Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepali Congress President
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 Dr. Ram Baran Yadav, President
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Prachanda, Prime Minister
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Nepalese Constituent Assembly
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A body of 601 members formed as a result of an election that was held on April 10, 2008.[1]  Tasked with writing a new constitution,[2] and it will act as the interim legislature for a term of two years.
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Nepali Congress

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a reform-oriented centrist party, has been in continuous operation since it was founded under a slightly different name in 1947. Elected to office in 1959 in a landslide victory, the party government sought to liberalize society through a democratic process. The palace coup of 1960 led to the imprisonment of its leader, Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, and other party stalwarts; many other members sought sanctuary in exile in India.
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years of parliamentary monarchy

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1990–1996

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no government in Nepal has survived for more than...
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...two years since 1991, either through internal collapse or parliamentary dissolution by the monarch.
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Maoist insurgency

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1996

11,000 police, civilians, and insurgents have been killed in the conflict since 1996

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Nepalese royal massacre

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June 1, 2001
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Beginning of Democratic Reform

 

Popular dissatisfaction against the family rule of the ... had started emerging from among the few ... people, who had studied in various ... schools and colleges, and also from ... the ..., many of whom were marginalised within the ... ... hierarchy.

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Ranas...educated... Indian... within ... Ranas ... Ruling Rana
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Year : King Mahendra first issued a new constitution, and the first democratic elections for a national assembly were held.
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1959

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Mahendra dismissed the elected Koirala government, declared that a "partyless" panchayat system would govern Nepal and promulgated another new constitution.
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December 16, 1962
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year: the radical left steps up their political agitation, as a result of implementation of changes in policy of the new Congress government
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1992

 

due to spiraling prices

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Years: Nepalese Civil War
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1996-2008
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Year: NPC (Maoist) begins insurrection in rural areas aimed at abolishing monarchy and establishing a people's republic, sparking a conflict that would drag on for over a decade.
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1995
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Year : The government and Maoists sign a peace accord, declaring a formal end to a 10-year rebel insurgency. The rebels are to join a transitional government and their weapons will be placed under UN supervision.
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2006 November
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Date: Nepal becomes a republic.
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2008, May 28
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Khas Kura
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the original name of the language labelled "Nepali," after the unification of the kingdom
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Nepal was split in ... kingdoms from the ... century, when it was ... under a ....
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three ... 15th to 18th ...unified ... monarchy
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Birthplace of Buddha
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Lumbini
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