cover image: The Dynamics of the India-Nepal Relationship (Vol No 1 – 2020) – Lieutenant General Shokin Chauhan,

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The Dynamics of the India-Nepal Relationship (Vol No 1 – 2020) – Lieutenant General Shokin Chauhan,

14 Dec 2020

According to that India is the largest and the most populous the United Nations population estimates (2014), country in the region, besides being the largest the region accounts for 8.62 percent of the world’s democracy in the world. [...] The river Mechi which flows in between the of King Dhiraj Prithvi Narayan Shahdev (1769 – eastern boundary of Nepal and India formed the 1775), the Gorkha dynasty had taken over the areas eastern border and the river Mahakali in Western of modern Nepal7 and this served as a driving force Nepal became the western border of Nepal. [...] The Mahabharat Range also called the Lesser Himalaya On the western side, the Kangra fort, now part reaches up to 10,000 feet in height and constitutes of India’s Himachal Pradesh, was captured by the largest area of the country with most of the the Nepalese Army under the command of Amar Nepalese living on the slopes and valleys of this Singh Thapa who had succeeded in extending range. [...] The Chure or Siwalik range, a single file of Nepal to the Sutlej river (now in India) and beyond sandstone hills running from the east to the west, in the West, and Sikkim and Bhutan to the East. [...] The Terai expanded up to the banks of the River Sutlej in lies to the south of Chure and serves as the rice Punjab and Kumaun to the west and the Teesta bowl of Nepal today13.
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