The 1814 Anglo-Nepal War: Gurkhas vs the East India Company

Before the Sugauli Treaty redrew the map, Nepal's Gorkhali army faced the British East India Company in a two-year war that became legend. This episode follows the campaign from the 1814 border skirmishes at Butwal to the sieges of Kalunga and Nalapani, where Amar Singh Thapa's outnumbered Gurkhas held a mud fort against a British army. We talk about the tough terrain, the Company's miscalculations, and how the war gave the world the word 'Gurkha' — and the regiment that still bears it. We also get into the odd peace: the Treaty of Sugauli, signed in 1816, which took a third of Nepal's land but left it independent, a buffer between British India and Qing China. It's a story of bravery, blunder, and the strange compromises of empire.

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