Maharajas, Emperors, Viceroys, Borders by Sam CowanThe book covers the entire period of Nepals history, from the Gorkha unification of the country in the late eighteenth century to the end of the Shah monarchy in 2008, with the creation of a Federal Democratic Republic. Each chapter takes a particular historical episode and, with the aid of previously unexploited archives, digs deep beneath the surface to reveal the hidden underlying dynamics, leaving us to revise our vision of events that we wrongly