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pany to the disputed districts hut »
Hastings thereupon threatened the forcTbl ^c "^' 1 re8tltUti0n '
they were not evacuated by a given date TbT P “V* ^ tt
expired without a reply from Nenal (V,.. .i- , P^nbed time havina
in the middle of April 1814 ’ 18pUt * d distric ‘ 9 *«e occup“d
War was now inevitahlA »
November 1814. An arduous campaign “ tlle Ist
most bravely and with much success iff/tbs jfvV^ Gul ' kll M fought
hills west of the Kali, and the Gurkhas P OS8e8sioi > »< the
but negotiations were twice broken off bv If dl8p0 . sed . to tre,lt for peace;
the demand for the cession of the Tarsi !" “> with
inevitable, when Lord Hastings offered « 86 i cam P ai ? n seemed
of the Tarai and to make some^Wn^lr:^' r timated ralM
commissioners to sign the Treaty of Segauli on the MiITn ^ Nepal
Kathmandu. The GurkhTs made“ “b ^ Be “ iah direCt 0I>
feated in several encounters aTd L n vl T bUt "' ere d *
days’ march of K 4 th“ Deemt furtwtT^ ‘ 0 thrM
inr» ♦!»«>+ 4 . 1 . r> v . ^ urther resistance vain, and fear^
b«Vt ’ r the J Brltlsh troo P 9 once entered the Valley of Nepal, it might
BrifohwT ^ h “ rriedl y eent “ ambassador “the
unraGfied “ 6Ue f ° r P® 80 ®* and on the 4tI > March 1816 the
»» t f it xT l° f j® preT,0U9 y ear was duly signed. The hill lands
east of the Mechi and part of the Tarai between the Mechi and Tista,
ceded under thas treaty, were made over to Sikkim, against which country 1
the Maharaja of Nepal bound himself to commit no aggression. On the
11th December 1816 the 4th article of the treaty of Segauli, by which the
British Government had undertaken to pay two lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees of rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. a year as
pensions to certain Nepalese Chiefs, was annulled (No.lV ,) in consi*
deration of the restoration to Nepal of the greater portion of the Tarai
lands between the Rapti and the Kusi. The Tarai lands westward to the
Kali were made over to Oudh.
Mr. Gardner, the first Resident appointed under the treatv of Segauli,
found Bhim Sen Thappa, the Minister, invested with complete control
over the country. Shortly after Mr. Gardners arrival at Kathmandd
Maharaja Girvan Jodh Bikram died, his successor, Rajendra Bikram Sah,
being then only two years old. The ministry of Bhim Sen was continued
during the minority, and from that time till 1832 he enjoyed complete
and uninterrupted poVer. During the whole of this period a martial
policy prevailed in the councils of Nepal.