How British Actually COLONIZED Nepal! The Hidden Truth

[@हिमालदाहाल]

Hypocrisy at its peak! So much for being a "genius," yet can’t even use a correct map in the thumbnail. Pathetic!

[@vanamedia]

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[@lalitthapa101]

And whats also important is that Nepal was complicit and played a very important role in the Successful colonisation and imperialism by the British Empire. Although cant be termed as "partners", I think Nepal can be seen as a Comprador state. It hurts but its true. The 'Braveness' and 'loyalty' of the Gorkha is a construct meant to uphold the machinery of an Evil Colonial Empire. And who benefited the most from it? The Ruling Elite of the Nepal predominantly. Hence, Nepal's supposed Independence is built on helping Imperialism.

[@vanamedia]

We didn’t find mentions of Comprador State but did find several usage of Protectorate state, Tributary state, Suzerainty state etc. Our point is that, We should be aware of how and when someone oils us up to in the name of bravery to be stupid and fight as shields for their war. While the Gurkhas had very limited options, it seems not being brave wasn’t one of them. A lot of them might have been and coerced and many might have simply wanted to escape poverty. We don’t want to blame our own populace for being in such an unfortunate situation.

[@lalitthapa101]

@vanamedia A comprador state designation is one thats not really that prominently used. I used it myself because I feel it better describes the nature of British-Nepal Relations which was of colonialism but not as equal partners, and especially the Nepali ruling elite emerged as the comprador class from it. Imo the whole construct of "brave" "loyal" etc are constructions to justify and uphold the continuance of selling of nepali bodies for the interests of colonial and neo-colonial interests. Like ok, the gurkhas were 'brave'. What were they brave in? Battle probably. Ok, what was the battle against? What did it gain? Who did they fight for? Who was their enemy? The material reality of soldiers does matter and I won't ignore it. What I am saying is that this only further exposes the exploitation nature of the entire construction of the Gorkha soldier, which sells young men on lies of tradition, bravery, and something beyond normality, all for the interests of hegemons against people the soldiers have more in common with. The structure itself is exploitative Which really dosent justify us being the literal foot soldiers of oppression. Instead it gives a much clearer understanding to it. This isnt really blaming but acceptance of the reality of imperialism. These are tough conversations to have but in discourses of colonialism, we just cant forget the active role of the Nepali state in it.

[@melissapradhan_]

Interesting unbiased information! Cannot wait for the next video already

[@vanamedia]

Stay tuned as we have new videos videos in the pipeline!

[@xyz-hx5dh]

I was saying this for many time. Finally some truth

[@vanamedia]

Yes, Treaty of 1923 should get some spotlight and we should be given facts to assess on our own.

[@so62539]

Nepal was colonized by its own people. The atrocities ranas did omg. Actually the British controlled ranas and the ranas in turn controlled Nepal.

[@vanamedia]

Status quo 101

[@Ishitmypantsfull]

Actually the Gorkhali/Shah kings and the Hill Khas/Parbatiya dominance is the colonizer, an internal colonizer. Ranas further consolidated that.

[@GLT-fk7bg]

Truth always bitter

[@Prashantsharma-yg7kj]

It was never a colony, Nepal was never colonized. See east India company map on international sources not nepali, Nepal xaina, never was Politics control garthyo? Sure. Ahile India le garxa. But it was not a colony

[@vanamedia]

That’s the point. Nepal was never an official colony yet unofficially it was. Once we understand nuances in our history and our misplaced patriotism that leaders freely manipulate, we the populace can make informed decision in the upcoming time.

[@melissapradhan_]

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[@abhijeetkundu7123]

I am Kundu/Kund/Kinno. We are originally from Haryana. My community is called Butana Jutt. We were small scale lords. We were never kings or dynasty. We were mercenaries. We were administrators of Mauryan and Gupta empire, later we served the Rajput kings, when they were serving Chauhan Dynasty, they lost a war with the Phogats & joined the Sikh empire. They served Maharaja Ranjit Singh & joined in his Afghanistan campaign. Later they served the British. My own grandfather and great grandfather served in both world wars. Nepalis were no different from us.

[@vanamedia]

Yeah I guess in someways, we all are the same and share similar features and fears.

[@abhijeetkundu7123]

Nepal doesn't have farmlands, they have no natural resources. War is business. When you invest in an army to occupy a particular land, you expect output or income. Nepal doesn't have that. So the military conquests were low budget. If Nepal was like rest of India, things would be very different. Also in medieval times, hills or mountains were hard to conquer. Bangladesh's Chittagong was still 95% Hindu-Buddhist just 50 years ago. Armenia is a Christian country surrounded by Muslims. Muslims couldn't enter South India because of the mountain range but after Afghanistan till Assam it was plain lands. In Assam and in fact in East Bengal, it became an Afghan graveyard.

[@BishamCR]

Sir don't mind but yo topic ma video eti herisaki aba jun video heryo kei content nai navayera banako hoki jasto lagcha. Maybe my algorithm directed me to your video so I could give you a feedback

[@vanamedia]

Thank you for the feedback. We sincerely value it. Most videos on this topic that we researched were in Nepali or Hindi and very few in english (and English ones were by Non-Nepalese), which is why the topics that we cover are primarily made in English (as a Nepali Creators) for foreign audience. We feel that the foreign audience needs to know that we Nepalese are aware of these thing, internally as well as externally. And on top of that we do feel that many Nepalese aren't still acutely aware of our "Misplaced Patriotism". So that's why we did it. Please do let us know what topics you would like to see us explore. :)