BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sources

NepalRajya is a synthesis, not original research. Dates and boundaries are drawn from the histories below, cross-checked against Wikipedia where a specialist text wasn't directly available, and flagged as approximate in the story text wherever the sources themselves disagree.

For the treaties, law codes and constitutions cited throughout — Sugauli, the Muluki Ain, the 1950 and 1990s-era constitutions — see the Documents page, which links each to a full primary or archival text rather than a summary. For the Kathmandu–Lhasa trade, the mohar and the rupee, see Trade & Currency. For Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan, see Neighbors.

Histories consulted

The Rise of the House of Gorkha ↗Ludwig F. Stiller
The standard English-language account of Prithvi Narayan Shah’s unification campaign, drawing on Gorkhali court records.
A Concise History of Nepal (Nepalko Sankshipta Vrittanta) ↗Baburam Acharya
The foundational modern synthesis of Nepali history, and the source for much of the standard chronology used here. Corrected from an earlier, incorrect title on this page ("A New History of Nepal") — no book by that name exists; this is the real English title.
Ancient and Medieval Nepal ↗D. R. Regmi
Covers the Licchavi, Thakuri and Malla periods in the Kathmandu Valley in detail.
Thatched Huts and Stucco Palaces: Peasants and Landlords in 19th Century Nepal ↗Mahesh Chandra Regmi
Economic and land-tenure history of the Rana era, including the Baise and Chaubise hill states.
Treaty of Sugauli and related Anglo-Nepalese War records ↗British India Foreign Department / Nepali court chronicles
Primary treaty text and campaign accounts behind the Greater Nepal (1789–1816) boundaries shown on the map. The treaty’s original physical copies are reportedly lost — not held in Nepal’s national archives — so the text below is a transcription, not a scan of the original document.
A History of Nepal ↗John Whelpton
A one-volume academic overview (Cambridge University Press, 2005), added as a stronger fallback than bare Wikipedia for dates and context the five specialist histories above don’t cover — though the "not otherwise cited" entries below haven’t all been individually re-checked against it yet.

Map & boundary data

District boundaries (modern Nepal) ↗
A community-maintained boundary dataset derived from MOFAGA (Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration, formerly MoFALD) district shapefiles. No explicit license is stated by the source — worth a formal attribution check before any public launch.
Historical-region boundaries (Kumaon, Garhwal, Sikkim Terai) ↗
geoBoundaries.org India ADM2 district data, sourced from the DataMeet India community. Licensed CC BY 4.0 — corrected on this page from an earlier, incorrect "CC BY 2.5 IN / Open Database License" note; geoBoundaries’ own published license is CC BY 4.0.
Dates, reigns and events not otherwise cited
Cross-checked against Wikipedia and its cited sources where a dedicated Nepali-history text wasn’t directly consulted — flagged in the relevant story text as approximate where the sources themselves disagree.
Current national statistics (population, area, local levels) ↗
National Population and Housing Census 2021, National Statistics Office, Government of Nepal — the country’s official decennial census and the primary source behind the present-day figures shown on the homepage. Only the published national/district report figures are used here; the underlying microdata is not open — the NSO requires a signed licensing agreement, under the Statistics Act 2022, for access to that.
Further reading on present-day Nepal ↗
Nepal in Data (nepalindata.com), an independent statistics portal run by Bikas Udhyami, aggregates census, health, education and economic datasets by district and sector for readers who want to go beyond the headline figures shown here. Datasets there are licensed CC BY 4.0.