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Baise Rajya

Baise Rajya

Former confederation in Nepal

Baise Rajya (Nepali: बाइसे राज्यहरू, lit. '22 kingdoms') were sovereign and intermittently allied petty kingdoms on the Indian subcontinent, ruled by Khasas from medieval Nepal, located around the Karnali-Bheri river basin of modern-day Nepal. The Baise were annexed during the unification of Nepal from 1744 to 1810. The gorkha kingdom's founder Prithvi Narayan Shah (ruled 1743–1775) did not live to see this, but his son and grandson annexed the entire collection by the end of the 18th century.

Karnali River (labelled Ghaghra) among the tributaries of the Ganges
Copper Inscription by Baise King of Doti, Raika Mandhata Shahi at Saka Era 1612 (शाके १६१२) (or 1747 Bikram Samvat) in old Khas language using Devanagari script.

The 24 principalities were Jumla, Doti, Jajarkot, Bajura, Gajur, Malneta, Thalahara, Dailekh District, Dullu, Duryal, Dang, Sallyana, Chilli, House of Tulsipur, Darnar, [1] Atbis Gotam, Majal, Gurnakot, and Rukum.[lower-alpha 1] These Baise along with Chaubisi rajya states were ruled by Khasas and several decentralized tribal polities.[3]

List of Rajyas (22 states)

More information Rajya, Annexation to Nepal ...

A parallel confederation of 24 principalities Chaubisi rajya (Nepali: चौबिसी राज्य) occupied most of the Gandaki basin east of the Baisi.

See also

Notes

  1. According to Pradhan, the Baise States included Kumaon, Garhwal in the west, Western Tibet in the north and Surkhet alogwith inner Terai valleys in the south.[2]

Citations

  1. [1]
    Account of the Kingdom of Nepal, and of the Territories annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha by Francis Hamilton (formerly Buchanan) M.D., 1819
  2. [2]
    Pradhan 2012, p. 4.
  3. [3]
    Pradhan 2012, p. 3.
  4. [4]
    Extract from 'The Gurkhas' of Eden Vansittart (based upon the 'Notes on Nepal', 1895 AD and 'Notes on Gurkhas' 1890 AD), Anmol Publications, New Delhi, Re-print 1993
  5. [5]
    "Sketches from Nipal, Historical and Descriptive with Anecdotes from......" by Henry Ambrose Oldfield, M.D.; W.H.Allen & Co., London, 1880. Vol.I, P.23
  6. [6]
    Baise Chaubise Parichaya (An introduction to the Baise and Chaubise principalities). Nepali, quarterly. Published by the Madan Puraskar Guthi, Sridarbartol, Lalitpur, Magh-Chaitra, 2032 (January–March 1976), pp. 3-38. [Mahan Bahadur Malla]
  7. [7]
    "The Rajya Rajauta Ain" (Rajya System Abolition Act) of 2019 V.S. (1961)

Sources

  • Pradhan, Kumar L. (2012), Thapa Politics in Nepal: With Special Reference to Bhim Sen Thapa, 1806–1839, New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, ISBN 9788180698132


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