Did India exile shape Nepal kings fate?
By Sudeshna Sarkar. Kathmandu, Nepal, 11:32 AM IST In a land where myths and superstitions play a dominant role, history too seems to have played a major part in shaping the future of Nepal and the destiny of its Shah kings. In New Delhi’s Nehru Memorial Museum and Library there exists a wealth of documents, including tapes of conversation with one of the prime shapers of Nepal’s history, which indicates that happenings in the late 1940s have a direct link to the country’s first constituent assembly election on Thursday. B.P. Koirala, Nepal’s first elected prime minister and one of the architects of the pro-democracy movement in 1950 that succeeded in ending the authoritarian regime of the dynastic Rana prime ministers, gave a series of interviews nearly 30 years ago unfolding the plan his Nepali Congress had at that time for the royal family. However, the plan was demolished by India, which too was keen on bringing the royal family under its own control in order to have a better grip
