BOOK REVIEW: The war that almost changed Nepal’s history

Marcus Potter’s ‘Crisis on the Northern Frontier’ uncovers the forgotten years when the British nearly launched a second invasion of Nepal—and why it never happened.

When discussing the early nineteenth-century foreign relations, lodged in the Nepali memory is the Anglo-Nepali War of 1814 to 1816, which ended in the Treaty of Sugauli, followed by 1857, when Rana Nepal sided with the East India Company during the Sepoy Mutiny. The years in between are largely absent from national recollection.