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After King Birendra became sovereign in 1972 — tenth in the line of Shah rulers since King Prithvi the Great — a referendum in which all Nepalis over 21 were eligible to vote confirmed the popular preference for the panchayat system over a return to multi-party democracy.
Governmental/legal terms: batta, begar, chaprasi, dakoit, dakoity, dhan, dharna, kotwal, kotwali, panchayat, pottah, sabha
In 1990, in the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse, Nepalis once again took to the streets to demand an end to the panchayat system.
After an experiment with elections and parliamentary democracy, King Mahendra abolished the constitution in 1962 and instituted the system of “panchayat democracy.”