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A side road makes it easy to visit Gorkha, ancestral seat of the Shah dynasty and city from which the unification of Nepal was begun.
Prithvi Narayan Shah, “The Great,” was born in 1723, in the ninth generation of a line of Hindu princes of Gorkha, a hill town whose lands adjoined those of Kathmandu to the east.
The British invaded Nepal from India in 1814 but were repulsed by the king’s soldiers from Gorkha — thus earning all subsequent Nepali fighting men the name “Gurkhas” (see page 61).
In recent years Maoist activity in the area has limited the number of people visiting Gorkha.
A Gorkha Welfare Scheme (GWS) has been introduced for these ex-servicemen and their dependents.