I have read little bit of the Nepalese history. Prithvin Narayan Shah was on the way to Makawanpur-his parent-in law’s principality. From the hills of Makawanpur, he got the view of beautiful Kathmandu Valley (Nepal) and he got allured and murmured himself “I wished I could be the king of such a beautiful country”. He had to go to Makawanpur second time again to get his wife back and again he was fascinated by the beauty of Kathmandu. He felt inferior himself being the king of a hilly principality like Gorkha and he decided that some day he would become the king of Nepal. As a strategic planning, he developed friendship with the prince of Bhaktapur and spent two years there to understand the socio-economic-political situation of Nepal. So, its clear that Prithvi Shah’s unification process (I would rather term it as expansion) was motivated by his thirst and ambition of being the king of a beautiful and prosperous and wealthy principality. Some of the principalities like Makawanpur, Lamjung, Palpa were invaded because of his personal rivalry with them. So, its his thirst of power and wealth that lead him to expand Gorkha. Had Prithvi Narayan Shah not united Nepal, would we still remain Nepali? Who cares this hypothetical question? Then, only the Kathmandu Valley was called Nepal and only its inhabitants were Nepali. Others were Gorkhali or Palpali or Makawanpurey or so on. Had India invaded us that time, we would have become proud Indian today and had Chinese invaded, we would have been a proud Chinese today, as much proud as we are Nepali today. Dibya jee, did you plan in heaven to born as Nepali or you became Nepali because you were born in Nepal to Nepalese parents? It doesn’t make sense to question today whether we would become Indian, had Prithvi Narayan Shah not united Nepal. There was chance that we could become British or Japanese as they were also expanding.. And would Prithvi Narayan Shah have been successful without the support and participation of people? Did he go alone with Gorkhali Khukuri? Nepalese history describes the heroic adventures of certain king or prince or commander and overlooks the individuals who sacrificed themselves for the country. So, we people have contributed as much as or even more than the Prithvi Narayan Shah or his successors and King G can not claim that his ancestors earned this kingdom. Hadn’t King Tribhuwan with all family abandoned Nepal in 2007 and went in refuge of Jawaharlal Neharu and asked him to annex Nepal? It’s the parties and people who brought him back, dethroned the Ranas and re-installed him? Yet, when the situation augments adversely, the Royal Family would flee from the country with the wealth they have amassed. There is already rumor that his last trip to Africa was in preparation for fleeing the country and looking a nice place for him to settle. To certain extent, it sounds logic otherwise there was no point to visit those countries with whom Nepal has not any “lena-dena”.