cleo, a king is leader.. a captain of the ship, when the ship goes down, all fingers do point at the captain.. the captain like the leader cannot shift the blame. lets face it shahs had a lot of time... 230 years to give their inout..those parbas were mainly caused by their associates.. that is true.. but what kind of leadership chooses such deceitful subordinates.. the durbaria politics was nothing new.. if the kings did not have the forthsight to see the disaster, they did not deserve to rule over the great people of Nepal. why should 12 pusta have power and all the fun because prithvi narayan shah had the vison and the guts.. as i have said the ranas ruled for 107 years overver impotent and infant kings showing further flaws in the monarchy system of governance.. constitution monarchy could have worked.. but stupid gyanendra further split the country from maoist and the rest to.. maoist, political party to durbarias.. if only he could have united us like his ancestor prithvi narayan shah.....if only..