Butter_Cracker why am i to be glad malla ruled kathmandu?why am i to appreciate the wrong history? well　the last king Jayprakash of kathmamdu and Ranjit Singh of bhaktapur is a living proof malla had their army. In malla regeim people who were decleared desh drohi (that era and today's era all against the king are called desh drohi by his baraute, nepal hasn't changed a lot though)'s skin were cut off it was know as jeudai chala kadne, practised still after shah regeim till today by kings army. building new era's building doesn't make any one a good ruler. like nepesahila said rana's building are really good they show us the glory dats of 19th centuary but were people happy then? if rana were before shah you would be praising them for their buildings too. dckta do more research pratap malla was a wise man at his time he was the only man who could wrtie "winter" and he did in one of the walls near taleju. but he was a power hunger like shah king too he emprisonned his father to be the king. And talking of sati system do u know who banned it? yes it was chandra samsher and he banned the slavery in nepal but was he a good ruler? think about it. one two good deeds of a people can't hid the misdeed they have commited. Anyway all this royals are blood suckers and they will remain until we give them free blood to feed