Thought I would share this one with sajhaites. "I mean think about this: if a king of the poorest of the chaubise kingdom- Gorkha had no market, no mines, and with 12,000 population was considered a small country- could win three ‘mighty’ kingdoms of the valley, how safe you were really from the mighty and cunning British, who needed a ‘hill station’ and a ‘trade route’ to Tibet? The British needed a decent hill station so badly that later, they settled in a barren land later to be called Darjiling." From http://www.blog.com.np/united-we-blog/2007/01/14/nepal-in-transition-terai-secession-is-a-myth/ --