The Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal: Introductory Note

The Constitution of Nepal promulgated by President Ram Baran Yadav on September 20, 2015 is the seventh constitution in the history of the country.1 Much of the early constitutional history of Nepal after the country had emerged as a distinct political entity following conquest of the last of the three kingdoms in the Kathmandu Valley by the rulers of Ghorka—a small kingdom in the Western hills of the Kathmandu valley—in the eighteenth century had been dominated by the Rana regime. This regime was established by Jang Bahadur Kunwar—or Jang Bahadur Rana, as he...