Hindu Nationalists become powerful in Nepal

Nepal is the only Hindu majority country besides India. Could Hindu Nationalism be as big of a thing in Nepal as it is in India, and is there a chance it could become even more powerful than in India?
 
Nepal is the only Hindu majority country besides India. Could Hindu Nationalism be as big of a thing in Nepal as it is in India, and is there a chance it could become even more powerful than in India?

As a Nepali, I'll tell you that Nepal has already been down that route, which is why it became ‘majority’ Hindu in the first place (it’s actually not as hindu as the government data claims in reality and much of that has to do with Brahmins, who we call Bahuns in Nepal, having a very disproportionate amount of government jobs).

You see, under the early shah and Rana rules, it was illegal for people to be converted from being hindu, but it was encouraged to convert people to be Hindu. It was also under the Rana that buddhists were persecuted, the local Newar language was almost wiped out and it was illegal to write in the language (punishable by death or imprisonment), as well as campaigns to convert Magars and other Janajati (a term that means savage or those outside caste system) to be Hindu by offering elevated caste for them (Tamangs were heavily persecuted and made Sundra, which are 2nd lowest caste due to fears by Khas and Newar of them having a large population capable of challenging them for power; Tamangs were Tibetan soldiers that once governed much of nepal before).
 
The Maoists even won the Civil War in 2008 and deposed the King and monarchy.

That’s actually not accurate. The maoists did wage war but they didn’t win.

The one who ended the war was the ruling Communist Party of Nepal- Unified Marxist-Leninist (one of the first few communist parties already in Nepal since the late 90’s).
Error on my part there. The marxist-Leninists were established in roughly 1994, with the Maoists breaking off from them in 1995. The new elected government didn’t let them run for office and started persecuting communists and their allies, which led the maoists to make a 40-point demand to stop the persecutions, but the government didn’t listen and the peoples war started in 1996 when the Prime Minister was in India. Anyways, the Marxist-Leninists came to government power in 1997 and Nepal became the only nation to have a democratically elected communist government under a Constitutional Hindu Monarchy.

The monarchy was removed because the monarch at that time was the former kings cousin (due to the royal massacre) and people didn’t like him that much.

Add to that him taking up power by dissolving parliament (this is especially important in that the former king Birendra was responsible for establishing a formal parliamentary democracy in the 90’s; removing the beloved kings legacy was seen as a slap to his legacy).
 
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