Top 10 Epic Historical Mic Drops.
All of the feels.
Make Nepal Awesome Again. #makenepalawesomeagain
All of the feels.
Make Nepal Awesome Again. #makenepalawesomeagain
That does sound pretty awesome!Top 10 Epic Historical Mic Drops.
All of the feels.
Make Nepal Awesome Again. #makenepalawesomeagain
Technically no. It's been 10 years and finally some infrastructural development is starting. It will take timeWell Nepal's modernizing quickly.
Exactly by the standards of the time that is quickly. Australia's first railway was in 1849 and opened in 1855. So Nepal is lucky they are getting some railways when Aus one of the UK's colonies won't gt one for decades.Technically no. It's been 10 years and finally some infrastructural development is starting. It will take time
Patan*Patana Division
You have to be willing to pay after all. Money talksExactly by the standards of the time that is quickly. Australia's first railway was in 1849 and opened in 1855. So Nepal is lucky they are getting some railways when Aus one of the UK's colonies won't gt one for decades.
Eh no. That won't be happening unfortunately.Patan*
And nice update. Perhaps this mission to London means that Nepal can renegotiate some of its lands back?
True. True. 75000 pounds is huge money back thenYou have to be willing to pay after all. Money talks
You glossed over Patan :/Eh no. That won't be happening unfortunately.
Oh right! Sorry. Edited!You glossed over Patan :/
Singha*Sher Division
There is a Sher division in the army.Singha*
Sher is Hindi.
Sorry for minor nitpicks. I can't help myself
Thanks! Will edit the chapter later on in my free time.Up until the end of Chapter 5, developments were moving at a realistic pace and the internal political picture was evolving.
Nepalese railways in 1826 is more than a bridge too far. It is rushing, despite the “coolness” of the notion. There is the separate issue of exactly how news of Stephenson got to the Himalayas in such a short time the year after the opening of the Stockton & Darlington. Furthermore, the process of hiring him is rather gamey.
A better course of action would be to work on roads and think about railways in perhaps the 1860s, when they start to expand in India. That would still be very, very early. There would also be a need for railways.
This plays into the big issue: Nepal at this time doesn’t have the natural resources or trade goods to offer the outside world, let alone persuade the British (offscreen) to be amenable to Nepalese goals. This is the epoch of British expansion on the subcontinent and the Third Anglo-Maratha War is but a heartbeat ago. Later on, the Sikh Empire in the Punjab would be warred against and annexed. It had a lot more power, wealth and force than Nepal, yet it availed in not. Ditto Burma and even a Persia to a certain extent.
Put simply, you aren’t playing the British to their own interests or motivations in an age of imperialism, but as enablers of Nepal’s modernisation and rise. It doesn’t work.
Now, the overall aim of Nepalese independence, modernisation, expansion and what not is achievable, but it isn’t going to be quick, cheap or easy. Sitting right next to British India isn’t a good position to become a truly independent actor until the post Great War era; that may not occur in the same fashion with an 1815 POD.
I really can’t see conscription either being needed or appropriate to Nepal in this era. It might be something to be introduced welk
10 division Army: Far too big, far too quick, far too expensive. It is larger than many European forces. Divisions were of different sizes to the 20th century in the Napoleonic era, which we are still talking about in 1823. A realistic force would be a quarter of that level, or perhaps 40,000 men; even then, the majority would not be trained, clothed or equipped to European standard.
You keep making references to rifles at a time when they were a niche weapon and new development present in small numbers in the most advanced European armies. They would not be standard issue in a small Himalayan state.
I’ll look up some stuff I have on British armaments production in the 1830s; 150,000 muskets would be several years of Britain’s total production, to put it into perspective.
You are on the right track and have a deep knowledge and love of the subject matter which is clearly evident in your writing. You just need to harness that enthusiasm with the bridle of reality, so that you don’t try to do too much too quickly or overstate the cards that Nepal can play. One way of doing that could be to intersperse their storyline with some broad sketches of your intent, throwing it open to the input of others.
Keep it up, but don’t try and get the Himalayan Rome built in just a day.