Prithvi Narayan Shah in the Light of Dibya Upadesh

Author: Ludwig F.S.J. Stiller

These counsels dealt with the geopolitical vulnerability of his newly unified country, and provided directions to the governing elite.

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These counsels dealt with the geopolitical vulnerability of his newly unified country, and provided directions to the governing elite.

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The Dibya Upadesh [Divine Counsels] of Prithvi Narayan Shah the Great [1723-1775], the founder king of the Unified Nepal, is probably the single most significant document which explains the Ghorkha Conquest and his contribution to the newly founded Country. The Dibya Upadesh also explains Prithvi Narayan Shah's accomplishments of the Unification campaign and his counsel to the successors of his seat of power.

About the Author

Ludwig F. Stiller, S. J. is not a new name in Nepal. He was a famous American Nepalese historian who produced a couple of distinguished books on Nepal’s history. The theme of the present work, Nepal: Growth of a Nation, published in 1993, is broad and challenging. It talks about the land and people of Nepal, the vision of the country and its leadership, the politics for profit, control and centralization, and the new awakening. The author covers these themes through the last two hundred years of Nepalese history.