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Relations with the British commenced in 1767 when,
owing to Goorkha invasions under Raja Pirthi Narain,
the Nawar Raja of Katmandhu asked for British aid,
A commercial treaty was made in 1792. The residency
 was first established in 1801, but from 1804 to
1816 all political relations were closed. In that year
the British government, having proved victorious in
war, obtained the treaty of Segowlie, The area is
supposed to be 54,000 square miles, the population
two or three millions, and the revenue Rs. 10,000,000
a vear.

It is a curious feature of the moderation of the
British that they have submitted to the territories of
Afghanistan, Nipal and, to some extent, Kashmir,
being practically closed to British subjects. These
states have political relations and alliances with the
British government, and yet they rigorously exclude
British subjects from their dominions.” Such a state
of things could not exist in Europe even between
really independent nations ; and no other government
but our own would tolerate it anywhere,

Stkkim, Bhutan. and Sian.

Beyond Nipal there is the tributary and protected
 state of Sikkim, and the independent state of
Bhutan ; then another cluster of hill tribes on the
borders of Assam; then the independent states of
Upper Burma and Siam ; and, lastly, the Malayan
peninsula and eastern archipelago,