Interview With AIM President CK Raut

Advertisement The nation of Madhesh (Madhyadesh) exists since the beginning of human civilisation on the Indian Subcontinent. Vedas, Puranas, and other ancient texts have abundant descriptions of Madhyadesh. According to the Vedic Civilisation, Ikshwaku or Okkāka, the son of Vaivaswata Manu and the grandson of Vivaswan, is regarded as the first significant king of Madhyadesh. Thirty four dynasties after him, we have much celebrated generation of Ram, and Sita, the daughter of King Janak whose capital is said to be at the current town of Janakpur in Madhesh, Nepal. Not only Sita, Madhesh is also the birth place of Buddha. The Buddhist Canon like Vinay Pitak, too, gives the precise boundaries of Madhyadesh, also known as Majjimdesh in Pali, which extends 400 miles further to the east than the Manu's time. It used to be such a vast land then. Madhesh was ruled by several great dynasties in ancient and medieval times, from Emperor Ashoka to King Salhesh, and finally it came under the control of Muslim Rulers and British. At the later stage of the British Raj in India, Sen Kings ruled Madhesh, mostly as suzerainty states. These kings paid taxes to Nawabs and the East India Company. The part of Madhesh present today in Nepal is a result of the memorandum of 1816 and the treaty of 1860 with the East India Company and Nepal. Through the memorandum of 8th December 1816, the East India Company handed the eastern part of Madhesh, between Koshi and Rapti rivers, to Nepal, instead of paying two hundred thousands rupees per year. British used to pay this amount to Nepal upon the request of the King of Nepal to support the living cost of his employees. The western part of Madhesh between Rapti and Mahakali rivers came to Nepal through the treaty of 1860, as a reward to Gurkhas, for their support to the East India Company in suppressing the Sepoy Mutiny in India, in the late 1850s. This is how Madhesh became a colony of Nepal. And since the beginning of the colonisation, the ruling class Nepali conspired to seize the lands of Madheshis and displace them from Madhesh. The ruling class Nepalis made Madheshis second class citizens and slaves on their own land, treating them like POWs, as Madheshis had fought on the side of British against the Gurkhas in the Anglo-Gurkha war of 1814-16

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