Source: – Ajan / Twitter.
This is how Gautama Buddha's birthplace ended up in Nepal. From Book snippet from The Partial Revolution
Labour, Social Movements and the Invisible Hand of Mao in Western Nepal
Michael Hoffmann pic.twitter.com/NIzaSRj7cO— Void (@JajaborPathik) August 1, 2018
"The British Government
hereby bestows on the Maharajah
of Nipal in full sovereignty,
the whole of the
lowlands between the Rivers
Kali and Raptee, and
the whole of the lowlands
lying between the River
Raptee and the District of
Gorukpore"
– British-Nepal Treaty 1860, Article 2nd— Void (@JajaborPathik) August 1, 2018