Gulmi

Gulmi was one of the Chaubisi principalities of Nepal’s western hills. It had belonged to Palpa before becoming an independent kingdom, making its history part of the changing relationships among neighbouring hill courts. The principality was small beside powers such as Palpa, Parbat and Pyuthan.

Gorkhali expansion reached Gulmi in the late eighteenth century. Its conquest is dated to 1786. Its earlier independence then gave way to incorporation within the expanding Nepalese kingdom. Gulmi’s political history records one of the individual hill states absorbed during unification, rather than a region that had always formed part of a single centralised Nepal.