Jumla

Jumla was a major centre among the western Himalayan principalities known as the Baise states. It inherited part of the political world of the Khasa Malla kingdom, whose power reached a high point under Prithvi Malla in the mid-fourteenth century. As that larger realm fragmented, Jumla remained influential in the Karnali country and maintained relations with neighbouring mountain kingdoms.

The kingdom's reach was felt in Mustang, which came under Jumla's influence at different times in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Its independence ended during the Gorkhali expansion. Forces attacked in 1787, and after prolonged resistance Jumla was conquered in 1789. The names of its last ruler vary between chronicles and later accounts, but the fall of the kingdom marked the end of an important centre of western Himalayan power. The valley's royal documents and chronicles preserve a regional history that extends beyond the later boundaries of Nepal.