Kanchapur

Kanchapur lies in the far western Terai, where the Himalayan foothills descend towards the plains and the Mahakali River marks the western edge of the country. Forest and grassland spread across this lowland beneath the mountains. After the Anglo-Nepalese War, the Treaty of Sugauli in 1816 ceded territory to the East India Company and made the Kali, or Mahakali, a major boundary of Nepal. The western Terai was among the lands affected by the settlement.