King Mahendra's 1960 Coup and Nepal's Panchayat System
In December 1960, King Mahendra of Nepal dissolved the elected government, arrested Prime Minister B.P. Koirala and his cabinet, and banned all political parties. This episode traces the events leading to the royal coup, the instability of Nepal's first democratic experiment after the 1951 Delhi Accord, and the creation of the Panchayat system—a partyless 'guided democracy' that centralized power in the monarchy. We explore Mahendra's motivations, the 1962 constitution that institutionalized Panchayat, the suppression of dissent, and the 1980 referendum that narrowly kept the system alive. Finally, we look at how the Panchayat era shaped Nepal's political identity until its collapse in the 1990 Jana Andolan, and the contested legacy of a king who promised stability but left a fractured democracy.
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