GARHWAL -KUMAON - NEPAL GURKHAYANI Gurkha rulers were the nepali origin people who were very efficient in battle skills and were very ferocious . In 1790 they took advantage of the weakness of the kumaon regime and defeated the ruler of kumaon Mahendra chand in Hawalabag easily and captured Almora .In 1791 they captured the whole kumaon region . After conquring kumaon they tried to conquer garhwal region in 1791 but defeated in Langurgarh . The ruler of garhwal ageed on a treaty with gurkhas to protect them from further intrusions .Now the ruler of garhwal have to pay 25000 rupees per year to the gurkhas for not attacking them again . But in february 1803 the gurkhas again in the leadership of Amar Singh Thapa and Hastidal Chautriya attacked garhwal . At that time garhwal was affacted by a major devastataing earthquake and the gurkhas took advantage of this opportunity and defeate garhwal . The garhwal king Pradyuman Sh
ea of india and 18th largesr state of the country. It is situated in 28°43'N -31°27'S latitude and 77°34' E -81°02' W longitude. Surrounded by Tibet Himalaya (China) north ,tons river from the west , Kali river (Nepal) from east, and plain areas of India from South. International boundaries are attached with Nepal and China. Situated at an altitude of 7,817m from sea level . Highest rainfall was recorded 1606mm in 2007. Highest temperature was recorded 42.2 degree Celsius in pantnagar (2009). Lowest temperature was recorded as -3.7degree Celsius (mukteshwar).
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