Treaty of Thapathali

Treaty of Thapathali

Treaty of Thapathali(1856)
Signed	24 March 1856 (Chaitra 3, 1912 B.S.)
Location	Thapathali, Kathmandu, Nepal
Effective	24 March 1856

The Treaty of Thapathali was a treaty signed between the Tibetan Ganden Phodrang regime (then under administrative rule of the Qing dynasty) and the Kingdom of Nepal in Thapathali Durbar in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, following the Nepalese–Tibetan War. In January 1856, a representative group of Tibet came to Kathmandu for discussion of treaty. After a long discussion, the representative group ultimately signed in Thapathali a treaty on 24 March.

Tibetan were continuously defeated due to the lack of arms and ammunition. The voice of treaty started to raise as soon as the war was postponed. A meeting of delegation teams was called in Shikarjong but no decision was made. Nepali delegation team returned as they were to discuss with prime minister, Jung Bahadur Rana. In the meeting with Tibetan delegation, Jung Bahadur demanded one crore rupees for expenses of war and for returning the Tibetan land captured by Nepal. It was very hard for Tibetan delegation to make such a decision so Kaji Til Bikram was sent to Sikarjong along with the Tibetan in September. The ambassador of China replied with proud that he can give four lakhs rupees for war expenses and five lakhs rupees as penantly for the destruction of Nepalese troops in Lhasa. The ambassador also replied that the Tibet is a state of China and the Emperor gave it to Nuns only for religious purpose so Tibet was not subjected to give even one palm length of land to Nepal; if Nepal did not returned immediately from Tibet then Nepal must be ready to fight war with China. As Nepalese were not in support of this condition, the attempt of Treaty failed.

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