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Up-country bazaar and changing forces
The Himalayan hinterland, for all its isolation, has never been far from the economic forces at play in the rest of the subcontinent and the world. Change in bazaar towns was not always for the better.
Common interpretations frame change in terms of the same obvious political events which are accepted as cumulatively making up Nepal´s history. Starting with unification in the 18th century, these events include the ministerial takeovers by the Thapa and Rana families in the 19th, and, in the 20th, the revolution of 1950-51 which brought the fall of, the Rana regime, and the people´s movement of 199O which ended the Panchayat system.