Fact History of baglung

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Centuries later the Democratic Revolution of 1951 AD, marked a new era in Nepalese Tourism. The gates of Nepal were opened wider for all foreign visitors. The most exhilarating titles with which Nepal has been admired and praised by various renowned travel authors in recognition of her cultural richness, viz., Living cultural Museum, Shangri-la, Roof of the World, Birth place of the Apostle of Peace, Country of Living Goddess, City of Golden Pagodas & Parasols, Himalayan Pilgrimage, Wildest Dream of Kew, Nature amphitheater, melting pot of Hinduism & Buddhism, A tiny Kingdom of thirty-six ethnic groups & seventy-five spoken languages, Birth place of Sita, Abode of Shiva, Land of Mysticism & Exoticism, Land of non-stop festivals etc. are explicit and self explanatory. They tell the world about our incomparable & prosperous cultural heritage. Thousands of visitors from abroad come to Nepal to quench their visual thirst and their thirst to know “Nepal” and its myriad exotic natural cultural and spiritual features, Tourism is now insuperable part of Nepalese way of life and HMG is committed for its best development sharing hands with Private Sector. The designation of 1998 as Visit Nepal 1998 is a determined step taken by the Nepalese people towards making Nepal a known destination for the visitors.

This brochure is an attempt to bring our visitors some information about newly explored, identified, endemic products apart from the conventional mountaineering, trekking, rafting activities. The interesting anthropological, natural, cultural and endemic tours included in this booklet might require the visitors to hire some resource personnel to learn more about the cultural & anthropological products which can be arranged through travel agents.

In 14 century King of Jumla had extended his state in 1429 B.S. During that time Magar community were in all over the Baglung of Nishal bhujal of 4000 Mountain. At the same time in Rukum son of Malbam – “Pitamber” and Grandchild “Juitubam” used to rule the kingdom.

To run the Magar state of Baglung properly, they had asked 8th brother of Rukum kingdom for ruling out. The king of Rukum said to Magar of Balgung,”You can’t take my elder son instead you can take any of my son.” Then Magar of Balgung took “Ananda Bam”.On history said that,along with Ananda Bam other also like mudula karki,rucheal and poudel had came.in 1510 B.S, AnadanBam became the King of Sholaypar mountain. On the same time Galkot, Bhuekot and chandrakot were ruled by Bhure King and among that Balewa and Baglung were under Majkhot state where as Thainthap were under Chandrakot state.

After Ananda bam and Chandra bam, the name Dimba called Delip extended his state from 4000 mountain to 14000 mountain state including Bihukot,Galkot andTakam.to their state in a proper way Delip bam separated different state to give responsibility to his brother like Middle brother as the head of Dandakot, another brother as the head of Behukot and younger brother as the head of Galkot.On the rainy season King Dimbo used be in Dhure and in winter he used to in Takam to run his state.

According to Hamilton, “Galkot is a small state where 3000 houses and place of king was in hillside. Around the palace there were 500 cottages. There were 3 copper and 1 steel mills and king yearly income was Rupees 3500.the king handed over his state without fighting with Gorkhali Army”.

According to Corck Patrick, Galkot was known to be big state.there was huge rock.Galkot was one of the twenty-four houndred states. During the time of Dimba, King of Gandaki and Karnali in every five years they used to give like Kasturi’s bina, eagle, lophoferos ,peacock ,skin of leopard and shawl of pasmina as a gift to King’s of Delhi. King Dimba send his son prince Nagbam to Delhi in 1530 B.S and “Malla” was granted to him and after that his surname began like Nagbam Malla. On his time he had won several area till east of Madi khola, for his respect local people began to start calling Malla state till now we called Mallaj. King Dimba was alive upto 120 year age.By the time he was 85 year old, his elder son Nagbam was not well so he gave away his state to his grand child Pratapi Narayan in 1590 B.S. During his period there were a lot of jungle where different activites like cattle farming and many importance work were done there.the gold and salt were imported from Bhoth (now it’s Tibet).

As soon as Partavi Narayan Malla became the king he married to the daughter of King Mukunda Sen from Palpa King. While departing from Palpa King Mukunda Sen gave the statue of Kalika Devi as a gift. Now days the same statue of Kalika is situated almost 3 km away from town in between Krishna Gandaki (kaligandaki) and Katekhola. Nobody was able to carry the sword of Kali initially. One of Kunwar chhetri finally was able to carry the sword and hence was given the title of Khadka (‘khadga’ meaning the sword).

After 30 years of his Kingdom, he gave different responsibilities for his son like: elders son Kiranti Bam Malla got Galkot state, Rajbam got Parbat and Kalian Bam Malla got Kaski . Then the King Pratapi Narayan Malla goes to stay in Kasi.

It was annexed to Greater Nepal under unification war led by King Prithvi Narayan Shah. Under unified Nepal, several government Offices were established and the town was proclaimed as administrative Headquarter of the region. Since then it has remained the most important Political and economical town in the Dhaulagiri Zone. It is the headquarters of Dhaulagiri Zone and Baglung district.