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TREATY OF SEGOWLEE*

02.12.1815

TREATY of PEACE between the HONOURABLE EAST lNDIA COMPANY AND MAHA
RAJAH BlRKRAM SAH, Rajah of Nipal, settled between LIEUTENANT–COLONEL

BRADSHAW on the part of the HONOURABLE COMPANY in virtue of the full powers
vested in him by HIS EXCELLENCY the RlGHT HONOURABLE FRANCIS, EARL of MOIRA,

KNIGHT of the MOST NOBLE ORDER of the GARTER, one of HIS MAJESTY's MOST
HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL, appointed by the Court of Directors of the said
Honourable Company to direct and control all the affairs in the East lndies, and by

SREE GOOROO GUJRAJ MISSER and CHUNDER SEEKUR OPEDEEA on the part of
MAHA RAJAH GIRMAUN JODE BIKRAM SAH BAHAUDER, SHUMSHEER JUNG, in virtue of

the powers to that effect vested in them by the said Rajah of Nipal, - 2nd December
1815.

Whereas war has arisen between the Honourable East India Company and
the Rajah of Nipal, and whereas the parties are mutually disposed to restore the
relations of peace and amity which, previously to the occurrence of the late

differences, had long subsisted between the two States, the following terms of
peace have been agreed upon :-

ARTICLE 1st

There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between the Honourable East

India Company and the Rajah of Nipal.

ARTICLE 2nd

The Rajah of Nipal renounces all claim to the lands which were the subject of
discussion between the two States before the war; and acknowledges the right of

the Honourable Company to the sovereignty of those lands.

ARTICLE 3rd

The Rajah of Nipal hereby cedes to the Honourable the East India Company
in perpetuity all the under mentioned territories, viz.-

First – the whole of the low lands between the Rivers Kali and Rapti.

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