Rookmangud katawal atmakatha autobiography

Military politics is not uncommon in human history. In the past, rulers and soldiers worked in tandem as masters and servants trained to sacrifice their lives on the order of the former.

Nepal civil war

The army, therefore, became a perennial backbone of the personified ruler. Without an army, no state-centric or ruler-centric politics was ever envisaged. Nepali history, in particular, is a military history that has a wide narrative of conquests, wars, formation of territories with force and coups.

Additionally, during the Rana period, all family members were decorated with military honours, as if the army and the family oligarchy were one.

A recent autobiography by former Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) Rookmangud Katawal, Rookmangud Katawal: Atmakatha, has not only provided glimpses of the Nepali military as an institution but also the continuation of the old tradition of court politics where plots and counter-plots changed the course of political history, setting off a series of systemic and go