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{{Infobox military award
|name= Nepal Medal
|image=[[File:Nepal Medal, 1816.jpg|160px]]
|caption= Obverse of the medal depicted on a [[cigarette card]]
|presenter=[[File:Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg|30px]] the Honourable [[East India Company]] (HEIC)
|type=
|eligibility= HEIC forces
|awarded_for= Distinguished conduct
|campaign= [[Anglo-Nepalese War]] (1814-16)
|status=
|description=Circular silver medal
|clasps= None
|established= 1816
|total_awarded=300
|image2= [[File:Yellow cord suspension for early medals of the HEIC.png|75px]]
|caption2=Suspension cord for the medal
}}
The '''Nepal Medal''' was awarded by the Honourable [[East India Company]] (HEIC) to native Indian officers, and Indian soldiers for particularly distinguished conduct, during the [[Anglo-Nepalese War]] of 1814–16.<ref name=Steward>{{cite book|last1=Steward|first1=William Augustus|title=War Medals and Their History|page=[https://archive.org/details/warmedalstheirhi00stewrich/page/87 87]|date=1915|publisher=Stanley Paul & Co.|location=London|url=https://archive.org/details/warmedalstheirhi00stewrich|accessdate=8 April 2019}}</ref>

==Criteria==
The War was fought between the British HEIC and the [[Kingdom of Nepal]] as a result of border disputes between the two countries. The war ended in 1816 with the [[Sugauli Treaty|Treaty of Sugauli]], in which Nepal ceded territory to the HEIC, agreed to a British representative in [[Kathmandu]] and allowed Britain to recruit [[Gurkha]]s for military service with the HEIC.

The medal was authorised on 20 March 1816 by the [[Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings|Marquess of Hastings]], [[Governor-General of India]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Narbeth|first1=Colin|title=Collecting Military Medals: A Beginner's Guide|date=1971|publisher=The Lutterworth Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=0718890094|page=52|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z6vlQEDyC9MC&q=Nepal+war+medal&pg=PA21|accessdate=8 April 2019}}</ref> for award to all native Indian officers, and to selected native soldiers of the [[Presidency armies|armies of the Honourable East India Company]] for distinguished zeal and courage during the War.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/medalsdecoration01mayouoft|last=Mayo|first=John Horsley|title=Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy, Volume I|year=1897|publisher=A. Constable & Co|page=[https://archive.org/details/medalsdecoration01mayouoft/page/162 162]|accessdate=8 April 2019}}</ref> A total of 300 medals were awarded.<ref name=Joslin>{{Cite book|author=Joslin, Litherland and Simpkin.|title=British Battles and Medals.|page=100. Published Spink, London. 1988}}</ref>

While members of the [[British Army]] present were not eligible for the medal, surviving British soldiers, and native soldiers serving with HEIC forces who had not received the Nepal Medal, were entitled to the [[Army of India Medal]] with clasp ''Nepaul'', when this medal was established in 1851.<ref name=Steward/> It had initially been proposed that, rather than the Army of India Medal, surviving Indian veterans would receive the 1816 Nepal Medal. It was however finally decided that they would be entitled to the Army of India Medal, provided they had not been awarded the 1816 Medal at the time.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/medalsdecoration02mayouoft|last=Mayo|first=John Horsley|title=Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy, Volume II|year=1897|publisher=A. Constable & Co|pages=[https://archive.org/details/medalsdecoration02mayouoft/page/333 333] and 546-548|accessdate=8 April 2019}}</ref>

==Description==
The medal is silver and was struck at the [[India Government Mint, Kolkata|Calcutta Mint]]. It is {{convert|2.0|in|mm}} in diameter<ref name=Mussell>{{Cite book|author=John Mussell (ed).|title=Medal Yearbook 2015.|page=121. Token Publishing Ltd. Honiton, Devon}}</ref> and has the following design:<ref name=Joslin/> 
The obverse depicts a fortified mountain-top with, in the foreground, a cannon and troops marching with a flag and fitted bayonets behind a hill. There is no inscription. The reverse has the [[Persian language|Persian]] inscription ''This medal was conferred by the [[Nawab]] Governor-General [[Baghatur]], in testimony of the energy, good service, skill and intrepidity which was displayed during the campaigns in the hills, in the [[Hijri year]]s 1229 and 1230''. The medal was issued unnamed. The suspension is a flattened loop, pinned at the base, through which passes a suspension cord or narrow ribbon, allowing the medal to be worn around the neck.

==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Campaign medals of the Honourable East India Company}}
[[Category:British campaign medals]]
[[Category:Medals of the Honourable East India Company]]
[[Category:Awards established in 1816]]

Nepal Medal - Revision history

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