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Following conflict with the British East India Company, Maharani [[Jind Kaur]], the youngest wife of Maharaja [[Ranjit Singh]], managed to escape from the Punjab disguised as a servant girl and came to Nepal via Nepalgunj on 29 April, 1849. The Nepalese government gave her shelter. Later, she went to London, but those Sikhs who remained in Nepal started their livelihood there. A few Nepalgunj territories near the Indian border are still called Shikhhanpurwa, Jamunaha and Bankatwa.<ref name="State of neglet, the Kathmandu post"/> | Following conflict with the British East India Company, Maharani [[Jind Kaur]], the youngest wife of Maharaja [[Ranjit Singh]], managed to escape from the Punjab disguised as a servant girl and came to Nepal via Nepalgunj on 29 April, 1849. The Nepalese government gave her shelter. Later, she went to London, but those Sikhs who remained in Nepal started their livelihood there. A few Nepalgunj territories near the Indian border are still called Shikhhanpurwa, Jamunaha and Bankatwa.<ref name="State of neglet, the Kathmandu post"/> | ||
==Gurdwaras== | ==Gurdwaras == | ||
* Kupondole, Kathmandu | * Kupondole, Kathmandu | ||
* Butwal, Rupandehi | * Butwal, Rupandehi | ||