The Nixon administration’s 1969-1974 Nepal file

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All kinds of cool stuff in here, from the US government’s assessment of the new Nepali ambassador (“Although essentially a democrat, he has come to accept the need for increasing measures of discipline and authoritarianism to overcome the enormous problems presented by the challenge of modernization in Nepal”) to the disarming of the Khampas to drug smuggling to Indian foreign policy in Nepal (“WE ASSUME THAT INDIAN PREFERENCE WOULD BE FOR LIBERALIZED REGIME IN NEPAL IN WHICH NCP HAD SHARE OF POWER AND WHICH WOULD THEORETICALLY AT LEAST BE LESS OBSESSIVELY PREOCCUPIED WITH INDIA, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME MORE RESPONSIVE TO GOI DESIDERATA. IN OUR VIEW, HOWEVER, THIS PREFERENCE FALLS FAR SHORT OF DEFINITIVE COMMITMfNT TO OVERTHROW OF CURRENT REGIME OR TO INSTIGATION 0F COUP OR lNSURRECTION WE WOULD APPRECIATE HAVING EMBASSY DELHI’S VIEWS OF INDIAN ASSESSMENT OF INTERNAL SITUATION IN NEPAL” to the possibilities of revolt against the king. Go check it out.