Never having been subject to British rule, Nepal's historical trajectory has been quite different from its South Asian neighbours in many respects.
Yet, geography ensured that Nepalis themselves could not remain unaffected by developments in colonial India, including one of its defining features - the dispersal of South Asians across the globe.
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