7.3 Interim Government of Nepal Act, 1951 (2007 BS)

The Delhi Compromise's text — the Rana–King–Congress tripartite settlement after the 1951 armed revolution (the overthrow of the Rana system). Its contributions: constitutional monarchy for the first time (the crown's legitimacy re-founded on a settlement, not divinity); an interim legislature and council of ministers sharing power between the revolution's forces and the palace; and — the decade's broken thread — the promise of a constituent assembly, made and deferred. The 1951–59 decade became the struggle over that promise: the king's successive advisory and advisory-plus assemblies refusing to concede an elected constitution-maker.