7 B. Baise and Chaubise administration

• The raja advised by family and hereditary chiefs (kaji, bharadar); villages under mukhiya/ khiyap headmen (far-west) responsible for revenue-collection and local order; • Military levies of each state: small but battle-hardened hill companies — the schools in which Gorkha's officers trained; • Fort-and-pass control as the essence of state security (kot, garhi); • A lively diplomacy of alliance, marriage and treachery between the 46 states — the system Prithvi Narayan Shah mastered.