2 The Major Historical Codes and Documents (the eleven-mile ladder)

Code/DocumentYear (BS)The contributionThiti of Ram Shah17th c.Gorkha's justice-maxims; the dharma-king's law; the popular- legitimacy traditionNyayabikasini19th c.The Rana-era digest: the code's-and-custom's juristic explanation — the legal literature's beginningMuluki Ain 1910 (1854)1910The first national code: one text for all (caste-stratified): the land, family, crime-and-contract chapters; the officials' discipline; the legal- uniformity revolutionNepal Sarkarko Baidhanik Kanoon2004 (1948)The Rana twilight's constitutional gesture: the advisory assembly; written constitutionalism's first (limited) textNepal Antarim Shashan Bidhan2007 (1951)The revolution's interim: the constitutional monarchy's installation; the CA promise (deferred)Nepal Adhirajyako Sambidhan2015 (1959)The first democratic constitution: FRs; the elected parliament; the crown's fatal reserve powersNepalko Sambidhan2019 (1962)The Panchayat's guided democracy: the kingship's supremacy; duties-and-directives without justiciable rightsMuluki Ain 2020 (1963)2020The great re-codification: the caste-hierarchy's formal abolition (the muluki panji's end); the modernized family-and-property chapters; the century's operative code (till 2074/75)Nepal Adhirajyako Sambidhan 20472047 (1990)The Jana Andolan's settlement: multi-party democracy + constitutional monarchy; the FRs-and-writ era's baseNepalko Antarim Sambidhan2063 (2007)The interim: the CA's promise; the monarchy's suspension-and-end; the republic's gestationThe Constitution of Nepal2072 (2015)The current order: the federal democratic republic; the CA-made constitution (Constitutional Law-II's Unit 1 full treatment) The reading of the ladder (the exam's essay): the codification's continuity (the Ain tradition: 1910 → 2020 → 2074) alongside the constitutionalism's struggle (the 2004–2072 documents' ladder: each regime's charter); the society's law maturing from the thiti-and-custom, through the code's uniformity, to…