The area of today's Banke District was part of the Terai lands ceded to the British East India Company under the Treaty of Sugauli (1815/1816) after the Anglo-Nepalese War, and remained under British India for 45 years. Under the Nepal-Britain Treaty signed on 1 November 1860 in Kathmandu by Jung Bahadur Rana, the ceded Terai lands - including Kanchanpur, Kailali, Bardiya and Banke - were restored to Nepal in recognition of Nepal's support in suppressing the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny. This restored territory is still known as 'Naya Muluk' (new country). Nepalgunj grew as the administrative and trading center of the region, was expanded into a sub-metropolitan city in January 2015 (2071 Paush 28) by absorbing surrounding VDCs, and Banke is today part of Lumbini Province; Banke National Park was established in 2010 as Nepal's tenth national park.
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