Before the reunification of Nepal by Prithvi Narayan Shah, the area was part of the Doti Kingdom. After the Anglo-Nepalese War (1814-1816), Nepal lost the territory to the East India Company under the territorial concessions of the Sugauli Treaty. The treaty of 1860 restored the land to Nepal along with Kailali, Banke and Bardiya, and the district dates its establishment to 1860. Its first headquarters was at Belauri, and the current headquarters at Mahendranagar was declared in 2019 B.S. After Nepal became a republic in 2008, Mahendranagar municipality was renamed Bhimdatta in honour of the revolutionary farmer leader Bhimdatta Panta (1926-1953).
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