Kamalamai

Kamalamai (former name: Sindhulimadi, Nepali: सिन्धुलीमाडी ) is a city and administrative headquarters of the district Sindhuli in the Janakpur Zone in Nepal. In the 2011 census it had 39 413 inhabitants.

The town lies in the valley of Sindhuli. The plane was in 1767 the scene of a battle between the Kingdom of Gorkha ( former name of Nepal) under Prithvi Narayan Shah and the British under Captain Kinloch. The British were vormarschiert from India to Nepal and met with fierce resistance from Sindhuli established the reputation of the Gurkhas. Ruins of a fortress are still on a mountain ridge at 1450 m altitude, some 10 km north-east of Kamalamai (NS = 27/16/43 | EW = 85/57/24 ).

Kamalamai situated on the new road, the B.P. Koirala Rajmarg that connects the Kathmandu Valley to the south-eastern Terai.