"[1] Thapa Magar was a local leader in Bungkot, Gorkha District, and led a rebellion against the authority of Jung Bahadur Rana.

The dying general revealed the assassin's name, and Jung Bahadur Rana subsequently orchestrated the elimination of numerous nobles and political figures, including Lakhan Thapa Magar, to secure his authority.

[2] In the aftermath of the Rana takeover, Lakhan Thapa Magar mobilized local youths and former military personnel to oppose the government.

Historian and former Director General of Nepal Government's Department of Archaeology, Janak Lal Sharma, wrote that Jung Bahadur Rana's rule made a revolution inevitable.

[5] Historian Janak Lal Sharma, a former Director General of Nepal's Department of Archaeology, argued that the oppressive rule of Jung Bahadur Rana made rebellion inevitable.