Researchers point out that due to lasting feudalism, aristocracy, social inequality and slow development within the district, there was a growing dissatisfaction of the larger public towards the nobles. As a result, eastern Rukum became some of the earliest communist stronghold of the country during the 20th century. Not surprisingly, it also became the heartland of Nepalese Civil War (Maoist revolution) against land inequality, ethnic inequality, feudalism and aristocracy from 1996 till 2006, ultimately resulting in the end of 240 year old Monarchy and turning of the country into a democratic Federal republic.