Nationalists

The Nationalists were a faction existing before the events of Far Cry 4. 
According to Divya Kandala, in 1825, offering money and arms in exchange for the use of their army, the British attempted an invasion of India with Kyrati soldiers on the front lines. When this failed, the Kyrati people turned on the monarchy that sold them out to a foreign power. The Royalists stayed loyal to the Kyrati royal family despite ever increasing tensions and hostilities especially from 1900 onward.
The post-colonial Kyrat economy was dependent on gold mining, but most gold mines were already exhausted in the 1960's as KEO went bankrupt. Economic hardships during the following decades intensified opposition to Kyrat monarchy and fueled the Nationalist cause. 
In 1984, the Nationalists started First Kyrati Civil War against the monarchy and naturally the Royalists fought against them. The Nationalists rapidly advanced across Northern Kyrat, further strengthened by foreign mercenaries and a flood of American-made weapons. 
In 1985, they stormed the Royal Palace and killed the royal family. Mohan Ghale rallied the Royalists to continue fighting, but by 1986 the Nationalists grew too strong for them. 
Then a triad empire led by Pagan Min and Yuma Lau came to Kyrat and allied themselves with them, claiming to desire the coronation of a distant relative of Kyrat's deceased king.
In 1987, the Nationalists were defeated by the combined efforts of the Royalists and triad forces. However, Min suddenly took-over, killing the heir, initiating a purge of the royal family and the Royalists.
After Pagan Min's take-over, the Royalists became Golden Path, some remnants of the Nationalists joined his Royal Army in the wake of Second Kyrati Civil War. 
==Trivia==
*Since Kyrat is inspired by Nepal, the Nationalists are analogous to the Maoists of Nepal in the real life Nepalese Civil War.
*Mohan Ghale's Journal described the Nationalists as "Their ranks are bolstered by foreign criminals and they're armed with American-made weapons".
Category:Far Cry 4 factions