It is much easier to murder than settle differences peacefully.
There is also the issue of wanting power, if some can wipe out a group of people easily, then other races/creeds/nationalities will likely fall into line sooner than later. Hitler and Stalin did this prior, during, and post WW2.
<span>The Declaration of Independence</span>
State Representation is based off the population of the state, since slaves weren't technically citizens, they were not counted in deciding how many representatives a state had. Slaves were a large majority of the population in the south. The south thought they were under represented and wanted slaves to be counted so representation was fair in their eyes.
kathmandu was a single political unit during the early period of of malla rule but after the end of the yakshya malla it was divided into three states,namely kantipur ,patan and Bhadgaon. similarly , there were kiranti kingdoms in the east and tirhut in the south.