Word: bahadur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reigning monarch at that time was Rajendra Bikram Sahi, a blue-blooded Rajput (Hindu warrior caste) and a descendant of Vishnu the Lifesaver. For all that, the King was nuttier than a pecan tree in October. He and the Queen persuaded one of their generals, Jung Bahadur Rana, to murder their Prime Minister, who happened to be Jung Bahadur's uncle. Then Jung Bahadur helped the King murder the Queen's lover. She was put out about this, but not at the King, who seems to have beaten the rap on an insanity plea...
While New Delhi spoke, Nepal's Prime Minister Maharaja Mohun Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, 64, a devout feudalist,*was journeying from the little Himalayan kingdom (6,000,000 pop.; 54,000 sq. mi.) to republican India. It took him 15 days by foot, horseback and palanquin over windswept ranges to reach an Indian railhead. A special train bore him on to New Delhi, where Nehru waited. In black cap and brown leather churidar, Rana stepped down onto a red carpet. He put his right foot first, to insure an auspicious beginning and end for his visit. Nehru welcomed...