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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...
Barley Grains. Nor was she angry with Jung Bahadur. Instead, she assembled all the nobles of Nepal and accused them of plotting to murder her paramour. Obligingly, Jung Bahadur helped her kill 55 nobles and 500 lesser folk. The Queen was so pleased that she made Jung Bahadur Prime Minister. He knew what to do next. Two months later he exiled the King and Queen, and put their minor son on the throne at Kathmandu...
Special Delivery. The present King, Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Tribhubana Bir Bikram Jung Bahadur Shah Bahadur Shum Shere Jung Deva, came to the throne in.ign when he was five. Little is known of him except that he is said to be able to ride two horses at the same time, one foot on each. Also, he married two sisters on the same...
...establish a constitutional monarchy. Recently, leaders of this party moved in from India, stepped up their agitation against the Ranas. When a plot to assassinate the Prime Minister was thwarted, the King asked Prime Minister Rana for permission to leave the country. The present Sr1³, unlike Jung Bahadur Rana, refused to let the King go into exile. The King, with some of his jewels and both of his wives, sneaked into the Indian embassy, claimed the right of asylum...
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...