Word: rana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reading: The most important part of this course is the reading. Last year's class felt that most of it was good and also scaled to their ability, but "La Rana Viajera" was considered too advanced in vocabulary for the first year...
...months ago, Nepal's King Tribhubana fled from the despotic rule of his hereditary Prime Minister Rana and took refuge in India (TIME, Nov. 20). Last week King Tribhubana got ready to return to his throne. Prime Minister Rana had agreed to changes in the Himalayan kingdom which his family had bossed for 104 years. Promised reforms: 1) equal representation in the cabinet for the anti-Rana Nepal Congress Party; 2) election of a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution; 3) amnesty for political prisoners. Rana gave in mostly because of pressure from India whose antimonarchist leaders...
Whatever his Rana-enforced limitations, the King is the hero of the anti-Rana Nepal Congress Party, which seeks to 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...
...request of India's Sr1¹1 Nehru, Sr1³3 Rana finally agreed to let the Indian government send in two planes to pick up Sr15 and friends. When they landed at New Delhi, Nehru came to meet the plane and a red carpet was rolled...
Back in Kathmandu, Prime Minister Rana put null grandson, Gyanendra, aged 3, on Nepal's throne. Rebellion against this act broke out here & there, but Rana's government claimed it had things under control...