Word: rana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Considering the way the Rana family of Nepal came to power 104 years ago, it was scarcely surprising last week to find that the Ranas had won another match against Nepal's royal family. Watching their beaten King fly away in an Indian government airplane, the good people of Kathmandu could shake their turbaned heads and murmur the Nepalese equivalent for: "They never come back...
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...
...week-long round of mutual expressions of good will followed the pageantry of welcome. The betrothal of Rana's granddaughter to a Kashmiri prince was announced. Before going home, the guest of honor will receive a diamond-studded sword from India's Defense Minister Sardar Baldev Singh-an earnest of more up-to-date military aid to come...