Word: rana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only Hindu monarch; of a heart attack; in Bharatpur, Nepal. Though he was a member of Nepal's royal dynasty, Mahendra was kept a palace prisoner for the first 30 years of his life because real power in his country had long since fallen to the aristocratic Rana family. In 1951, Mahendra and his father King Tribhuvan led a popular revolution that ousted the Ranas, and four years later Mahendra succeeded to both the throne and control of the government. He proved to be adept at foreign affairs and kept Nepal in wary nonalignment between its two powerful neighbors...
...Crown Prince Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva, 24. He will not only succeed his father some day as monarch but also, the Nepalese believe, as the reincarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. The prince's bride, and also his second cousin, was Crown Princess Aishwarya Rajya Laxmi Devi Rana, 20, a member of the family that ruled...
...came to $9.5 million-no mean effort for a country whose 10 million people get by on a yearly per capita income of $77. In Katmandu, roads were widened and repaved, street lamps were installed, and Nepalese workmen painted over everything in sight, including the bronze statues of the Rana prime ministers. A new $2 million royal palace was rushed to completion to dazzle an anticipated crush of 3,000 foreign guests. The Nepalese cleared out the shaggiest of the Western hippies, who come to Katmandu to get high on the altitude and cheap hash, and they brought in more...