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Nowadays there are 80 subfamilies of the Rana clan. All of their legitimate sons are automatically appointed major generals on the day they are born. At birth the illegitimate sons of the Ranas become lieutenant colonels. (Some U.S. Army captains see a similarity between American and Nepalese practices in this respect...
Meanwhile, the Kings languished in obscurity. They retained the right to throw barley grains to the people on festival days, and they continued to bear the honorary title Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri,* which is sometimes written Sr15. (The Rana Prime Ministers bear the lesser title...
...public life, even less was known until December 1948, when Loy W. Henderson went to Nepal as the first U.S. diplomatic representative to that kingdom. Prime Minister Rana was somewhat embarrassed to learn that Minister Henderson bore a letter from President Truman addressed to the King, in person. After due deliberation, Rana decided that the privilege of getting letters from Harry Truman be added to barley-throwing and being called Sr15. Accordingly, a great durbar was held, and Minister Henderson handed the King his letter. A TIME correspondent who went in with the U.S. mission noticed that the King seemed...
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...