Word: rana
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...echoed from the peaks of the Himalayas. The 108,000 inhabitants of Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, knew that the big event was taking place in ornate Singha Durbar Hall. Before the glittering assembly of 35 white-uniformed Nepalese generals, His Highness, the Maharaja Padma Shum Shere Jung Bahadur Rana, Prime Minister and Supreme Commander in Chief of Nepal, and Joseph C. Satterthwaite, President Truman's personal representative, were signing exchange notes which established U.S. diplomatic relations and opened trade. Their watches carefully synchronized, the 73-year-old Maharaja and his aides watched the seconds tick by. The Maharaja...
Events in British India had apparently persuaded the old Maharaja to forsake Nepal's isolation policy. But he was also persuaded by younger members of the Rana family, most of whom were educated in British India. U.S. mission members found that these young Nepalese have clear ideas about what they want to do, are keen to modernize Nepal, but do not want to hurry. Their plan now is to sell a modest amount of jute, linseed, probably drugs and some musk (the perfume-producing sac of the musk deer). In that way, they would create a small dollar balance...
...Nepal has two dynasties, one for kings or maharajadhirajas, and the other for prime ministers or maharajas. The king wields no political power. As a reincarnation of Vishnu, he is chiefly a religious figure. Real power is in the hands of the Rana family, which furnishes the maharajas. The relationship resembles that in old Japan between the Emperor and the Shogun...
...Bhopal's followers was the Maharaj Rana of Dholpur who has saved more animals than Bikaner has shot. Dholpur keeps a big preserve where all animals are safe. He also consults holy men on his prospects of getting a male heir...
Another major upset took place when Mrs. Jack Oakie, onetime Follies showgirl who was judging Afghans, passed over Marion Florsheim's Ch. Rana of Chaman of Royal Irish, who had gone to the finals last year. Thus, when the six group winners padded into the ring for final judging, two favorites were missing. The group finalists included an English sheepdog, an English springer spaniel, an English-bred West Highland white terrier, a silver-grey borzoi (Russian wolfhound), a black poodle, a brown Pomeranian. The two dogs that commanded the fanciers' attention were the Old English sheepdog, Ch. Merriedip...