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The Kot massacre (Nepali: कोत पर्व) took place on 14 September 1846 when then Kaji Jang Bahadur Kunwar and his brothers killed about 30-40 civil officials, military officers and palace guards of the Nepalese palace court including the Prime Minister of Nepal and a relative of the King, Chautariya Fateh Jung Shah along with other senior-most ministers and army generals at the ...
The Rana dynasty (Nepali: राणा वंश Sanskrit: [raːɳaː ʋɐ̃ɕɐ], Nepali: [raɳa bʌŋsʌ]) was a Chhetri [note 1] dynasty that [6] imposed authoritarianism in the Kingdom of Nepal from 1846 until 1951, reducing the Shah monarch to a figurehead and making the Prime Minister and other government positions held by the Ranas hereditary.
The rise of the Ranas was heightened by plotting the Kot massacre by Jung Bahadur Rana and his brothers gained power, thus reduced the power of Nepalese monarch to a figurehead, and the position of Prime Minister was made powerful and hereditary. The Rana regime pursued a policy of isolating Nepal from external influences.
Nhuchhe Ratna Tuladhar ( Nepali: न्हुछेरत्न तुलाधर, 1888 – 25 December 1950) was a Nepalese democracy activist who was martyred in the freedom struggle against the Rana regime. [ 1] He lived at Asan Baku Nani, a historical neighborhood in central Kathmandu. His wife's name was Hera Lani Tuladhar .
General. Commander in chief Abhiman Singh Rana Magar (Nepali: अभिमान सिंह राना मगर) was an army General and Minister of Nepal until September 15, 1846, and the first victim of the Kot massacre of 1846. According to a government letter to then-British Resident, Major Lawrence in Kathmandu, 32 Bhardars ( Nobles ...
The Kingdom of Nepal (Nepali: नेपाल अधिराज्य) was a Hindu kingdom in South Asia, formed in 1768 by the expansion of the Gorkha Kingdom, which lasted until 2008 when the kingdom became the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. [7] It was also known as the Gorkha Empire (Nepali: गोरखा अधिराज्य ...
Reverse: Goddess seated on lion, with the legend 𑁊 Li-ccha-va-yah. [3] The Licchavis of Nepal (Nepali: लिच्छवि, also Lichchhavi, Lichavi) was a kingdom which existed in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal from approximately 450 CE to 750 CE. The Licchavi clan originated from a branch of the Licchavis of Vaishali who ruled in the ...
38 acres (15 ha) or 753 ropanis. Design and construction. Architect (s) Benjamin Polk. The Narayanhiti Palace Museum (Nepali: नारायणहिटी दरवार) is a public museum in Kathmandu, Nepal [1] located east of the Kaiser Mahal and next to Thamel. [2] The museum was created in 2008 from the complex of the former ...