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Visit of Jung Bahadur Rana to Europe
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Visit of Jung Bahadur Rana to Europe (Afro-Eurasia)
In 1850, Jung Bahadur Rana visited Europe with the intention of estimating the military power of European countries. He was the first high-ranking person from South Asia to pay such a visit to European countries, due to which he gained a lot of media attention in Europe. As a result of his visit, Jung Bahadur was able to gain international recognition for Nepal as a sovereign nation.[1]
Travel from Nepal to England
[edit]The journey to Europe started on 4 Magh 1906 BS (January, 1850) from Kathmandu. They took the route of Chisapani to cross the border. On the way, Jung Bahadur captured four elephants, as well as killing four tigers and some deer.[2] From Chisapani, they reached Kadarawana Gadhi where Jung Bahadur gave gifts to the local peasants. H
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The Kunwars belonged to one of the five leading aristocratic families who served the Rajas of Gorkha. They retained their premier position in the ruling hierarchy as the nation-state took shape. Apart from the Shahs and the Basnets, the Pandes, Thapas and the Kunwars formed the bulk of the bhardars, and were joined by the high priests, the purohits, to form eller gestalt the Bhardari Sabha, the Council of Nobles, a powerful body that influenced crucial decisions of the state. Acts of förebildlig service to the king and the country earned them hereditary titles, rich rewards and extensive properties, known as the jagir. Their clout in governance was further cemented by matrimonial alliances forged between them.
This may be the right place to outline the different layers of Nepalese society as generally viewed during the Rana regime. If in ancient Rome people were divided into Patricians and Plebians, there were several layers of socio-political strata in Nepal during the Rana regime. Though dev
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Bureaucrat Sushil Jang Bahadur Rana has recently come out with an interesting book. The book reveals the life of his great-grandfather, General Juddha Jang, a prominent but least talked about son of Jang Bahadur Rana, founder of the century-old Rana regime and second longest-serving Prime Minister in Nepal’s history.
The book, entitled Jarnel Juddha Jang ra Uhanka Santatiharu, which can roughly be translated as General Juddha Jang and his Descendants, though small in size, seems to be the output of a very hard and tenacious job involving sustained research that the author has carried out for many years. Besides good writing, the well-documented book even has valuable tables, charts, bibliography, appendices and photographs of the family.
The book with an attractive portrait of General Juddha Jang, who passed away at 52 more than a hundred years ago, on the front cover has eight chapters. Krishna Jang Rana, who normally wrote as Dr Rana Krishna Jang, during his long innings