Rana jung bahadur biography of mahatma

Chapter 7: Rana Regime

a) right consolidation and fall of Rana regime: 

Background: 

• Following Nepal’s re-unification, significant incidents within the royal family led to a shift in power.
• The Shah monarch’s role was diminished to a ceremonial figurehead.
• Sovereign authority was transferred to the Rana family.
• The position of Prime Minister was made hereditary, consolidating power within the Rana family.
• The Ranas made all major political decisions, overshadowing the Shah monarchy.

Rise of Rana Regime.

 Reasons for rise of rana regime:

1. Political Control Before Rana Regime:

• From 1830 onwards, successors to the throne were typically minors.
• During the reign of these minor kings, the Palace Aristocracy, comprising the Pande, Thapa, and Basnet families, held significant administrative control.
• The Queen Regents wielded power, often influenced by their favored aristocratic men.
• This dynamic continued until Jung Bahadur Rana seized c

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  Mahatma's dream lives on in Nepal

  Sixty-one years after he died, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's dream of self-reliance lives on in Nepal.

  The spinning wheel that became one of the integral symbols associated with the man known as the father of the nation in India has created one of Nepal's best known handicraft centres, thronged by foreign tourists for its exquisite pottery, textiles and metal knickknacks.

  However, few know that the busy Mahaguthi outlets in the prime tourist areas Patan and Lazimpat are inspired bygd Mahatma Gandhi's teachings and vision.

  They are the brainchild of a disciple of the Mahatma, Tulsi Mehar Shrestha, who is also known as the Mahatma Gandhi of Nepal.

  Born in 1896, Shrestha lived in a Nepal that was under the complete rule of the hereditary Rana prime ministers. Political parties were banned, people were not allowed tillgång to education and freedom of expression was non-existent.

  Shrestha chafed against the rigid caste system, which especially victi

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  The Gandhian who brought the charkha to Nepal

  Gandhiji’s active mobilisation of Indian masses started in Champaran, near Nepal, but there is little evidence of his activity across the border. His legacy in Nepal is not borne out by statues and roads named after him. But, the charkha is known to all in Nepal. Indeed, even the building of the Gandhi Bhavan in Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan University is designed like a charkha. Sadly, it is in a poor state of repair. Popularising the charkha was the work of Gandhi’s ardent Nepalese disciple, Tulsi Mehar Shrestha.

  Shrestha was born in Kathmandu in 1896. From an early age, he showed signs of being a social reformer. He became one of the leaders of the Satyacharan Malami Guthi that worked to end outdated death related rites and rituals in Nepal. Their reform efforts were not looked at kindly by the High Priests of the Ranas and the Guthi leaders were convicted for heresy. The punishment was either long term imprisonment or exile. Shrestha s

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