Field-Marshal Mohan Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, GCB

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, GCIE

Order of the Indian Empire

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, GBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (23 December 1885 - 6 January 1967) was the prime minister

Prime minister

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 and foreign minister

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 of Nepal

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 from 30 April 1948 until 12 November 1951.

He was the last prime minister from the Rana

Rana dynasty

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 family, which had controlled Nepal for more than a century and reduced the monarchy to a figurehead. He was the son of the 5th Rana Prime Minister of Nepal Chandra Shamsher

Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana

Field-Marshal Maharaja Sri Teen Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, , was the fifth Prime Minister of Nepal from the Rana dynasty. He served in this capacity from 27 June 1901, following the deposition of his brother Deva Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, to his death in 1929...

. He became prime minister at a time when the king, Tribhuvan

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  was attempting to assert himself. Tribhuvan wanted to establish a stronger monarchy and some democracy, which Mohan opposed.

In 1950, Mohan Shamsher forced Tribhuvan and his son Mahendra

Mahendra of Nepal

Possibly no heir for the time period of 1911 through 1920. Previous Crown Prince: Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah, from 1906 to 1911....

 to flee to India

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, allowing Mahendra's three-year-old son Gyanendra of Nepal

Gyanendra of Nepal

Gyanendra Shah was the last King of Nepal. During his life, he has held the title of the King twice: first between 1950 and 1951 as a child when his grandfather Tribhuvan was forced into exile in India with the rest of his family; and from 2001 to 2008, following the Nepalese royal massacre.King...

 to become king.

Early in 1951, Tribhuvan and Mahendra returned, became king

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 again, and began to establish their power. By the end of 1951, the king and his allies had triumphed, and Mohan Shamsher and the rest of the Rana family lost power.

Death

On 14 December 1951, Mohan Shamsher went into self-imposed exile in India

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, and died in Bangalore

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 in 1967, aged 81.

Family

His granddaughter, Yasho Rajiya Lakshmi, by his eldest son, married Karan Singh

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, Maharaja

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 of Jammu and Kashmir

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, on 5 March 1956.