On 2 June 1936, in Kathmandu — at the house of Dharma Bhakta Mathema in Om Bahal — a handful of young men founded the Nepal Praja Parishad (नेपाल प्रजा परिषद), the country's first organized political opposition: Tanka Prasad Acharya as president, Dashrath Chand, Dharma Bhakta Mathema, Jiwan Raj Sharma and Ramhari Sharma. Their program was democracy, and their enemy was 90 years of hereditary rule.२ जुन १९३६ मा काठमाडौंको धर्मभक्त माथेमाको घरमा नेपाल प्रजा परिषद स्थापित भयो — देशको पहिलो संगठित राजनीतिक प्रतिपक्ष।
The conspiracy was betrayed — by Ramji Joshi, for a reward of Rs 5,000. Arrests began 18 October 1940; on 19 January 1941 the sentences came. On 24 January, Shukraraj Shastri (शुक्रराज शास्त्री) was hanged from a tree at Pachali, Teku, and Dharma Bhakta Mathema (धर्मभक्त माथेमा) at midnight at Sifal. On 28 January, Dashrath Chand (दशरथ चन्द) and Gangalal Shrestha (गङ्गालाल श्रेष्ठ) — still a teenager — were shot at Shobha Bhagawati on the banks of the Bishnumati.षड्यन्त्र रामजी जोशीले रु. ५,००० को इनामका लागि उजागर गरे। १९ जनवरी १९४१ मा फैसला आयो; २४ जनवरीलाई शुक्रराज शास्त्री पाचली-टेकुमा झुण्ड्याइए र धर्मभक्त माथेमा सिफलमा; २८ जनवरीलाई दशरथ चन्द र गङ्गालाल श्रेष्ठ शोभाभगवतीमा गोली लाग्यो।
The Movement Grows Abroadभारतमा आन्दोलन फस्टायो
The movement emigrated to India. The Biratnagar jute mill strike of 4 March 1947 — led by Girija Prasad Koirala and joined by B.P. Koirala on 9 March — produced mass arrests, a 27-day hunger strike and Gandhi's intercession. B.P. Koirala (विश्वेश्वरप्रसाद कोइराला) organized the Nepali National Congress in 1947, which became the Nepali Congress in 1950. Pushpa Lal Shrestha, Gangalal's brother, founded the Communist Party of Nepal in 1949. The Rana regime's own modernization — schools, its own first college — had produced its own gravediggers.आन्दोलन भारत गयो। ४ मार्च १९४७ को बिराटनगर जुट मिलको हड्ताल, बी.पी. कोइरालाको नेपाली राष्ट्रिय काङ्ग्रेस, पुष्पलाल श्रेष्ठको नेपाल कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी (१९४९) — राणा शासनकै आधुनिकीकरणले नै उनीहरूकै शव-खन्ने जन्मायो।
1950–51: The Revolutionसात सालको क्रान्ति
The armed revolution (सात सालको क्रान्ति) began in November 1950 — the Nepali Congress Mukti Sena seized district towns across the Terai and hills. In Kathmandu, King Tribhuvan (त्रिभुवन) — who had watched four martyrs die in silence — took refuge in the Indian Embassy on 6 November 1950 and flew to Delhi, refusing the Ranas' demand that he abdicate. The Ranas crowned his four-year-old grandson Gyanendra in his place; India refused to recognize the arrangement.सात सालको क्रान्ति नोभेम्बर १९५० मा सुरु भयो — काङ्ग्रेसको मुक्ति सेनाले जिल्लाहरू लियो; राजा त्रिभुवन ६ नोभेम्बर १९५० मा भारतीय दूतावासमा आश्रय लिएर दिल्ली गए, राज्यपरित्याग गर्न अस्वीकार गरे। राणाहरूले झोलाहा राजा घोषित गरे — भारतले अस्वीकार्यो।
The Delhi Accord — February 1951दिल्ली सम्झौता — फेब्रुअरी १९५१
Brokered by India, the Delhi Accord (दिल्ली सम्झौता) of early February 1951 ended the hereditary premiership: a Rana–Congress coalition cabinet under King Tribhuvan, and a promise of elections to a Constituent Assembly. Tribhuvan returned on 15 February; on 18 February 1951 — still celebrated as Democracy Day (प्रजातन्त्र दिवस) — the king proclaimed the end of the 104-year regime. B.P. Koirala took the Home portfolio on 21 February.दिल्ली सम्झौताले वंशानुगत प्रधानमन्त्री-पद अन्त्य गर्यो। त्रिभुवन १५ फेब्रुअरी १९५१ मा फर्के; १८ फेब्रुअरी — आजको प्रजातन्त्र दिवस — राणा शासन समाप्त घोषित भयो।