राणा शासन
The Rana Regime
१०४ वर्षको वंशीय तानाशाही — र उनीहरूविरुद्ध लड्ने शहीदहरू
Jung Bahadur Rana seized power in the Kot Massacre of 1846 and made the premiership a family inheritance while the Shah kings became caged figureheads. Isolation, splendour and repression defined the era — until the Four Martyrs and the revolution of 1951 brought it down.
The Kot Parva: Blood in the Palace Armory
In a single courtyard, around thirty to forty of Nepal's top nobles were butchered — and Jung Bahadur Rana walked out with the country. The Shah king would spend the next 104 years under house arrest.
A Century of the Shumshers
The Shumsher branch seized power in 1885 and ruled for sixty-six years: a paper in 1901, sati abolished, slavery abolished, a 1,200-room palace, a treaty of independence in 1923 — and a 1934 earthquake that shook the regime's foundations.
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The Four Martyrs and the Fall of the Ranas
Four young men went to the gallows in January 1941 for the crime of wanting democracy. A decade later, their cause had an army, a king on its side, and the Delhi Accord in hand.