Dhir Shumsher Rana

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Dhir Shumsher Kunwar (1828 – 1884 Kathmandu), after 1848 known as Dhir Shumsher Kunwar Ranaji (Nepali: धीर शम्शेर कुँवर राणाजी) or Dhir Shumsher Jang Kunwar Ranaji or shortly Dhir Shumsher Rana posthumously known as Dhir Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana, was a Nepalese politician, army general, and minister of state. He served as the Commander-In-Chief of the Nepalese Army from 1879 to 1884. He was born in Kunwar family as the youngest son of Kaji Bal Narsingh Kunwar and Ganesh Kumari Thapa, daughter of Kaji Nain Singh Thapa of Thapa dynasty. Dhir Shumsher was the youngest brother of Jang Bahadur Kunwar Ranaji, who rose to premiership of Nepal after the murders of influential persons – Mathabarsingh Thapa and Gagan Singh Bhandari and the Kot Massacre. Dhir was personally involved in the massacre, protecting his nearly slaughtered brother Krishna Bahadur Kunwar Rana. Dhir became military colonel after the incident. He was in the entourage of Jung Bahadur's visit of Europe in the early 1850s....

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