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NATIONAL 5 (Spotlight Weekly)] (1085 words) |
 | Rajendra Bikram Shah, the fifth ruler of the Shah dynasty, ascended the throne in 1816 at the age of three. |
| Trailokya’s son, Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah, became the seventh king and the eighth descendant of the Shah dynasty. |
| The brother of the late King Birendra, Prince Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah — who sat on the throne for a brief period in 1950 — was crowned king on June 4. |
| netcyclo: Nepal: History 4 (8982 words) |
| Jang Bahadur's great-grandfather was an important military leader under Prithvi Narayan Shah in the eighteenth century, and during the war with China (1791-92) his grandfather was also a military leader, who became one of the four chief administrators (kaji) of the Gorkha-Nepalese state. |
| These plots were complicated by the death of King Surendra Bikram Shah in 1881 and the royal accession of Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah (reigned 1881-1911) at the age of six. |
| Prithvi Narayan Shah and his successors had used the older administrative systems of Gorkha and the kingdoms of the Kathmandu Valley to run the central government of a united Nepal that was in theory accountable to the king. |
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