KING OF NEPAL DEPOSED
NEW DELHI. November' 7. The Nepalese Embassy in New Delhi announced to-night that the King of Nepal had left his palace ai Katmandu and taken refuge in the Indian Embassy, and that his three-year-old grandson had been proclaimed ruler. The announcement said that the King was acconipahicd by his family, including the Crown Prince and the Crown Prince's eldest son. An urgently summoned session of Parliament declared unanimously that the members of the Royal Family who left the palace had forfeited their right to the throne. Nepal, the home of the Gurkhas in the remote depths of the Himalayas, is the only surviving Hindu kingdom in the world. The King is a figurehead only. The country is administered by the Maharajah Sir Munon Shumshere Jun Bahabar Rana, who is also the hereditary Prime Minister and Supreme Commander-in-chief. Katmandu, the Capital, is the nearest bie city to Mount Evecest. Nepal, the northern frontier of which borders on Tibet, is about 55.000 square miles in area, with a population of nearly 6,000.000. A treaty of friendship between Britain and Nepal was signed in the Nepalese capital last month. , T l ?® King, it is stated, is anxious 19 live in India since an attempt was made on his life last month.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26265, 9 November 1950, Page 7
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