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Prithvi Narayan Shah was born prematurely on 7 January 1723 as the first child of Nara Bhupal Shah and Kaushalyavati Devi in the Gorkha Palace. [9] [10] Idols of PrithviNarayan Shah with his two wives. Prince Prithvi Narayan Shah's education began at age five through the appropriate ceremony.
Prince Bahadur Shah (Nepali: बहादुर शाह) was the youngest son of King Prithvi Narayan Shah of modern Nepal.He became the regent of Nepal for a brief period after the death of his predecessor Queen Rajendra Laxmi and accelerated his father's campaign for the conquest of the small and scattered Hindu nations of the Himalayas into modern-day Nepal.
He was the eldest son of Prithvi Narayan Shah, the king who started the unification of Nepal. He became king at the age of 24 in 1775. Pratap Singh Shah ruled for only 36 months, up to 1777, and died of smallpox at the age of 26. He was succeeded by his two-year-old son Rana Bahadur Shah.
Upon Prithvi Narayan's death, his son Pratap Singh Shah was appointed as the king. [8] He died prematurely at the age of 26 in 1777; on the same day, his young son, Rana Bahadur Shah, became king with his mother, Queen Rajendra, and later his uncle, Bahadur Shah, as regent.
Prithvi Narayan Shah पृथ्वी नारायण शाह (1723–1775) 25 September 1768 11 January 1775 6 years, 108 days Shah: King of the Gorkha Kingdom since 1743 2 Pratap Singh Shah प्रताप सिंह शाह (1751–1777) 11 January 1775 17 November 1777 2 years, 310 days Shah: Son of Prithvi Narayan Shah 3
From 1736, the Gorkhalis engaged in a campaign of expansion begun by King Nara Bhupal Shah, which was continued by his son, King Prithvi Narayan Shah and grandson Prince Bahadur Shah. Over the years, they conquered huge tracts of land to the east and west of Gorkha. [11] [12]
King Prithvi Narayan Shah, the last king of Gorkha Kingdom (1743–1768) and the first Shah king of Nepal (1768–1775) In 1743, Prithvi Narayan Shah became the ruler of Gorkha. He declared war on other principalities, defeating them one by one. In September 1768, he established the unified kingdom of Gorkha.
His son Prithvi Narayan Shah became king in 1742 and resumed the campaign. [8] [9] As Shah knew he would not be able to take the valley by force, he decided to impose an embargo with a view to starve it. His forces occupied strategic passes in the surrounding hills, and strangled the vibrant trade between Tibet and India that passed through the ...