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MAHARAJA SIR JUNG BAHADUR (1816-1877)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 556 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:JUNG BAHADUR (1816-1877)  , See also:prime See also:minister of See also:Nepal, was a See also:grand-See also:nephew of Bhim sena Thapa (Bhim sen Thappa), the famous military minister of Nepal, who from 1804 to 1839 was de facto ruler of the See also:state under the rani Tripuri and her successor . Bhimsena's supremacy was threatened by the Kala Pandry, and many of his relations, including See also:Jung Bahadur, went into See also:exile in 1838, thus escaping the cruel See also:fate which overtook Bhimsena in the following See also:year . The Pandry leaders, who then reverted to See also:power, were in turn assassinated in 1843, and Matabar Singh, See also:uncle of Jung Bahadur, was created prime minister . He appointed his nephew See also:general and See also:chief See also:judge, but shortly afterwards he was himself put to See also:death . Fateh Jung thereon formed a See also:ministry, of which Jung Bahadur was made military member . In the following year, 1846, a See also:quarrel was fomented, in which Fateh Jung and See also:thirty-two other chiefs were assassinated, and the rani appointed Jung Bahadur See also:sole minister . The rani quickly changed her mind, and planned the death of her new minister, who at once appealed to the maharaja . But the See also:plot failed . The See also:raja and the rani wisely sought safety in See also:India, and Jung Bahadur firmly established his own position by the removal of all dangerous rivals . He succeeded so well that in See also:January 1850 he was able to leave for a visit to See also:England, from, which he did not return to Nepal until the 6th of See also:February 1851 . On his return, and frequently on subsequent See also:dates, he frustrated conspiracies for his assassination . The reform of the penal See also:code, and a desultory See also:war with See also:Tibet, occupied his See also:attention until See also:news of the See also:Indian See also:Mutiny reached Nepal .

Jung Bahadur resisted all overtures from the rebels, and sent a See also:

column to Gorakpur in See also:July 1857 . In See also:December he furnished a force of 8000 Gurkhas, which reached See also:Lucknow' on the 1th of See also:March 1858, and took See also:part in the See also:siege . The moral support of the Nepalese was more valuable even than the military services rendered by them . Jung Bahadur was made a G.C.B., and a See also:tract of See also:country annexed in 1815 was restored to Nepal . Various frontier disputes were settled, and in 1875 See also:Sir Jung Bahadur was on his way to England when he had a fall from his See also:horse in Bombay and returned See also:home . He received a visit from the See also:Prince of See also:Wales in 1876 . On the 25th of February 1877 he died, having reached the See also:age of sixty-one . Three of his widows immolated themselves on his funeral pyre . (W . L.-W.) JUNG-See also:BUNZLAU (See also:Czech, Mladd Boleslav), a See also:town of Bohemia, 44 M . N.N.E. of See also:Prague by See also:rail . Pop .

(1900), 13,479, mostly Czech . The town contains several old buildings of See also:

historical See also:interest, notably the See also:castle, built towards the end of the See also:roth See also:century, and now used as See also:barracks . There are several old churches . In that of St Maria the celebrated See also:bishop of the Bohemian brethren, Johann See also:August, was buried in 1595; but his See also:tomb was destroyed in 1621 . The See also:church of St See also:Bonaventura with the See also:convent, originally belonging to the friars See also:minor and later to the Bohemian brethren, is now a Piaristic See also:college . The church of St See also:Wenceslaus, once a convent of the brotherhood, is now used for military stores . Jung-Bunzlau was built in 995, under Boleslaus II., as the seat of a gaugraf or royal See also:count . See also:Early in the 13th century it was given the privileges of a town and pledged to the lords of Michalovic . In the Hussite See also:wars Jung-Bunzlau adhered to the Taborites and became later the See also:metropolis of the Bohemian Brethren . In 1595 Bohuslav of Lobkovic sold his rights as over-See also:lord to the town, which was made a royal See also:city by See also:Rudolf II . During the Thirty Years' War it was twice burned, in 1631 by the imperialists, and in 1640 by the Swedes .

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