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MAHARAJA See also: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
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In See also:December he furnished a force of 8000 Gurkhas, which reached See also:Lucknow' on the 1th of See also:
(1900), 13,479, mostly Czech
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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
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There are several old churches
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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
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