PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founders
were Khancha Khand and Mincha Khand. Khancha Khand, the elder brother
stayed
on and ruled Bhirkot, the lineage of the younger brother Mincha Khand,
are the ancestors of the current ruling family of Nepal. Rulers
were...
- Raja CHAKRAPATI KHAND, his state was annexed in 1785,
though he recieved an other annexed
principality as a reward for his service to the King of Nepal.
- Raja TARAK BAHADUR SHAH 1912/2001, born about 1903, last
Raja of
Bhirkot,
Chairman of the Public Service Commission, married and had issue, two
sons
and two daughters. He died 6th March 2001 at Kalimati, aged 98.
- Raja RISHIKESH SHAH (qv)
- Rajkumar Dr. Narayan Keshary Shah, married 1965, Rani
Bhindashwari
Malla,
born 13th February 1935, daughter of Sri Padma Sundar Malla of Bhatgaon,
and has issue.
- Shri Anil Keshary Shah, General Manager of Nabil Bank,
Nepal, former
Chief
Operating Officer Grindlay's Bank, Nepal, married 1969, Rani Rati Rajya
Lakshmi Devi, born 1947, daughter of Shri Rukma Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana
and Rani Ishori Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah, and has issue.
- Aarya Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah
- Shri Ujjal Keshary Shah, Senior Programmer/Analyst in
Citicorp
(Citibank),
married Rani Samantha Rajya Laxmi Rana, daughter of late Shri Tribhuwan
Pratap Jung Bahadur Rana and Rani Sachu Rajya Laxmi Devi of Nepal.
- Rani Komal Rajya Laxmi Devi, married Maj.-General
Maharajkumar Meen
Shumsher
Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal, and had
issue.
-
 Raja RISHIKESH
SHAH 2001/2002, born 1925, recieved post graduate degrees in English
and
political science from Patna and Allahabad universities, leading to a
lectureship
at Trichandra College, Kathmandu in 1945, joined the Nepal Democratic
Congress,
and later the Nepali National Congress, becoming its general secretary,
before moving to the Nepali Congress and the United Front, opposition
leader
in Nepal's first (nominated) parliament in 1953, left for the USA where
he spent approximately five years, including serving as Nepal's very
first
permanent representative to the United Nations, he was also Nepal's
Ambassador
to the US for a short time, in 1961, he was elected by the UN General
Assembly
as chairman of the international commission to probe into the death of
the UN General Secretary, returning to Nepal, he served for a short
period
of time as finance minister and foreign minister. In 1962, he chaired
the
Constitution Drafting Committee. He contested and won a seat to the
Rashtriya
Panchayat, in the graduates' constituency twice in the years 1967/71,
he
served as president of the Nepal Council of World Affairs, he became
founding
chairman of the Nepal Wildlife Conservation, later he also founded the
Human Rights Organisation of Nepal (HURON), at various times, he was
Visiting
Professor, Jawarharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Regents' Professor,
University of Berkeley, California; and Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson
International
Centre for Scholars and the East-West Center, Honolulu, author of
"Heroes
and Builders of Nepal, Nepali Politics: Retrospect and Prospect and
Politics
in Nepal, 1980-1991", married and had issue. He died 13th November 2002
aged 77 at Chandol.
- Raja PRAKASH SHAH (see above)
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