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Rana (Sri Teen Chandra Shumsher Jung Bahadur, 1863-1929). Signed full-length portrait..., * Rana (Sri Teen Chandra Shumsher Jung Bahadur, 1863-1929), Prime Minister and Maharajah of Nepal, 1901-1929. Signed full-length photographic studio portrait in ceremonial dress, 1906, gelatin silver print, signed and dated in blue fountain pen ink lower right, ‘Chandra Shumsher Shree, 19/7/06’, 36 x 21.5 cm, original card mount QTY: (1) NOTE: Field-Marshal His Highness Maharaja Sri Teen Chandra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana served as Prime Minister from 1901 until his death in 1929, after he successfully deposed his liberal and reformist brother Dev Shamsher. Although generally perceived as despotic and conservative, he is credited with several reforms, including the abolition of slavery and establishing the Nepal-Britain Treaty of 1923, which recognised Nepal as an independent nation and an ally of Britain.