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Mahendra of Nepal

1920 - 1972

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Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (Nepali: महेन्द्र वीर विक्रम शाह देव; 11 June 1920 – 31 January 1972) was King of Nepal from 13 March 1955 until his death in 1972, which was due to a heart attack, as told in an interview by his personal physician Dr. Mrigendra Raj Pandey. Following the 1960 coup d'état, he established the party-less Panchayat system, which governed the country for 28 years until the introduction of multi-party democracy in 1990. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mahendra of Nepal has received more than 923,740 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Mahendra of Nepal is the 10,188th most popular politician (up from 10,489th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Nepal (up from 21st in 2019) and the 10th most popular Nepalese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mahendra of Nepal ranks 10,188 out of 19,576. Before him are Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg, Alexander I of Georgia, Sancho, Count of Provence, Leonel Fernández, Qu Qiubai, and Ali Nasir Muhammad. After him are Yekuno Amlak, Jamil Mahuad, Tulayha, Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Nicholas II Garai, and Paul Carell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Mahendra of Nepal ranks 178. Before him are Thomas Gold, Fons Rademakers, Knut Nordahl, Ronald Speirs, Vlastimil Brodský, and Anselmo Duarte. After him are Georg Ots, C. R. Rao, James Doohan, Georges Marchais, Celia Sánchez, and Harold Sakata. Among people deceased in 1972, Mahendra of Nepal ranks 102. Before him are Prince William of Gloucester, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Violette Leduc, Walter Jackson Freeman II, Lee Morgan, and František Čáp. After him are Meena Kumari, Vladimir Durković, Paul Grüninger, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Ralph Craig, and Oleksandr Korniychuk.

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In Nepal

Among people born in Nepal, Mahendra of Nepal ranks 20 out of 59. Before him are Janaka (null), Bidhya Devi Bhandari (1961), Anuruddha (-450), Ram Chandra Poudel (1944), Suman Pokhrel (1967), and Pushpa Kamal Dahal (1954). After him are Tribhuvan of Nepal (1906), Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909), Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (1980), Araniko (1244), Sher Bahadur Deuba (1946), and Bhimsen Thapa (1775).

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Among POLITICIANS In Nepal

Among politicians born in Nepal, Mahendra of Nepal ranks 10. Before him are Birendra of Nepal (1945), Gyanendra of Nepal (1947), Ram Baran Yadav (1948), Bidhya Devi Bhandari (1961), Ram Chandra Poudel (1944), and Pushpa Kamal Dahal (1954). After him are Tribhuvan of Nepal (1906), Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (1980), Sher Bahadur Deuba (1946), Bhimsen Thapa (1775), Jung Bahadur Rana (1817), and Ashtavakra (null).

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