Ganga Prasad Pradhan ( Newar: गंगा प्रसाद प्रधान; ) was born on July 4, 1851 in

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and was the first ordained Nepali Christian pastor, main translator of the Nepali Bible, co-author of an English-Nepali dictionary and author of children's textbooks. He was born to a wealthy Newari family and taught by Scottish missionaries in

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. He returned to Kathmandu with aims of starting educational institutions for the public, as education was available to only a handful. He was exiled permanently to

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in 1914 by Rana government for preaching. He was also editor of ''Gorkhey Khabar Kagat'' a monthly magazine, from 1901 to his death in 1932.''A History of Indian Literature'': 1800-1910 Page 237 Sisir Kumar Das, Sahitya Akademi - 1991 "Ganga Prasad Pradhan (1853-1932), an Indian Christian who translated the Bible into Nepali in 1876 and several stories for children, established his own press at Darjeeling and started a monthly journal ''Gorkhey Khabar Kagat'' (1901-1932), .."

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