Krishna Bahadur Kunwar after 1848 CE known as, Krishna Bahadur Kunwar Rana ( ne, कृष्ण बहादुर कुँवर राणा) was the Nepalese politician, administrator, military general and minister of state. He served as the acting

Prime Minister of Nepal The Prime Minister of Nepal ( ne, नेपालको प्रधानमन्त्री) is the head of government of Nepal. The Prime Minister is the head of the Council of Ministers of Nepal and the chief adviser to the President of N ...

upon the demise of his elder brother

Bam Bahadur Kunwar Bam Bahadur Kunwar Rana (1818–1857; ne, बम बहादुर कुँवर राणा) was the 9th Prime Minister of the government of Nepal. He was brother of Jung Bahadur Rana Maharaja Jung Bahadur Kunwar Ranaji, (born Bir Narsin ...

from 25 May 1857 to 28 June 1857. He also served as the

Commander-In-Chief of the Nepalese Army The Chief of the Nepalese Army (or Gorkhali Army) ( ne, नेपाली सेनाको प्रधानसेनापति) is the military position of army head of the Nepalese Army, initially known as ''Gorkhali Army''. The Chief of th ...

between 1857 and 1862.

Personal life

He was born as son of

Bal Narsingh Kunwar Bal Narsingh Kunwar or Balanarsingh Kanwar ( ne, बालनरसिंह कुँवर; 2 February 1783 - 24 December 1841) posthumously referred as Bal Narsingh Kunwar Rana was a Kaji, military officer and governor in the Kingdom of Ne ...

and Ganesh Kumari Thapa, daughter of Kaji

Nain Singh Thapa Nain Singh Thapa or Nayan Singh Thapa ( ne, नैनसिंह थापा/नयनसिंह थापा) (died late 1806 or early 1807) was a Nepalese Kaji (minister) and a military general. He died in the offensive campaign of Kangra f ...

of the politically affluent

Thapa family Thapa dynasty or Thapa noble family ( ne, थापा वंश/थापा काजी खलक ) was a Kshatriya political family that handled Nepali administration affairs between 1806 and 1837 A.D. and 1843 to 1845 A.D. as Mukh ...

. He was the younger brother of

Jung Bahadur Kunwar Rana Maharaja Jung Bahadur Kunwar Ranaji, (born Bir Narsingh Kunwar ( ne, वीर नरसिंह कुँवर), 18 June 1817; popularly known as Jung Bahadur Rana (JBR, ne, जङ्गबहादुर राणा)) () belonging to the ...

and

as well as the elder brother of

Ranodip Singh Kunwar Ranaudip Singh Bahadur Kunwar Ranaji (alternatively spelled Rana Uddip, Renaudip or Ranoddip), KCSI (3 April 1825 – 22 November 1885), commonly known as Ranodip Singh Kunwar ( ne, रणोद्दिप सिंह कुँवर) was th ...

and

Dhir Shamsher Kunwar Rana Dhir Shumsher Kunwar (1828 – 1884 Kathmandu) after 1848 known as Dhir Shumsher Kunwar Ranaji ( ne, धीर शम्शेर कुँवर राणाजी) or Dhir Shumsher Jang Kunwar Ranaji or shortly Dhir Shumsher Rana posthumously ...

. Kunwars came to political power being close relatives of the same Thapa family.

Career

On the night of 14 September 1846,

Jung Bahadur Kunwar Maharaja Jung Bahadur Kunwar Ranaji, (born Bir Narsingh Kunwar ( ne, वीर नरसिंह कुँवर), 18 June 1817; popularly known as Jung Bahadur Rana (JBR, ne, जङ्गबहादुर राणा)) () belonging to the ...

and his brothers massacred around 29 nobles in the

Kot Massacre The Kot massacre ( ne, कोत पर्व) took place on 14 September 1846 when then Kaji Jang Bahadur Kunwar and his brothers killed about 30-40 civil, military officers and palace guards of the Nepalese palace court including the Prime Mi ...

. Khadga Vikram Shah attempted to attack Krishna Bahadur Kunwar and was killed subsequently by Krishna's youngest brother Dhir Shamsher Kunwar. In the aftermath of the massacre, Jung Bahadur appointed his brothers and nephews to the highest ranks of the government. Krishna Bahadur Kunwar served as the Governor of Palpa between 1846 and 1849. He served as the Chief Administrator of

Morang Morang District ( ne, मोरङ जिल्ला ) is located in Province No. 1 in eastern Nepal. It is an Outer Terai district. It borders with Bihar, India to the South, Jhapa to the East, Dhankuta and Panchthar to the North, and Sunsar ...

Saptari Saptari ( ne, सप्तरी जिल्ला}), a part of Madhesh Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. Its district headquarter is Rajbiraj. Saptari is an Outer Terai district. This district covers an area of and has ...

, Parsa, Bara,

Rautahat Rautahat is a village development committee in Saptari District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2252 people living in 468 individual households. Jung Bahadur Rana ...

and

Sarlahi Sarlahi ( ne, सर्लाही ; Maithili: सर्लाही), a part of Madhesh Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. According to new laws, a combination of more than two or four villages makes a municipality, whic ...

districts in the year 1849. He served as the acting

upon the demise of his elder brother

from 25 May 1857 to 28 June 1857. He also served as the

between 1857 and 1862.

Death

He died on 9 August 1863.

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* * * * * * * * * * * * {{citation , last=Wright , first=Daniel , title=History of Nepal , year=1877 , publisher=Cambridge University Press , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mHE5hkHc7kcC Prime ministers of Nepal 1863 deaths Rana dynasty 19th-century prime ministers of Nepal 19th-century Nepalese nobility Nepalese Hindus