Ranajit Pande ( ne, रणजीत पाँडे) was Nepalese politician, military personnel and courtier in the
Kingdom of Nepal. He was member of the
Gora Pande
The Pande family or Pande dynasty (Also spelled as Pandey or Panday) ( ne, पाँडे वंश/पाँडे काजी खलक; or ) was a Rajput KC (surname), Chhetri political family that directly ruled Nepali administration ...
clan of Gorkha. He became
Mulkaji of Nepal for a brief period in 1804 A.D.
Family
He was born as the second son of
Tularam Pande on 1809
Vikram Samvat (1752 A.D.). His ancestors as per the inscription installed by his brother ''Kapardar''
Bhotu Pande shows Tularam, Baliram and Birudatta in the three generations.
Relation with Thapas
He had a daughter Rana Kumari Pande who was married to ''
Thapa Kaji''
Nain Singh Thapa. Their children were
Mathabarsingh Thapa, Ganesh Kumari (mother of
Jang Bahadur Rana,
and Colonel
Ujir Singh Thapa.
*Ganesh Kumari is mother of
Jung Bahadur Rana, founder of
Rana dynasty.
Career
Sino Nepalese war
He also fought in the
Sino-Nepalese War
The Sino-Nepalese War ( ne, नेपाल-चीन युद्ध), also known as the Sino-Gorkha war and in Chinese the campaign of Gorkha (), was an invasion of Tibet by Nepal from 1788 to 1792. The war was initially fought between Nepa ...
as subordinate commander under Chautariya Kaji Krishna Shah.
As a Mulkaji of Nepal
After the execution of Mulkazi Prime Minister
Damodar Pande, Ranajit who happens to be paternal cousin of Damodar was established as
Mulkaji (Chief Kazi) along with
Bhimsen Thapa
Bhimsen Thapa ( ne, भीमसेन थापा (August 1775 – 29 July 1839)) was a Nepalese statesman who served as the ''Mukhtiyar'' (equivalent to prime minister) and de facto ruler of Nepal from 1806 to 1837. He is widely known as the ...
as second Kazi,
Sher Bahadur Shah as Mul Chautariya and
Ranganath Paudel as Raj Guru (Royal Preceptor). Though he was made Mulkazi but the apex power of executive functions of state was carried out by
Rana Bahadur Shah who assumed the title of Mukhtiyar (Chief Authority).
References
Bibliography
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*{{Citation, last=Hamal, first=Lakshman B., title=Military history of Nepal, publisher=Sharda Pustak Mandir, year=1995, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O3RuAAAAMAAJ
Mulkajis
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing