give the reason for military revolt in the rule of rajendra bir bikram shah?
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Janga Bahadur Kunwar (Nepali: जंग बहादुर कुँवर) began the Rana dynasty. He came to power through the 1846 Kot massacre (Nepali: कोत पर्व, Kot Parwa) where 36 members of the palace court including the Prime Minister and a relative of the King, Chautariya Fate Janga Shah, were murdered.
King Rajendra was insulted and his trusted bodyguard was beheaded. His junior wife, Queen Rajyalakshmi, had thought that Jung Bahadur Rana would help her to ensure that her son Prince Ranendra succeeds to the throne but Jung Bahadur had made her believe so for his own motives. Queen Rajyalakshmi was enraged and started plotting to kill Jung Bahadur but the plot was revealed. Queen Rajyalakshmi and her two sons were exiled, and King Rajendra accompanied them, for pilgrimage in Varanasi. In his absence, Crown Prince Surendra was made the Prince Regent. From exile, Rajendra sought to regain power by creating and mobilizing an army, but Jung Bahadur learned of Rajendra's plans and attacked his camp in Alau. He was captured while trying to flee and forced him to abdicate the throne in favor of his son Surendra.
Rajendra Bir Bikram Shah, thanks to his zero governance policy, his rule was weak, and it allowed the queen and other courtiers to run the show keeping the king in sidelines just like when Cersei Lannister weaved her plots in season 1 and became the character everybody loves to hate. The bad and absent leadership of both his grandfather Rana Bahadur Shah and Rajendra respectively allowed for the chaos that killed hundreds of political and military leaders. Unlike Rajendra, Robert was actually a great warrior and proven military leader who lead a successful rebellion to overthrow the ruling dynasty but the particular fact can be overlooked here for other lesser qualities of the two men would lead to what we now know as a bitter part of our history.
Fatteh Jung Shah (Chautariya), the Prime Minister known for his loyalty to the crown but killed in order of the queen in a power struggle for next kin to the throne. The way he was killed was probably not as gruesome as beheading in front of the public and putting the head on a spike. But like Ned, he gets entangled in an operation to remedy problems started by the Queen’s infidelity. For the prestige of the throne, under the order of the then King and two Princes, he heads the operations which obviously infuriates the queen later on. The queen’s illicit lover is killed but who actually ends up killing him is revealed only after it’s too late to avoid severe consequences.
The society under King Rajendra Bir Bikram Shah was constantly disputing and there was silent infighting within the diverse parties. Stuffed up with the immature and ineffective control of King Rajendra Bir Bikram Shah, in 1846, the then Kaji – Jang Bahadur Kunwar and his brothers rebelled and murdered 30 – 40 civilian and army administrators and guardians, the Prime Minister and families of the King, connected to the Nepalese Royal Palace Court. He even enforced his citizens to support her position and not that of his son, Surendra Bikram Shah. All this directed to the uprising, identified as the Kot Massacre that happened in the year 1846.