Gaurav Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana ( ne, गौरव शम्शेर जङ्गबहादुर राणा) known as Gaurav Shumsher JB Rana was

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of the

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between September 2012 and August 2015. He is a descendant of Shamsher Rana family of Nepal through then Maharajkumar

Baber Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana Sir Baber Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, GCVO, GBE, KCSI, KCIE (27 January 1888 – 12 May 1960) was a member of the Rana dynasty who served as the Minister of Defence of Nepal in 1951. A prominent member of the Rana oligarchy, he fought valian ...

Family

General Gaurav Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana is a great, great grandson of Rana Prime Minister

Chandra Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana Field-Marshal Maharaja Sri Teen Chandra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana (8 July 1863 – 26 November 1929) was the Prime Minister of Nepal from the Rana dynasty. He served in this capacity from 27 June 1901 to his death in 1929, after he successfull ...

; the great grandson of Commanding General Babar Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana, grandson of Lieutenant General Mrigendra Shumsher, and son of former Major General Aditya Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana who is married to Mrs. Rohini Rana. The couple has two daughters, two grandsons and two granddaughters. He was educated at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies,

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. He was sent to

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after his mother decided to send him to a place where he could stay with his maternal cousins.

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, - {{DEFAULTSORT:Rana, Gaurav Shumsher Jung Bahadur Living people Nepalese generals 1955 births Members of the Order of Tri Shakti Patta, Third Class Order of Gorkha Dakshina Bahu Rana dynasty 20th-century Nepalese nobility 21st-century Nepalese nobility