Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev | |||||||||||||
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King of Nepal | |||||||||||||
Reign | 13 March 1955 – 31 January 1972 | ||||||||||||
Coronation | 2 May 1956 | ||||||||||||
Predecessor | Tribhuvan | ||||||||||||
Successor | Birendra | ||||||||||||
Born | Narayanhity Royal Palace Kathmandu, Kingdom of Nepal | 11 June 1920||||||||||||
Died | 31 January 1972 Diyalo Bangala, Bharatpur, Nepal[1] | (aged 51)||||||||||||
Burial | |||||||||||||
Spouse | |||||||||||||
Issue (Details) | Shanti Singh, Rani of Bajhang Princess Sharada Birendra, King of Nepal Gyanendra, King of Nepal Princess Shobha Prince Dhirendra[2] | ||||||||||||
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Dynasty | Shah dynasty | ||||||||||||
Father | Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah | ||||||||||||
Mother | Kanti Rajya Lakshmi Devi | ||||||||||||
Religion | Hinduism | ||||||||||||
Occupation | Author | ||||||||||||
हस्ताक्षर |
Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (Nepali: महेन्द्र वीर विक्रम शाह देव), (11 June 1920 – 31 January 1972) was the ninth King of Nepal from 13 March 1955 until his death in 1972, which was due to a heart attack, as told in an interview by his personal physician Dr. Mrigendra Raj Pandey. Following the 1960 coup d'état, he established the partyless Panchayat system, which governed the country for 28 years until the introduction of multi-party democracy in 1990. During his reign, Nepal experienced a period of industrial, political and economic change which opened it to the rest of the world for the first time, after the 104-year-long reign of the Rana rulers, who kept the country under an isolationist policy, came to an end in 1951.