Jang Bahadur Rana : A great statesman or a tyrant !

What do you think was Janga Bahadur Rana one of the greatest statesman of Nepal or was he just a follish tyrant who became the curse of Nepal? Share your views!

follish tyrant who change the fate of nepalese people

I think being a great statesman and being a tyrant are related.

blazeofglory wrote:I think being a great statesman and being a tyrant are related.

ya sure they are related ...but which aspect was more prominent in Junga Bahadur...i meant to ask.

To my knowledge it was his obviously a great statesman but his image was no less than a tyrant.

Jung bdr rana was a great Man..... period!!!
he wasnt a follish anything. he did what every leader at that time would do. only difference is that everyone else didnt have his talent or the audacity. he took reponsibility of his country in his own hand and steered it for the better. just because his succesors( the rest of the rana clan) couldnt live up to his name is by no means any reflection upon his ability as a statemen. everything else was a royalist propaganda after 2007 revolution.
the same thing is happening now to the shah dynasty through the hands of the maoist.

He was a great man not a great statesman but a great family-man. He has done so many great things, not for the country but for Rana's.

Unfathom wrote:Whether "Janga Bahadur" or any other "Bahadur" that came after him till now are not so good good for our country. Even if "Jang Bahadur Rana" had made some changes for the welfare of the country and the people, that would have eventually been dissolved after the fall of "Rana Regime". He was "statesman" for the "Rana's" only. I don't think that the "Bahadur's" of today's would have appreciated his changes because we all know that the moto's of today's "Bahadur" is "Don't work and don't let other work"

I agree that non other bahadurs have also shown any "statesman ship" Some what shown by Late King Mahendra,- even though his system was not democratic.
But we are not compering Jung Bahadur with other Bahadurs.

I think he was a tyrant who pushed this country more than a century back ...but again had it not been Jung Bahadur it would have been some another Bahadur ruling this country!!!

or I believe other very good statesman would have got the chance
so it could have been worse or better is two probability just like that of coin