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Mahendra of Nepal
Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, King of Nepal (June 11, 1920 - January 31, 1972) was king of Nepal from 1955 to 1972 and the British Field Marshals in 1960. He succeeded his father, Tribhuvan, who had, after years as a puppet of the Rana family, finally managed to break their more than 100-year hegemony over the country.
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