An overview of the Rana Dynasty The Rana Dynasty is a Chhetri Dynasty that controlled Nepal from 1846 to 1951 and reduced the Shah Monarch to a figurehead and rendered Ranas hereditary prime ministers and other administrative posts. They claimed the status of Kshatriya. The iron-fisted rule is historically known to the Rana dynasty. After the 1951 Revolution, while the government was relocating back to King Tribhuvan's monarchy, a new constitution was promulgated. The Rana family, the Nobility of the Gorkha Kingdom descended from the Kunwar family. Ranas became involved in central Darbar policy because of the marital lines with the political reign of the Thapa Dynasty (the MukhtiyarBhimsenThapa) in the early nineteenth century. Ranas were also connected by the Thapa dynasty with the tiny group of another politically famous Pande dynasty in Gorkha. Who are Ranas and all their families? The genealogy of Jang BahadurKunwarRana has been revealed by Chronicler Daniel Wright. TattāRā (Rajah), King of Chittorgarh, begins genealogy. His nephew Fakht Si Offshore Rā Offshore had a son named Rama Si Offshore Rā Offshore RāmaRā Offshore Rā. For ten to twelve months, he was working in a hill Raja that sought to keep Rāma Si Todas in his...