ABSTRACT
When King Prithvi Bir sent official notifications to the British and Chinese governments of Chandra Shamsher’s appointment as prime minister in June 1901, Lord Curzon extended immediate recognition. This deepened suspicions in Nepal that the viceroy might have struck some kind of a deal with Chandra during the hunting expedition in the Terai that was immediately followed by his successful coup. To the Chinese, the Nepalese monarch requested that the traditional honor and robes meant for Dev Shamsher now be transferred to his successor. Chandra had an immediate task: the 1894 mission to Beijing had returned home long after the next one was due. The ambans permitted Kathmandu to postpone the mission, citing the famine in Shanxi province. 1
