Diamond Shumsher Rana

Diamond Shumsher Rana was born on 5 July 1918 in Tansen, in the Palpa district, into a branch of the Rana dynasty. A captain in the royal army, he joined the opponents of the regime, was sentenced to death by a court martial and then released under pressure from his family. A member of the Nepali Congress, he was arrested in 1960 and spent six years in prison, where he wrote part of his work. His first novel, Basanti, had appeared in Benares in 1948. He died in Kathmandu on 11 March 2011.

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• NovelThe Wake of the White Tigerसेतो बाघDiamond Shumsher Rana · 1970Literature