Lal Singh Khatri
Lal Singh Khatri | |
|---|---|
| लाल सिंह खत्री | |
| Lieutenant Colonel of Nepal Army | |
| Prime Minister | Jang Bahadur Rana |
| Personal details | |
| Occupation | Army Lieutenant |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Kingdom of Nepal |
Lal Singh Khatri was a Lieutenant in the Royal Nepali Army and the first Nepalese person to study English.[1] Reported to have been a fluent English speaker,[2] Khatri studied English with Brian Houghton Hodgson, a British Resident at the court of Nepal in the early 1840s.[3] He also represented Nepal on the joint exercise with the British to define borders on the Indian districts of Purnea in 1844 and Saran in 1849.[4]
Khatri accompanied Nepal's Premier Jang Bahadur Rana in the first Nepalese royal mission to England and France from 1850-1851. While in London, he wrote an article on the Illustrated London News on the subject of Nepal-Tibet border, and is considered the first Nepali to publish in English.[2][4] In the late 1850s, Khatri was a Nepal government agent in Calcutta, British India with the rank of lieutenant colonel , and later as a full colonel. [2]
References
- ↑ The First Nepali in England: Motilal Singh and PM Jang Bahadur Rana. Adhikari, K. 2017. University of Oxford. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (EBHR). Available at: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:950b8ad7-1000-40e0-828e-a79d2705fef5/files/md5d3a036e105bc13cc39c7e8169cddc6
- 1 2 3 John Whelpton. 1987. Nepali Politics and the Rise of Jang Bahadur Rana, 1830-1857. Page 335. University of London. Available at: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00028837
- ↑ "Jung Bahadur's Love for British guns". kathmandupost.com. Retrieved 2026-08-06.
- 1 2 Jang Bahadur in Europe • The First Nepalese Mission to the West. John Whelpton (1983). Sahayogi Press.