Karbir Khatri was the Kaji of the Kingdom of Nepal during the reign of Prime Minister Jang Bahadur Rana.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 He was one of the entourage of Jang Bahadur Rana in the first royal Nepalese mission to Europe from 1850-1851.Masculinity and Mimicry: Ranas and Gurkhas. Uprety, S. 2011. Baha Occasional Papers. Available at: https://soscbaha.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/masculinity_and_mimicry.pdf
Career As a veteran of many diplomatic mission of the Nepalese government, he made more visits to Empire of China than any other Nepali official and was described as someone highly informed on Indian affairs. One of his responsibility was also to keep watch on King Rajendra.Jang Bahadur in Europe • The First Nepalese Mission to the West. John Whelpton (1983). Sahayogi Press. Page 130. He also accompanied Queen Rajya lakshmi alongside the king during her exile to Kashi.
Later life Karbir Khatri was known as a ‘venerable, old gentleman’. However, he fell out of favor after alleging that the Nepalese Prime Minister had indulged in activities whilst in England that were against Hindu customs, for which he was punished.
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