Basnyat family

Basnyat dynasty
बस्न्यात वंश/बस्न्यात काजी खलक

Basnyats/Basnets of Gorkha
Noble house
Parent houseShreepali Basnyat clan of Lamjung
Country
Founded18th century
FounderShivaram Singh Basnyat
Current headcurrently as pretender
Final rulerBirdhwaj Basnyat (head of Basnyat clan on 1846)
Titles
Style(s)
TraditionsTagadhari Chhetri
Deposition1846 Bhandarkhal massacre
Kaji Abhiman Singh Basnet, a minister and military officer of Basnyat family

Basnyat/Basnet family or Basnyat/Basnet dynasty (Nepali: बस्न्यात वंश/बस्न्यात काजी खलक) was a Khas-Chhetri and a warlord clan family involved in the politics and administration of the Gorkha Kingdom and Kingdom of Nepal.[1] This family got entry into Thar Ghar aristocracy group of Gorkha at the time of King Prithvi Narayan Shah.[2] It was one of the four noble families to be involved in active politics of Nepal together with the Shah dynasty, Pande family and the Thapa dynasty before the rise of the Rana dynasty.[3] This family is descended from Shivaram Singh Basnyat, the commander of Gorkhali forces and a member of Shreepali Basnyat clan of Gorkha.[4] This family was maritally linked to Kala (Black) Pande section of the Pande dynasty through Chitravati Pande who married Kaji Kehar Singh Basnyat.[5] This family was the last Kshatriya (Chhetri) political family to be wiped out from the central power by Jung Bahadur Rana of Kunwar family during the Bhandarkhal Massacre in 1846 for the conspiracy to take the power leading to people suffering from 104 long years of the Rana rule. [6]

  1. ^ Joshi & Rose 1966, pp. 23–25.
  2. ^ Pradhan 2012, p. 21.
  3. ^ Joshi & Rose 1966, p. 23.
  4. ^ Hamal 1995, p. 182.
  5. ^ Regmi 1995, p. 44.
  6. ^ Joshi & Rose 1966, p. 32.