Upendra Bikram Shah

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| caption = Upendra Bikram Shah in the 1870s

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| birth_place = Hanuman Dhoka

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| full name = Sri Adhirajkumar Upendra Bir Bikram Shah

| father = Rajendra Bikram Shah

| mother = Maharani Samrajya

| religion = Hinduism

| native_lang1 = Nepali

| native_lang1_name1 = उपेन्द्र विक्रम शाह

| dynasty = Shah dynasty

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Upendra Bikram Shah ({{Langx|ne|उपेन्द्र विक्रम शाह}}; sometimes known as Mahila Sahibju) was a Nepalese prince.

Biography

Upendra Bikram Shah was born in Hanuman Dhoka to King Rajendra Bikram Shah and Maharani Samrajya Lakshmi Devi.{{Cite book|last=Shreshtha|first=Chuda Bahadur|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZFuAAAAMAAJ|title=Nepal, Coping with Maoist Insurgency|date=2004|publisher=Chetana Lokshum|isbn=978-99946-31-88-9|pages=280|language=en}} His mother is sometimes called one of the most powerful queens in the history of Nepal.{{Cite book|last=Jha|first=Prashant|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FBcoBgAAQBAJ|title=Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal|date=12 January 2014|publisher=Hurst|isbn=978-1-84904-524-7|language=en}}

Shah was sent into Allahabad, British India for conspiring against Jung Bahadur Rana.{{Cite book|last=Gupta|first=Anirudha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6XxuAAAAMAAJ|title=Politics in Nepal, 1950–60|date=1993|publisher=Kalinga Publications|isbn=978-81-85163-35-2|pages=21|language=en}}{{Cite book|last1=Shrestha|first1=D. B.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZrcLAAAAIAAJ|title=The History of Ancient and Medieval Nepal in a Nutshell: With Some Comparative Traces of Foreign History|last2=Singh|first2=C. E.|date=1972|publisher=Verlag nicht ermittelbar|pages=26|language=en}}

In 1854, Shah was given the Bagh Durbar, where, he was later put under house arrest for treason.{{Cite web|last=Poudel|first=Keshab|date=10 September 2017|title=Demolition of Bagh Durbar Erased History|url=https://www.spotlightnepal.com/2017/09/10/demolition-bagh-durbar-erased-history/|access-date=26 November 2021|website=SpotlightNepal|language=en}}

He died in Bikram Sambat 1896. Upendra Bikram Shah was also a Tantrik.{{Cite web|last=Bhattarai|first=Madan Kumar|date=12 December 2020|title=Unravelling the life of a forgotten Rana General|url=https://kathmandupost.com/books/2020/12/12/unravelling-the-life-of-a-forgotten-rana-general|access-date=26 November 2021|website=The Kathmandu Post|language=English}}

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