Chandra Shumser: the Mimic Man (An Explorative Study from Postcolonial Perspective)

The research article explores the mimicry of western especially British values and lifestyle by the Nepalese Rana rulers especially by Chandra Shumser, the fifth Primeminister of Rana autocratic regime of Nepal. Nepalese ruling Rana family was deeply influenced by the white skin colonial authorities and their sophisticated lifestyles. British colonization in the Indian sub continents during 18th and 19th century has propound impact in politics, economics, culture and other aspects of local people. This article explores those impacts on Nepalese Rulers and how the mimicry of western values and lifestyles by the ruling Ranas and their families led to hybridity and mockery lacking their idealism and other traits.