Background
SHAHA, Rishikesh was born in 1925 in Tansen, Palpain Province. Son of Raja Tarak Bahadur Shaha and Madan Dibeshwari.
SHAHA, Rishikesh was born in 1925 in Tansen, Palpain Province. Son of Raja Tarak Bahadur Shaha and Madan Dibeshwari.
Patna University and Allahabad University, India.
1951-1953 he was the general secretary of Nepali Rastriya Congress. Shaha was Minister of Finance 1960-1964. In 1962 he became chair of the Constitution Drafting Commission.
1967-1971 he represented the graduate constituency in the National Panchayat.
In the panchayat, he was one of the most prominent advocates of democratic reforms. Shaha was the Nepalese ambassador to the United States and the Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations United Nations 1956-1960.
In 1961 Shaha was elected by the United Nations General Assembly to chair the International Commission for investigating the death of United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, who had suffered an air crash over Congo. Shaha was one of the candidates to succeed Hammarskjöld, but was defeated by U Thant.
In 1962, Shaha was appointed special ambassador.
Shaha lectured in English and Nepali at Tri-Chandra College 1945-1948. During the period 1947-1948 he served as chief inspector of schools 1947-1948. Shaha served as visiting professor at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India in 1970.
In 1971 he served as Regents" Professor at Berkeley University, United States of America. He was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington.
District of Columbia and the East-West Center, Honolulu. Shaha authored several works of Nepalese politics and history.
Later, he left HURON.
Shaha was a member of Nepal Prajatantrik Party 1948-1949. He then became general secretary of the joint Nepali Congress-Nepali Rashtriya Congress front until 1956.
Married Siddhanta Rajyalakshmi in 1946.