Pande dynasty

Pande dynasty are a noble family that are composed of administrators of the Gorkha Kingdom and Kingdom of Nepal. The family provided many Kajis (Prime Ministers) in the w:Gorkha Kingdom and, a Dewan, a Mulkaji and a Mukhtiyar (all equivalent to Prime Minister) of the Kingdom of Nepal.

About Pandes

• From that day may be reckoned, the commencement of a counter-revolution and of those intrigues of the Kala Pandes which eventually succeeded so well in overthrowing of their rivals and in repaying the cruelties that they themselves suffered at his (Bhimsen's) hands.
  • J.R. Tickell about the Kala (Black) Pande faction (page 158) As quoted in book Thapa Politics in Nepal: With Special Reference to Bhim Sen Thapa, 1806–1839