Photograph of Chandra Shamsher Jang, Rana of Nepal; full-length, seated, facing left, holding sword in left hand. Signed bottom right by sitter. Annotated on verso by Queen Mary: Sir Chandra Shum / Shere / Prime Minister / of Nepal.

Maharaja Sri Teen Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana was the fifth Prime Minister of Nepal from the Rana dynasty, serving from 1901, following the deposition of his brother Deva Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, to his death in 1929. He received George V on a hunting trip to Nepal in 1911, and the Prince of Wales in 1921. Chandra Shamsher Jang signed the Anglo-Nepalese Treaty of Friendship in 1923, which recognised the independence of Nepal.