Ganga Prasad Pradhan (Newar: गंगा प्रसाद प्रधान; ) was born on July 4, 1851, in Kathmandu and was the first ordained Nepali Christian pastor, main translator of the Nepali Bible, co-author of an English-Nepali dictionary and author of children's textbooks.

He was born to a wealthy Newari family and taught by Scottish missionaries in Darjeeling. He returned to Kathmandu with aims of starting educational institutions for the public, as education was available to only a handful. He was exiled permanently to India in 1914 by Rana government for preaching.

Ganga Prasad Pradhan

He was also editor of Gorkhey Khabar Kagat a monthly magazine, from 1901 to his death in 1932.

Ganga Prasad Pradhan

References

interwiki - Newari language article: :new:गोर्खे खवर कागत् (पत्रिका) "Gorkhey Khabar Kagat (magazine)"

Ganga Prasad Pradhan

Bible translators

1851 births

1932 deaths

Writers from Kathmandu

Nepalese translators

Translators to Nepali

Nepalese Christians

Newar people

Nepalese exiles

Nepalese Christian clergy