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Company:Kaiser Library, Nepal

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The Kaiser Library has more than fifty thousand books, documents, periodicals and manuscripts. This Library is richest in the collection of rare books, manuscripts, paintings, photographs, animals' heads, etc.

' Introduction Collections Catalogue About Us During the last days of the Rana regime, Kaiser Shumshere was the Lord Saheb In-Charge of the Nepalese Army. Right from his very young age of 15 or 16 Kaiser Shumshere was interested in buying and collecting different types of books and newspapers. In that very young age he also got a chance to visit England with his father Maharaja Chandra. He was very much impressed by the ruling system of England, as well as by the library system and the proper management of books there. Book collection was his hobby and his visit to Britain British libraries led to increase the number of his books and change in the structure of his own library. From England, he bought brought with him many books to Kathmandu. Even though the books in his library grew in number they were his personal property and ordinary '-Kaiser Library, Nepal

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