{"id":"ganga-prasad-pradhan","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ganga-prasad-pradhan","language":"en","name":"Ganga Prasad Pradhan","name_en":"Ganga Prasad Pradhan","name_ne":"गंगा प्रसाद प्रधान","description":"Nepali pastor and translator of the bible","headline":"Nepali pastor and translator of the bible","also_known_as":[],"summary":"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.","summary_more":["He was born to a wealthy Newari family and taught by Scottish missionaries in Darjeeling, where he also worked on the Nepali Bible. His daughter Alice remembered his work on the Nepali Bible:","\"He wanted the very ordinary people to understand. He used to invite all the people bringing oranges from Eastern Nepal to Darjeeling — they used to come over (the border) in large numbers. So he would build a big open fire, prepare rice and invite the people to sit down. After they ate he would say, 'Now I’m going to read something to you, and I want you to tell me whether you can understand it or not.’ Then he would read from his translation of the Bible. If anyone found something difficult to understand he would correct it.\"","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.","He was also editor of Gorkhey Khabar Kagat a monthly magazine, from 1901 to his death in 1932."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"4 July 1851","date":"1851-07-04"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5520995#P569"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"1932","date":"1932"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5520995#P570"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5520995#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"translator","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333634"},{"text":"Bible translator","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24262584"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5520995#P106"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganga_Prasad_Pradhan","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%99%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5520995"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Ganga Prasad Pradhan born?","a":"Ganga Prasad Pradhan was born on 4 July 1851."}],"related":[{"name":"The Buddha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/the-buddha"},{"name":"Dona Sarkar","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/dona-sarkar"},{"name":"Balkrishna Sama","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/balkrishna-sama"},{"name":"Radha Paudel","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/radha-paudel"},{"name":"Yogmaya Neupane","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/yogmaya-neupane"},{"name":"Bhupi Sherchan","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bhupi-sherchan"},{"name":"Taranath Sharma","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/taranath-sharma"},{"name":"Ambalika Devi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ambalika-devi"},{"name":"Chittadhar Hridaya","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/chittadhar-hridaya"},{"name":"Lekhnath Paudyal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/lekhnath-paudyal"},{"name":"Siddhicharan Shrestha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/siddhicharan-shrestha"},{"name":"Krishna Lal Adhikari","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/krishna-lal-adhikari"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/ganga-prasad-pradhan-72b1df8774.jpg","width":500,"height":762,"license":"PD-US","credit":"Unknown (Life time: Unknown)","page":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Photograph_of_Ganga_Prasad_Pradhan.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Ganga Prasad Pradhan","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganga_Prasad_Pradhan","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): गंगा प्रसाद प्रधान","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%99%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q5520995","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5520995","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Photograph of Ganga Prasad Pradhan.jpg by Unknown (Life time: Unknown) (PD-US)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Photograph_of_Ganga_Prasad_Pradhan.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Ganga Prasad Pradhan, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Photograph of Ganga Prasad Pradhan.jpg — Unknown (Life time: Unknown), PD-US.","cite":"\"Ganga Prasad Pradhan\". DigiNepal. Last updated 2 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/ganga-prasad-pradhan. Retrieved 6 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-02T06:46:37Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/ganga-prasad-pradhan","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/ganga-prasad-pradhan","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/ganga-prasad-pradhan?lang=ne"}}