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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Rishikesh Shah
| image = Rishikesh Shah.jpg
| office = [[Ministry of Finance (Nepal)|Minister of Finance]]
| termstart = December 1960
| termend = July 1962
| successor = [[Surya Bahadur Thapa]]
| predecessor = [[Subarna Shamsher Rana]]
| office1 = [[List of ambassadors of Nepal to the United States|Ambassador to the United States]]
| successor1 = [[Matrika Prasad Koirala]]
| predecessor1 = [[Shankar Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana]]
| termend1 = {{end date|1960|}}
| termstart1 = {{start date|1956|9|29}}
| predecessor2 = ''Position created''
| termend2 = {{end date|1960}}
| termstart2 = {{start date|1956}}
| office2 = [[Permanent Representative to the United Nations]]
| successor2 = Unknown
| occupation = Writer, politician, human rights activist
| death_date = {{death date and age|2002|11|13|1925|5|16|}}
| birth_date = {{birth date|1925|5|16}}
| nationality = Nepalese
}}

'''Rishikesh Shah''' (May 16, 1925<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xYUSAAAAIAAJ&q=Rishikesh+Shaha+16+May+1925&dq=Rishikesh+Shaha+16+May+1925&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi87MOl6cPsAhWUrHEKHQSDDDcQ6AEwAnoECAMQAg]</ref> – November 13, 2002) was a [[Nepal]]ese writer, politician and [[human rights]] activist.<ref name="news">{{cite news |url=http://www.nepalnews.com.np/archive/2002/november/arc523.htm |url-status=dead |title=PM pays respects to Shaha |periodical=Nepalnews.com |publisher=Mercantile Communications Pvt. Ltd. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021117122046/http://www.nepalnews.com.np/archive/2002/november/arc523.htm |archive-date=2002-11-17 |author=}}</ref><ref name="himal">[http://www.nepalitimes.com/issue/119/Nation/5101 Rishikesh Shah, 77 - Nepali Times] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717130710/http://www.nepalitimes.com/issue/119/Nation/5101 |date=2011-07-17 }}</ref>

==Career==

=== Political ===
Shah was a member of the [[Nepal Prajatantrik Party]] from 1948 to 1949. Between 1951 and 1953, he was the general secretary of the [[Nepali Rastriya Congress]]. He then became general secretary of the joint [[Nepali Congress]]-Nepali Rashtriya Congress front until 1956. Shah was [[Ministry of Finance (Nepal)|Minister of Finance]] from 1960 to 1962. In 1962 he became chair of the [[Constitution of Nepal|Constitution Drafting Commission]]. Between 1967 and 1971 he represented the graduate constituency in the National [[Panchayat (Nepal)|Panchayat]]. In the Panchayat, he was one of the most prominent advocates of democratic reforms.<ref name="news" />

===Diplomatic===
Shah was the Nepalese ambassador to the [[United States]] and the first [[Permanent representative to the United Nations|Permanent Representative]] of Nepal<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rai|first=Amrit B.|date=|title=Nepal Permanent Mission to the United Nations|url=https://www.un.int/nepal/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-07-06|website=www.un.int}}</ref> to the [[United Nations]] between 1956 and 1960. In 1961 Shah was elected by the [[United Nations General Assembly]] to chair the International Commission to [[1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash|investigate the death of]] UN Secretary General [[Dag Hammarskjöld]], who had suffered an air crash over [[Congo-Kinshasa|Congo]]. Shah was one of the candidates to succeed Hammarskjöld, but was defeated by [[U Thant]]. In 1962, Shah was appointed special ambassador.<ref name="news" />

===Academic===
Shah lectured in English and Nepali at [[Tri-Chandra College]] 1945-1948. During the period 1947-1948 he served as Chief Inspector of Schools.

Shah served as visiting professor at the School of International Studies, [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], [[New Delhi]], [[India]] in 1970. In 1971 he served as Regents' Professor at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], USA. He was a Fellow at the [[Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars]], [[Washington, D.C.]] and the [[East-West Center]], [[Honolulu]].<ref name="mandala">{{cite web |url=http://www.mandalabookpoint.com/pubs/detl/ancient-and-medieval-nepal.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040712173116/http://www.mandalabookpoint.com/pubs/detl/ancient-and-medieval-nepal.htm |archive-date=2004-07-12 |date=2002 |publisher=Mandala Book Point |title=Our Publications: Ancient and Medieval Nepal}}</ref>

Shah authored several works about Nepalese politics and history.<ref name="news"/><ref name="mandala"/>

===Organizational===
Shah was also the founder of the Nepal Council of World Affairs and in 1988 he became the founding president of the [[Human Rights Organisation of Nepal]] (HURON). Later, he left HURON.<ref name="himal"/><ref name="news"/>

==References==
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[[Category:Nepali Congress politicians]]
[[Category:Finance ministers of Nepal]]
[[Category:Government ministers of Nepal]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of Nepal to the United States]]
[[Category:Permanent Representatives of Nepal to the United Nations]]
[[Category:Nepalese human rights activists]]

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