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
Minister of Finance from 1960 to 1962. In 1962 he became chair of the
Constitution Drafting Commission. Between 1967 and 1971 he represented the graduate constituency in the National
Panchayat. In the Panchayat, he was one of the most prominent advocates of democratic reforms. 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
investigate the death of UN Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjöld, who had suffered an air crash over
Congo. Shah was one of the candidates to succeed Hammarskjöld, but was defeated by
U Thant. Shah was proven to have connection with
Balen shah in Balen's childhood.
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,
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. Shah authored several works about Nepalese politics and history.
Organizational Shah was president 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. ==References==