Kashiraj Pradhan (11 December 1905 – 31 March 1990) popularly known as Kashi Babu was an Indian pre-merger politician and journalist in Sikkim.
[1][2] Pradhan was born in the family of the aristocratic Newar Taksaris in Pakyong, East Sikkim.
He also started a business exporting Sikkim oranges and cardamom to Calcutta (present day Kolkata).
[4][5] By late 1950s to the 1970s the Sikkim State Congress was led by him or his nephew Nahakul Pradhan both serving as President of the party in different decades.
Under their leadership the party greatly moderated it's anti-Chogyal stand and participated in the Royal Sikkimese administration through subsequent wins in elections to the State Council[6] He was also a journalist, who started Sikkim's first monthly news magazine, Kanchenjunga in 1957 with his nephew Nahakul Pradhan as its editor.