PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded by Srikrishna Acharya Chowdhury, a Varendra
Brahmin, and a
revenue officer of Nawab Murshid Quli Khan, Nawab Nazim of
Bengal
1703/1727, and who received the ijaradari of Alaphshahi
pargana, one of
the 22 estates of Bengal. After the death of Isha Khan,
three more
parganas were added to the estate. While returning from
Murshidabad by
boat, a local artisan named Muktaram Karmakar, presented
him with a
gold lamp-stand, called Gacha in Bengali. The
Zamindar, in an
effort to acknowledge the gift and to show respect to the
presenter,
renamed the town to Muktagacha. Estate holders were....
- SRI KRISHNA ACHARYA
CHOWDHURY, 1st Zamindar of Muktagacha 1727/-,
married and had
issue.
- Kumar Ram Ram Acharya Chowdhury
- Kumar Hori Ram Acharya Chowdhury, Zamindar of
Aatani,
married Rani Bidyamoyee Devi, and had issue.
- Maharaja Jagat Kishore Acharya Chowdhury,
Zamindar of
Aatani (half portion) of the total estate; married
and had issue (see
below).
- Kumar Bishnu Ram Acharya Chowdhury
- Raja Shiva Ram Acharya Chowdhury (qv)
- Raja SHIVARAM
ACHARYA
CHOWDHURY, Zamindar of Muktagacha, married
and had issue.
- Kumar Raghu Nandan Acharya Chowdhury, he donated
land for the establishment of Mymensingh town in
1787; married and had
issue.
- Kumar Gouri Kanta Acharya Chowdhury
- Kumar Kashi Kanta Acharya Chowdhury
- Kumar Surya Kanta Acharya Chowdhury, his
dwelling lodge
is now being used as the Muktagachha Shaheed
Smriti Government College;
he established the Raj Rajeswari Water Works,
Shashi Lodge, Alexandra
Castle, Suryo Kanta Hospital and the Town Hall, he
also donated land
worth two lakh to construct the Dhaka-Mymensingh
railroad.
- Maharaja Shashi Kanta Acharya Chowdhury (qv)
- Maharaja
SHASHIKANTA
ACHARYA CHOWDHURY, Zamindar of Muktagacha,
married and had issue.
- Raja Jagat Kishore Acharya Choudhury (qv)
- Kumar Jivendra Kishore Acharya
- Maharaja JAGAT
KISHORE
ACHARYA CHOWDHURY, Zamindar of Muktagacha, he
was a great patron
of Music and established the Bidyamoyee Girls High
School, and Ram
Kishore High School at Muktagachha; married and had
issue.
- Kumar Jeetendra Kishore Acharya Chowdhury
- Kumar Bhupendra Kishore Acharya Chowdhury
- Raja BAKUL ACHARYA
CHOWDHURY, Zamindar of Muktagacha -/1971,
educated privately
initially, then received a post-graduate degree in
Philosophy and a
B.A. in Mathematics, married and had issue, eight
children. He was
killed by the Pakistani Army during the Liberation War
of 1971 and is
now recognized as a ‘Martyr’ by the Government of
Bangladesh.
- Raja Devashish Acharya Chowdhury (qv)
- Raja DEVASHISH
ACHARYA
CHOWDHURY, Zamindar of Muktagacha 1971/2005,
married Rani Shipra
Devi (qv), and had issue, three daughters. He died
2005.
- Rani Shipra Devi,
Zamindarani of Muktagacha (see above)
MYMENSINGH (Zamindari)
Present Ruler:
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
- Maharaja SHASHI
KANT
ACHARYA CHOUDHURY, Zamindar of Mymensingh,
Raja of Muktagacha,
Mymensingh; he was granted the title of Raja Bahadur
as a personal
distinction in January 1913; married and had issue,
leaving three sons
and three daughters. He died on or about 31st May 1944
aged 59.
- Maharaja Sitangshu Kanta Acharya Bahadur (qv)
- Kumar Snehansu Kanta Acharya, educated at the
Scottish
Church College, and the University of Calcutta, he
studied and passed
the exams of Barrister-at-Law from the Inns of Court
in London; member
of the Indian Students Group Movement; former
Advocate General of West
Bengal and C.P.I. (Marxist) leader, he was awarded
the Order of Merit
of Syria in 1957; married Srimati Supriya Devi, born
1922, died 31st
October 2002 in Kolkata, Member, State Control
Commission of the
C.P.I.(Marxist), and a leader of the women's
movement, an author and
translator of note, she had published works of the
the Chinese poet, Lu
Shun; she was also involved with the Asiatic Society
and the Indo
Soviet Cultural Society; and had issue, a son and a
daughter.
- Dr. Sourangshu Kanta Acharyya.
- Prof. Bijoya Goswami, [born 7th December 1951?],
Professor of Sanskrit, Jadavpur University
- Maharaja SITANGSHU
KANTA
ACHARYA Bahadur, Zamindar of Mymensingh, Raja
of Muktagacha,
married Srimati Maharani Reba Acharya, and had issue,
two sons. He died
on or about 5th June 1952.
- Kumar Sahasrangshu Kanta Acharya, fl.1962
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Raja Harisch Chandra Chaudhri, descendant of Sri
Krishna
Chaudhri, Zamindar of Karni, Rajshahi; he was granted
the title of Raja
on 1st January 1877 as a personal distinction in
recognition of his
contributions to various works of public utility,
married and had
adoptive issue.
- (A) Kumar Upendra Chandra Choudhury/Chaudhri,
title
of Kumar was granted as a personal distinction on
18th July 1861
- Janet Hicks, born about 1937, Miss Essex 1956;
married 1956 (div. 1959), the Maharaja of Mymensingh,
born 1930. [The Straits Times, 7 May 1956,
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