PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
about 100AD. The state was called Independent Hill Tippera and later
was named Tripura until the time of the Merger with India, with two
Headquarters, one at Agartala and the other at Comilla (now
Bangladesh). Rulers are.....
- Raja RATNA Manikya,
99th Raja of Tripura 1279/1323, received the title of Manikya about
1352 Vikram?.
- Raja KALYAN Manikya,
Raja of Tripura 1625/1659, he defied the Mughals for many years, but in
the end he had to submit to their authority; he built the great tank at
Kasba, and called it Kalyan Sagar; married and had issue. He died 1659.
- Raja Govinda Manikya, eldest son and Juvaraj (qv)
- Thakur Nakshatra Rai, he defeated his brother and
succeeded to the gaddi as Raja Chattra Manikya (qv)
- Thakur Rajballah (fourth son), married and had issue.
- generation
- generation
- generation
- Thakur Rudramani, he succeeded as Raja Jai
Manikya (qv)
- Thakur Haridhan, he succeeded as Raja Bijaya
Manikya (qv)
- Raja GOVINDA Manikya,
Raja of Tripura 1659/1660 (first time)
- Raja CHATTRA Manikya,
Raja of Tripura 1660/1666, married and had issue. He died 1666.
- generation
- generation
- Kunwar Jagat Ram, he succeeded as Raja Jagat Manikya
(qv)
- Raja GOVINDA Manikya,
Raja of Tripura 1666/1669 (second time), married Rani Gunavati
Mahadevi, and had issue.
- Raja Ram Manikya (qv)
- Raja Narendra Manikya (qv)
- Raja RAM Manikya,
Raja of Tripura 1669/1682, he excavated the great tank at Maijkhara and
called it Ram Sagar; married and had issue.
- Raja Ratna Manikya II, eldest son and Jubaraj (qv)
- Ghanshyam Thakur, he killed his brother and succeeded him
as Raja Mahendra Manikya (qv)
- Yuvaraj Dhurjaya Dev Thakur, he succeeded as Raja Dharma
Manikya (qv)
- Yuvaraj Chandramani Thakur, he succeeded as Raja Makunda
Manikya (qv)
- Raja RATNA Manikya II,
Raja of Tripura in 1682 (first time), the throne was seized by his
uncle.
- Raja NARENDRA Manikya,
Raja of Tripura 1682/1684, he was replaced by his nephew with the help
of the Nawab Nazim of Bengal.
- Raja RATNA Manikya II,
Raja of Tripura 1681/1712 (second time), he had the great temple of
Jaggernath, called Sattra Ratna,
built in the neighbourhood of Comitilla; during his reign he managed to
to throw of the Mughal yoke in the late 1690's. He was killed by his
brother in 1712.
- Raja MAHENDRA Manikya,
Raja of Tripura 1712/1714
- Raja DHARMA Manikya,
Raja of Tripura 1714/1732 (first time), he fled to the hills when
attacked by the Mughal troops, brought by his nephew.
- Raja JAGAT Manikya,
Raja of Tripura 1732/1733, he usurped the gaddi with the help of Mughal
troops, but was soon deposed on the orders of the Nawab Nazim; married
and had issue,
- Balaram Thakur, he proclaimed himself Raja Balaram
Manikya, but 'ruled' only for about a year before losing his support in
1777.
- Raja DHARMA Manikya,
Raja of Tripura in 1733 (second time), he built the great tank at
Kasba, and called it the Dharma Sagar; married and had issue.
- Gadadhar Thakur, he succeeded briefy as Raja Udai Manikya
(qv)
- Raja MAKUNDA Manikya,
Raja of Tripura 1733/1737; married and had issue.
- Panchkouri Thakur, he succeeded as Raja Indra Manikya (qv)
- Haramani Thakur, Juvaraj of Tripura, married and had
issue. He died about 1740.
- Kanthamani Thakur, born lame and was therefore not
eligible for succession; married and had issue.
- Rajdharmani Thakur, he succeeded as Raja Rajadhara
Manikya II (qv)
- Raja JAI Manikya,
Raja of Tripura 1737/1739 (first time), removed on the orders of the
Nawab Nazim.
- Raja INDRA Manikya,
Raja of Tripura 1739/17xx (first time)
- Raja UDAI Manikya,
Raja of Tripura 17xx/174x, married and had issue.
- Banamali Thakur, he was installed as Raja Lakshan Manikya
by Shamsher Gazi, a freebooter, but the new Raja was not accepted by
the people; and Shamsher Gazi was eventually caught and blown
from a cannon in Dacca; married Rana Mahadaya Devi, and had issue.
- Durgamani Thakur, Juvaraj, he succeeded as Raja Durga
Manikya (qv)
- Raja JAI Manikya,
Raja of Tripura 174x/174x (second time), deposed by the Nawab Nazim of
Bengal.
- Raja INDRA Manikya,
Raja of Tripura 174x/174x (second time), married and had issue.
- Krishnamani Thakur, he succeeded as Raja Krishna Manikya
(qv)
- Raja JAI Manikya,
Raja of Tripura 174x/1743 (third time)
- Raja BIJAYA Manikya,
Raja of Tripura 1743/1760, married and had issue.
- Raja KRISHNA Manikya,
Raja of Tripura 1760/1783, married Rani Jahnavi Mahadevi. He died sp 1783.
- Rani Jahnavi Mahadevi,
Rani of Tripura 1783/1785. She became sati
in 1785.
- Raja RAJADHARA Manikya II,
Raja of Tripura 1785/1804, he was falsely accused of harbouring
dacoits, relieved of his lands and was deported to Chittagong; he was
restored to his title and property in 1792; married and had issue. He
died 1804.
- Raja Ramaganga Manikya (qv)
- Raja Kashichandra Manikya (qv)
- Raja RAMAGANGA Manikya,
Raja of Tripura 1804/1809 and 1813/1826, he usurped the gaddi, and the
Juvaraj managed to escape with his life, and later appealed to the
Sardar Dewani Adalat (the then highest court in India), who granted the
appeal on 24th March 1809, and Raja Ramaganga Manikya was deposed;
married and had issue.
- Rajkumar Krishna Kishore, he succeeded as Raja Krishna
Kishore Manikya (qv)
- Raja DURGA Manikya,
Raja of Tripura 1809/1813, he was a pious man, and made a pilgrimage to
Benares but died of cholera on the way there, at Patna on the Ganges in
1813.
- Raja KASHICHANDRA Manikya,
Raja of Tripura 1826/1830, appointed Juvaraj in 1821; married and had
issue. He died 5th January 1830.
- Rajkumar Krishnachandra Deb Burman, he was appointed Bara
Thakur in 1826, but died before his father.
- Raja KRISHNA KISHORE
Manikya, Raja of Tripura 1830/1849, he was appointed Bara Thakur
in 1821 and Juvaraj in 1826?; married and had
issue. He died 1849.
- Raja Ishanachandra Manikya Dev Varman (qv)
- HH Maharaja Birchandra Manikya Dev Varman (qv)
- Rajkumar Nilkrishna Deb Burman
- Raja ISHANACHANDRA Manikya
Dev Varman, Raja of Tripura 1849/1862 , appointed Juvaraj,
married and had issue.
- Rajkumar Brajendrachandra Manikya, he was appointed Bara
Thakur in July 1862.
- Rajkumar Navadipchandra Deb Burman, he was appointed Bara
Karta in July 1862; sitarist,
married
Kumari Nirupama Devi, and had
issue, nine children, five sons and four daughters.
- Kumar Navin Chandra Deb Burman, married and had issue.
- Kumar Pulin Behari Deb Burman, a sitarist, married
Kumari Shreela
Deb Burman, and
had
issue, one son and three daughters.
- Kumar Deepak Deb Burman
- Kumari Ashima Deb Burman, born 10th November 1956
in
Mumbai,
Lecturer in
Education
in Mumbai.
- Lt. Col. Kumar Kiran Kumar Deb Burman (fourth son)
- Kumar Sachin Deb Burman (fifth son), born 1st October
1906 in
Comilla,
singer, composer
and
music director, educated in Comilla (passing his Matriculation (1920)
and Intermediate (1922) examinations), then at Comilla Victoria College
(B.A., 1924) and at Calcutta University (M.A., English); he first sang
for All India Radio Kolkata around 1926 and cut his first disc as a
singer cum composer in 1932; he was awarded a gold medal in the All
Bengal Classical Music Conference in 1934 and later, the prestigious Sangeet Natak Academy Award and the
Padma Shri for
his
contribution to music; he married 1938, Kumari Meera
Devi,
an accomplished singer and dancer, and had issue. He died 31st October
1975 in Bombay.
- Kumar Rahul Deb Burman, born 27th June 1939, singer
and
actor, married Asha
Bhonsla,
born 1932, famous singer, daughter of Dinanath Mangeshkar (died 1942),
and sister of Lata Mangeshkar, born 28th September 1929 at Lahore, well
known singer. He died 1994.
- HH Maharaja BIRCHANDRA
Manikya Dev Varman, Maharaja of Tripura 1862/1896, born
1837,
succeeded 31st July 1862 (#1),
he was appointed Juvaraj in July 1862, installed as Raja in 1870;
married and had issue. He died 14th December 1896.
- HH Maharaja Radha Kishore Dev Varman Manikya (qv)
- Maharajkumar Samarendra Chandra Dev Varma (fourth son),
he was appointed Bara Thakur in 187x. He died 19xx.
- HH Maharaja RADHA KISHOR
Dev Varman Manikya, Maharaja of Tripura 1896/1909, born
1857, he was appointed Juvaraj in 1870 and installed upon the gaddi on
5th March 1897; married and had
issue. He died 12th March 1909.
- HH Maharaja Birendra Kishore Manikya (see below)
- Maharajkumar Ranabur Kishore Dev Varman, married Rani
Yadvhendra Kaur,
daughter
of Raja Ranbir Singh of Patiala.
- Maharajkumar Brajendra Kishore Dev Varman, married two
Princesses from
Dholpur,
and had issue.
- Maharajkumar Ramendra Kishore Dev Varman, married
1stly,
Rani
Ila Devi, daughter of HH Maharaja Jitendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur of Cooch
Behar, and his wife, HH Maharani Indira Devi, married 2ndly, 1945,
Rani
Kamal Prabha Devi (see below), and had issue
- Maharajkumar Manabendra Kishore Deb Burman [Prince
Bhim]
(by Rani
Ila Devi),
born 1937, married
Rani Reeta Roy. He died 2002.
- Rani Devika Devi (by
Rani
Ila Devi), born 1938, married 1961, Maharaj
Prithviraj Singh, Raja Saheb of Jhalai
in Jaipur.
- Maharajkumar Bharat Kishore Deb Burman [Prince Habi]
(by
Rani
Ila Devi), born
1941, married
Rani
Moon Moon Sen, and has issue, two daughters.
- Kumari Raima Dev Sen Verma, born 11th November
1979 in Mumbai; a Film actress, she first appeared in Godmother
(1999), with her most recent role being in The Japanese Wife
(2008).
- Kumari Riya Dev Sen Verma, born 24th January
1981 in Kolkata; educated at Loreto House, Kolkata, Rani Birla College,
Kolkata and the National Institute of Fashion Technology; a
Fashion designer, model and Film actress, she first appeared in Vishkanya
(1991), and since then has starred or appeared in many movies, the most
recent being Heyy Baby (2007); she has worked as an activist,
and has appeared in an AIDS awareness music
video and has
helped to raise funds for paediatric eye-care.
- Maharajkumari Dhriti Devi (by Rani Kamal Prabha),
married Bimal Baruah, educated at St. Edmund's School, Shillong, and
has issue.
- Maharajkumari Shriti Devi (by Rani Kamal Prabha)
- Maharajkumari Hemantika Devi (by Rani Kamal Prabha)
 Maharajkumar Jishnu Kishore Dev Varma (by Rani Kamal
Prabha),
married and has issue.
- Kumar Pratik Kishore Dev Varma
- Maharajkumar Narendra Kishore Dev Varman
- HH Bisana Samara Mahamahodaya Pancha Srijukta Maharaja BIRENDRA KISHORE Dev Varman
Manikya
Bahadur, Maharaja of Tripura 1909/1923, born
1883, he was appointed the Yuvaraj on 8th February 1899; installed upon
the gaddi on 25th November
1909; Maharaja [cr.1919], married 1stly, HH Maharani Prabhabati Devi,
daughter of Commanding General Maharajkumar Padma Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal, married 2ndly,
HH Maharani Arundhati Devi, married 3rdly, HH Maharani (name unknown), married 4thly, HH
Maharani
Jeevan
Kumari
Devi [Jibaneshwari Devi], daughter of Shri Ranendra Bikram Shah of
Nepal, married 5thly, married 6thly, and had issue, 12 sons and 18
daughters.
He died 13th August 1923.
- Capt. HH Bisam-Samar-Bijayi Mahamahodya Pancha-Srijukta
Maharaja
Manikya
Sir Bir Bikram Kishore Dev Varman Bahadur (by Maharani Arundhati Devi)
(see below)
- Maharajkumar Karna Kishore Dev Varman (by Maharani
Jibaneshwari Devi)
- Maharajkumar Durjay Kishore Dev Varman (by Maharani
Jibaneshwari Devi) fl.1940
- Maharajkumar Sukumar Kishore Dev Varman (by Maharani
Jibaneshwari Devi)
- Maharajkumari Biphas Prabha Devi [HH Maharani Vibhas Devi
of Baria], married HH Maharawal
Sabhagsinhji Ranjitsinhji
of Baria,
and had issue.
- Maharajkumari Ujjala Devi, married (as his third wife),
Raja Bodh Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal.
- Rani Kamal Prabha Devi (by Maharani Jibaneshwari Devi),
born 29th January 1915, an accomplished singer and composer, now she is
a writer and painter and also composes poetry in Bengali and Hindi;
married
(her cousin),
1945, Maharaj Ramendra Kishore Dev Varman, and had issue (see
above).
 Lt.-Col.
HH Bisam-Samar-Bijayi Mahamahodya Pancha-Srijukta Maharaja
Manikya Sir
BIR BIKRAM KISHORE Deb Burman Bahadur, Maharaja of Tripura
1923/1947, born 19th August 1908,
married 1stly, 16th January 1929, the 6th daughter of Maharaja Bahadur Sir Bhagwati Prasad
Singh of Balrampur,
married 2ndly, 28th May 1931, HH Maharani Kanchan Prabha Devi, Regent
of
Tripura 1947/1949, eldest daughter of Col.
HH Maharaja Mahendra Sir Yadvendra Singh Ju Deo Bahadur of Panna, and his first wife, HH Maharani
Shri
Manhar Kunverba,
and had issue. He died 17th May 1947
- HH Bisam-Samar-Bijayi Mahamahodya Pancha-Srijukta
Maharaja
Kirit Bikram Kishore Dev Varman Manikya Bahadur (qv)
- HH Maharani Jayati Devi, married HH
Maharajadhiraj
Sipahdar-ul-Mulk Jayendra Singh Ju Deo of Charkhari,
and has issue.
- HH Maharani Priti Devi, married 1956, Yuvaraj
Prithviraj Singh [later HH Maharajadhiraj
Mirzan Maharao Shri Pragmalji Madansinhji III Sawai Bahadur] of Kutch, and has issue.
 HH Bisam-Samar-Bijayi
Mahamahodya Pancha-Srijukta
Maharaja KIRIT BIKRAM KISHORE Deb Burman Manikya Bahadur,
Maharaja of Tripura 1947/2006,
born
13th December 1933, educated
at Mayo College, Ajmer; Member of the Lok Sabha in 1967,
1977
and 1989 elected from East Tripura constituency as a Congress
candidate; whilst in college he represented Rajasthan
in hockey and cricket; he was crowned table tennis champion of
Meghalaya in 1979; married 1stly, 6th March 1960, HH Maharani Padma
Raje, daughter of HH Maharaja Scindia Sir Jivajirao Scindia
of Gwalior, and his wife, HH Maharani
Vijaya Raje, born 23rd February 1942, died 26th April 1969; married
2ndly, HH Maharani
Bibhu Kumari Devi,
born 28th June 1944 in Mussorie, Uttar Pradesh, daughter of Raja Luv
Shah
of Khairigarh (UP), and his wife,
Rani Meenakshi Devi, B.A.; educated at Loreto School, Lucknow and at
Isabella Thorpe College, Lucknow, M.P. and Minister of State; and had
issue. He died of a heart attack on 27th November 2006 at the Rabindranath Tagore International
Institute of Cardiac Science Hospital in Kolkata, and was
accorded a state funeral.
- Maharaj Kumari Kanika Devi (by HH Maharani Padma
Raje), born 29th
January
1961,
married
1stly, February 1980 in New Delhi (div.), Tikka Budheshwar Pal, born
6th
July 1956 at New Delhi, son of Raja Saheb Shri Mahendra Palji Bahadur
of Kutlehar,
and his first wife, Rani
Lalita Devi, married 2ndly, Yuvraj Chandra Vijay Singh, son of Maharaja
Bahadur Kamal Singh of Dumraon,
and his wife, Maharani Usha Rani, and has issue by second husband.
- Rani Saheb Pratima Devi (by HH Maharani Padma
Raje), born 12th June
1962
in Calcutta,
married 26th June 1980 in Mussoorie, Shri Dhawal Shumsher Jung Bahadur
Rana of Nepal, and
has
issue.
- Maharaj Kumari Pragya Deb Burman (by HH Maharani
Bibhu Kumari Devi), born 10th
January 1969, Convener for the Indian National Trust for Art and
Cultural Heritage in Tripura, Chairperson of the North Eastern Regional
Development Association in Shillong, awarded The International Poet of
Merit Award in Washington D.C. for her poetry book, Immortal Verses;
married 8th November 2008, Dr. Matteo Forani of Italy.
- Maharaj Kumari Kriti Devi (by HH Maharani
Bibhu Kumari Devi), born 3rd June
1971, engaged in rural development projects in
Panna, married 19th February 2003,
Yuvraj
Yogeshwar Singh [now Raja
Yogeshwar Singh, Raja Saheb] of Kawardha
in
Chhatisgarh, and has issue.
- HH Bisam-Samar-Bijayi Mahamahodya Pancha-Srijukta
Maharaja
Pradyot Deb Burman Manikya Bahadur (by HH Maharani
Bibhu Kumari Devi) (qv)
- HH Bisam-Samar-Bijayi
Mahamahodya Pancha-Srijukta Maharaja
PRADYOT DEB BURMAN Manikya Bahadur, Maharaja of Tripura (see
above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Ranjan Deb Burman
- Rajib Deb Burman, born 28th March 1967.
- Jay Kishore Deb Burman, born 25th July 1972 at Agartala.
- Debabrata Deb Burman, born 3rd February 1971 at Agartala.
- Arup Deb Burman, born 6th January 1963 at Agartala.
- Ankur Deb Burman, born 2nd April 1967 at Agartala.
- Amitabha Deb Burman, born 11th February at Agartala.
- Shri Birchandra Deb Burman, son of Shri Satish Chandra Deb
Burman, M.A,
LLB., C.P.I. (Tripura); born 1st March 1920, Member of the Tripura
Legislative
Assembly 1962/1967, Member of the Rajya Sabha [3.4.1974] -
[2.4.1980], died unmarried
7th August 1995. (Harish Thakur Street, Agartala,
Tripura, India).
- Sanjib Debbarma Dip. Engg., born 18th April 1986, son of S.
Debbarma, and his wife, R. Debbarma.
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born 4th July
1977, succeeded to the gaddi
of Tripura on 27th November 2006; educated at St. Edmund's School and
St. Anthony's College (Hist. Hons.), Chairman of the Royal Heritage
Hotel, Member of the All India Congress, Chairman and Managing Editor
of the Northeast Today newspaper, Advisor to the North East Students
Committee in Delhi, Advisor to the North East Regional Development
Association (NERDA), Publisher - Manikya prints and works, Director of
Meghalaya Road Runners, a state junior representative in cricket and
football (soccer), is a keen sports lover and is currently a member of
and advisor to many social and cultural organisations in north eastern
India.