Harish Chandra (raja)
| Harish Chandra Rai | |
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British India | |
| Died | 1885 (aged 43–44) |
| Spouse | Shourindri Dewan |
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Raja Harish Chandra Rai (c. 1841[citation needed]–1885) was the 47th Raja of the Chakma Circle.
Biography
He was the grandson of Raja Dharam Bux Khan through his daughter born of his third Rani.[citation needed]
He married Rani Shourindri Dewan of the Larma Goza (Clan or Sept).[citation needed]
His grandmother,
British India vested Harish Chandra with the title of Rao Bahadur. At her death in 1873, he became chief of the Chakmas, and the title of Raja was conferred on him the next year.[1] According to ethnographer J. P. Mills, Harish Chandra's "drunkenness, incompetency and contumacy" rendered him so ineffective a ruler that it became necessary to depose him in April 1884.[2] He died in 1885.[1]
Children
- Rajkumari[citation needed]
- Raja Bhuvan Mohan Roy[citation needed]
- Rajkumar Ramani Mohan Roy[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b Hutchinson, R. H. Sneyd (1907). Eastern Bengal and Assam District Gazetteers: Chittagong Hill Tracts. Allahabad: Pioneer Press. p. 25.
- ISBN 978-0-19-909691-6.
Further reading
- Mills, James Philip (2009). Mey, Wolfgang (ed.). J.P. Mills and the Chittagong Hill Tracts, 1926/27 (PDF). Heidelberg University.
- Barua, Brahmanda Pratap (2016). "Political Relation with the Chiefs". British Relations with Hill Tippera and Chittagong Hill Tribes 1858 to 1900 (PhD). University of Calcutta. hdl:10603/205400.