Twipra Kingdom

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Twipra Kingdom
c. 1400–15 October 1949
Coat of arms
GOLKONDA SULTANATE ◁ Location of the Tripura kingdom and neighbouring South Asian polities circa 1500 CE.[1]
Status	historical kingdom
Capital	Udaipur Agartala
Common languages	Kokborok Bengali
Religion	Hinduism
Government	Hereditary monarchy
History
• Established by Maha Manikya	c. 1400
• Reorganisation under Ratna Manikya I	c. 1460
• Joined India	15 October 1949
Succeeded by India
Today part of	India  Bangladesh  Myanmar

Kingdom of Tripura
Part of History of Tripura
Kings of Tripura Kirit Pradyot Manikya 1978–present (titular)
Tripura monarchy data
Manikya dynasty (Royal family)
Agartala (Capital of the kingdom)
Ujjayanta Palace (Royal residence)
Neermahal (Royal residence)
Rajmala (Royal chronicle)
Tripura Buranji (Chronicle)
Chaturdasa Devata (Family deities)
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The Twipra Kingdom (

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Geography

The present political areas which were part of the Twipra Kingdom are:

• Barak Valley (Cachar Plains), Hailakandi and Karimganj in present-day Assam
• Comilla, Sylhet and the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh
• The present-day states of Tripura and Mizoram^[2]

The Twipra Kingdom in all its various ages comprised the areas with the borders:

1. The Khasi Hills in the North
2. The Manipur Hills in the North-East
3. The Arakan Hills of Burma in the East
4. The Bay of Bengal to the South
5. The
   Brahmaputra
   River to the West

Legend

A list of legendary

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The religion of the Tipra had 14 deities known as Chaturdasa Devata and is still preserved in the Chaturdasha Temple in Agartala, which is maintained by the Tipra priests known as Chantais, who oversee the festivals of the Kharchi and Ker according to traditions.

History

Cheitharol Kumbaba

In Cheitharol Kumbaba chronicles of Manipur, Tripura is referred to as Takhen.^[7]

Islamic-invasions era

The earliest historical records concerning the Twipra kingdom appears in the 15th century, when it first came under pressure from the

.

Tripura was one of the states that pushed back successive waves of invasions from

of what is now Bangladesh, and even managed to remain free and independent before the British takeover.

The plains of Tripura, however, fell to the attacks from Mughals. The plains territories comprise today's South-East Dhaka and Comilla areas. While the plains areas were thus Islamized, the Hills of Tripura served as a continuous bulwark against penetration to the East. The Tripura Hill Kings were major sponsors of Hindu traditions and customs. In the modern age, they are remembered as one of the longest and most stable dynasties from the Indian East.

putting up a strong defence against the pressure of the Muslim kingdoms to the west. However, the plains areas fell away from Tripura state due to the actions of a renegade Tripuri prince who was backed by Mughal governors of Eastern Bengal plains. After this, plains Twipra became a separate Mughal client kingdom, with the Mughal rulers exerting influence on the appointment of its kings. However, the Mughals could never penetrate the Hills territories to the east.

British India

Rajadhara Manikya

(1586-1599 CE), king of Tripura.

The

of Bangladesh.

Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma (born 1978), the son of the last king, who is sometimes given the courtesy title of "Maharaja".

See also

• History of Tripura
• Tripura (princely state)
• Tripuri people

Notes

References

• Nath, NC (February 2020). Sri Rajmala (PDF). Tribal Research & Cultural Institute Government of Tripura.
• Bhattacharjee, J B (1994), "Pre-colonial Political Structure of Barak Valley", in Sangma, Milton S (ed.), Essays on North-east India: Presented in Memory of Professor V. Venkata Rao, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, pp. 61–85
• Boland-Crewe, Tara; Lea, David (2005) [2002]. The Territories and States of India. London: Routledge.
  ISBN 978-1-135-35625-5
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• Tripura Buranji 17th Century Ahom Chronicle.
• Progressive Tripura, 1930
• Rajmala, royal chronicle of Tripura Kings.
• Hill Tippera – History The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1909, v. 13, p. 118.

Further reading

Online Books and material

• Tripura Rajmala (1850) by Rev. James Long

External links

• Information on the kingdom of Tripura at the University of Queensland
• About Tippera District Present day Comilla District of Bangladesh