Prativa Sundari Devi Narayan of Cooch Bihar, also known as Princess Mander, was an Indian princess of the
princely state
A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Raj, British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, ...
of
Cooch Behar
Cooch Behar (), or Koch Bihar, is a city and a municipality in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the Cooch Behar district. It is in the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas at . Cooch Behar is the only planned city in the ...
,
British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one ...
. She was born at Lily Cottage, Calcutta, on 22 November 1891, the second daughter of
H.H. Sri Sri Maharaja Sir Nripendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur, Maharaja of Cooch Behar, by his wife
H.H. Maharani Sunity Devee Sahiba, sometime Regent of Cooch-Behar and President of the State Council. She married at Woodlands, Calcutta, on 21 February 1912
Miles Mander
Miles Mander (born Lionel Henry Mander; 14 May 1888 – 8 February 1946), was an English character actor of the early Hollywood cinema, also a film director and producer, and a playwright and novelist. He was sometimes credited as Luther Mile ...
, actor, film director and author, and brother of
Geoffrey Mander
Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander (6 March 1882 – 9 September 1962) was a Midland industrialist and chairman of Mander Brothers Ltd., paint and varnish manufacturers in Wolverhampton, England, an art collector and Liberal parliamentarian.
Ea ...
of
Wightwick Manor
The legacy of a family's passion for Victorian art and design, Wightwick Manor (pronounced "Wittick") is a Victorian manor house located on Wightwick Bank, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. Owned by the National Trust since 1937, the Manor ...
, without issue, who petitioned for a divorce, granted on 24 May 1922. She died at Calcutta, 23 July 1923.
[Nicholas Mander, ''Borromean Rings: genealogy of the Mander Family'', Owlpen Press, 2011]
See also
*
Mander family
The Mander family has held for over 200 years a prominent position in the Midland counties of England, both in the family business and public life.
In the early industrial revolution, the Mander family entered the vanguard of the expansion of ...
*Sunity Devee (1921),
The Autobiography of an Indian Princess', London: J. Murray, on the Internet Archive
References
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1923 deaths
1891 births