Sudhira 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
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.
She was born in Calcutta on 7 March 1894, the youngest 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 25 February 1914 Alan Mander, brother of
Miles and
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 ...
, by whom she had two sons and two daughters. She died at 40 Hereford Rd, London, on 7 January 1968, when her will was proved in London on 15 February 1968 at £91.
[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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1968 deaths
1894 births
Indian princesses
Indian socialites
People from Cooch Behar
19th-century Indian women
20th-century Indian women