Maharani Kanchan Prava Devi was a Queen of Tripura as the wife of
Bir Bikram Kishore Debbarma, King of
Tripura State. After her husband's death in 1947, she was regent of Tripura until it was merged with India in 1949.
Life
She was the daughter of
Maharaja
Mahārāja (; also spelled Maharajah, Maharaj) is a Sanskrit title for a "great ruler", "great king" or " high king".
A few ruled states informally called empires, including ruler raja Sri Gupta, founder of the ancient Indian Gupta Empire, a ...
Yadvendra Singh. She married
Bir Bikram Kishore Debbarma, King of
Tripura State, who became king in 1923.
In 1947, her spouse died. She took control over the princely state as regent over the Council of Regency that managed the Government under the minority of prince
Kirit Bikram Manikya Bahadur Debbarma.
Her Dewan was A.B. Chatterjee. She played a pivotal role in rehabilitating refugees and victims of the violence associated with the
partition of India in the state of Tripura.
In 1948, she was forced by the Indian Government to abolish the Council of Regency and take sole control as regent.
She ruled Tripura overseeing the merger and incorporation into independent
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
. She was obliged by Indian pressure to sign the
merger agreement on 9th September 1949.
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Identity, Contestation and Development in Northeast India
' She stepped down as regent when the state was merged with India in 1949.
She founded the
MBB College in
Agartala.
References
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Regents of India
20th-century women rulers
Founders of Indian schools and colleges
People from Agartala
Indian women philanthropists
Indian philanthropists
20th-century Indian women politicians
20th-century Indian politicians
Women in Tripura politics