Suniti Devi, Devee, Sunity
Suniti may refer to * Suniti Academy. Girls school in Cooch Behar, West Bengal. * Suniti Devi, Maharani of Coochbehar, India *Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Indian linguist, educationist and litterateur. *Suniti Namjoshi, poet and a fabulist. *Suniti Solomon Suniti Solomon (1938 or 1939 – 28 July 2015) was an Indian physician and microbiologist who pioneered HIV/AIDS, AIDS research and prevention in India after having diagnosed the first Indian AIDS cases among the Chennai sex workers in 1986 a ...

Suniti Academy
Sunity Academy is a higher secondary girls' school in Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India. History The school was founded in 1881 as Sunity College by His Highness, the Maharaja of Cooch Behar. It was named after Her Highness Maharani Suniti Devi, who was the brain behind its establishment. She was the daughter of Keshub Chandra Sen. The school was rechristened as Sunity Academy in 1916. In 1928, the Sunity Academy was affiliated to the University of Calcutta. However, the school is now attached to University of North Bengal since its inception in 1962. In 1937, when the representative of the Governor General of the Eastern States came to visit Sunity Academy, he was highly impressed with its management. In 2003, the erstwhile president of India, APJ Abdul Kalam visited the school. In 2004, Her Highness Gayatri Devi, the Rajmata of Jaipur and the Princess of Cooch Behar, paid a visit. In 2006, the school celebrated its 125th anniversary. Maharani Suniti Devi's second son Ma ...
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Suniti Devi
Her Highness Maharani Suniti Devi Narayan (née Sen), (30 September 1864 – 10 November 1932), was an educator, social worker, author, and the queen of the princely state of Cooch Behar, British India. Early life Suniti Devi was a daughter of the renowned Brahmo Samaj reformist, Keshub Chandra Sen of Calcutta, and Jagonmohini Sen. She was married to Nripendra Narayan (1863-1911), the Maharaja of Cooch Behar in 1878, when she was only fourteen years of age. She stayed at her father's place for two years after marriage, as Narayan left for London for higher studies immediately after their marriage. She was the mother of four sons and three daughters: sons Rajendra Narayan (b.1882), Jitendra Narayan (b.1886), Victor Nityendra Narayan (b.1888), and Hitendra Narayan (b.1890), and daughters Sukriti Devi (b.1884), Pratibha Devi (b.1891) and Sudhira Devi (b.1894).
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