For the present-day district of West Bengal, see Cooch Behar District.
Former kingdom located south of Bhutan, now in West Bengal, India
Cooch Behar
1586–1949
Flag
Coat of arms
Cooch Behar and vicinity from The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1931
Capital
Kamatapur (1515–1693)
Cooch Behar (1693–1949)
History
• Established
1586
• Acceded to the Indian Union
1949
Area
1901
3,385 km2 (1,307 sq mi)
Succeeded by
West Bengal
Today part of
India Bangladesh Nepal
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Cooch Behar State
Part of History of Assam
Part of History of Bengal
Kings of Cooch Behar
Lakshmi Narayan
1586–1621
Bir Narayan
1621–1626
Pran Narayan
1626–1665
Madan Narayan
1665–1680
Basudev Narayan
1680–1682
Mahendra Narayan
1682–1693
Rup Narayan
1693–1714
Upendra Narayana
1714–1763
Debendra Narayana
1763–1765
Regent
1763–1765
Dhairjendra Narayan
1765–1770
Rajendra I Narayan
1770–1772
Pensuthma –Bhutanese Regent
1770–1772
Dharendra Narayan
1772
Bijendra Narayan
1772–1774
Dharendra Narayan
1774–1775
Dhairjendra Narayan
1775–1783
Harendra Narayan
1783–1839
Regents
1783–1801
Bajendra Narayan
1836–1839
Shivendra Narayan
1839–1847
Narendra Narayan
1847–1863
Bajendra Narayan
1847–1857
Regents
1857–1860
Nripendra Narayan
1863–1911
Regents
1863–1883
Raj Rajendra Narayan
1911–1913
Jitendra Narayan
1913–1922
Jagaddipendra Narayan
1922–1949
Cooch Behar monarchy data
Raikat (Royal family)
Cooch Behar (Capital of the kingdom)
Cooch Behar Palace (Royal residence)
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The Cooch Behar PalaceMaharaja Shri Sir Jitendra Narayan Bhup BahadurMaharani Gayatri Devi, Rajmata of Jaipur, born as Princess Gayatri Devi of Cooch Behar, with her husband Man Singh II, the last ruling Maharaja of Jaipur StateMaharani Suniti Devi
Cooch Behar, also known as Koch Bihar,[1] was a princely state in India during the British Raj.[2] The state was placed under the Bengal States Agency, part of the Eastern States Agency of the Bengal Presidency. It is located south of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, in present-day West Bengal.
Cooch Behar State was formed when the Kamata Kingdom under the Koch dynasty split following the death of Nara Narayan in 1586. The eastern portion, Koch Hajo, was soon absorbed by Ahom. The western portion, Koch Bihar, formed a separate unit that came under direct challenge by the Mughal Empire. After weathering the Mughal threat, a new foe emerged in the form of an expansionist Bhutanese kingdom. After a series of wars with the Bhutanese and Tibetans, the Northern threat was pushed back but not before a Bhutanese regent was installed in the royal court. The Koch Bihar court decided to invite British intervention. This came in the form of military assistance that—acting in concert with Koch Bihar forces—ended the Northern challenge once and for all. However the British East India Company sought guarantees whereby the independence of Koch Bihar was limited by treaties. When the British colonial rule was finally terminated in India, the Koch Bihar state immediately acceded to and merged with India in 1949 and became a part of West Bengal. The district, Cooch Behar District, is named after this erstwhile kingdom.
^"The eastern division was known as 'Kamrup' in the local sources and as 'Koch Hajo' in the Persian chronicles. The western division known as Koch Behar was known as 'Kuc' (Koch) or 'Koch Behar' in Persian chronicles, or simply as 'Behar' in the Gurucharitas." (Nath 1989, p. 86)
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