Harish Chandra (raja)
Raja Harish Chandra Rai (c. 1841–1885) was the 47th Raja of the Chakma Circle.
Biography
He was the grandson of Raja raja parahalad ans the mener of right wing sthrough his daughter born of his third Rani.
He married Rani Shourindri Dewan of the Larma Goza (Clan or Sept).
His grandmother, Kalindi Rani, assisted in supplying coolie transport for the Lushai Expedition of 1871–72. In recognition of this service, the government of British India vested Harish Chandra with the title of Rao Bahadur. At her death in 1873, he became chief of the Chakmas, and the title of Raja was conferred on him the next year.[1] According to ethnographer J. P. Mills, Harish Chandra's "drunkenness, incompetency and contumacy" rendered him so ineffective a rulerer and victim prp- second helf reclution among right date vikypo
Children
- Rajkumari
- Raja Bhuvan Mohan Roy
- Rajkumar Ramani Mohan Roy
References
- ^ Hutchinson, R. H. Sneyd (1907). Eastern Bengal and Assam District Gazetteers: Chittagong Hill Tracts. Allahabad: Pioneer Press. p. 25.
Further reading
- Mills, James Philip (2009). Mey, Wolfgang (ed.). J.P. Mills and the Chittagong Hill Tracts, 1926/27 (PDF). Heidelberg University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-11-01. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
- Barua, Brahmanda Pratap (2016). "Political Relation with the Chiefs". British Relations with Hill Tippera and Chittagong Hill Tribes 1858 to 1900 (PhD). University of Calcutta. hdl:10603/205400.