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The State of Tripura, in northeastern India, has a long history.The Twipra Kingdom at its peak included the whole eastern region of Bengal from the Brahmaputra River in the north and west, the Bay of Bengal in the south and Burma to the east during the 14th and 15th centuries AD.
The Manikya dynasty was the ruling house of the Twipra Kingdom and later the princely Tripura State, what is now the Indian state of Tripura. Ruling since the early 15th century, the dynasty at its height controlled a large swathe of the north-east of the Indian subcontinent .
Tripura State, also known as Hill Tipperah, [1] was a princely state in India during the period of the British Raj and for some two years after the departure of the British. Its rulers belonged to the Manikya dynasty and until August 1947 the state was in a subsidiary alliance , from which it was released by the Indian Independence Act 1947 .
The origin of the dynasty is uncertain, although one theory connects them to the Kalachuris of Mahishmati. By the 10th century, the Kalachuris of Tripuri had consolidated their power by raiding neighbouring territories and by fighting wars with the Gurjara-Pratiharas , the Kingdom of Bundelkhand and the Kingdom of Malwa.
Tripura Buranji 17th century Ahom chronicle. Progressive Tripura, 1930; Rajmala, royal chronicle of Tripura Kings. "Hill Tippera – History". The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1909, v. 13, p. 118. Wade, Geoffrey (1994). The Ming Shi-lu (Veritable Records of the Ming Dynasty) as a Source for Southeast Asian History -- 14th to 17th Centuries.
[4] [5] [6] They are the descendants of the inhabitants of the Twipra/Tripura Kingdom in North-East India and Bangladesh. The Tripuri people through the Manikya dynasty ruled the Kingdom of Tripura for over 600 years starting from 1400 A.D. until the kingdom joined the Indian Union on 15 October 1949. [7] The Tipra Dynasty was established in ...
Tripura monarchy data; Manikya dynasty (Royal family) Agartala (Capital of the kingdom) Ujjayanta Palace (Royal residence) Pushbanta Palace (Royal residence) Neermahal (Royal residence) Rajmala (Royal chronicle) Tripura Buranji (Chronicle) Chaturdasa Devata (Family deities)
Assisted by his generals Ray Kachag and Ray Kacham, Dhanya Manikya expanded Tripura's territorial domain well into Eastern Bengal establishing control over entire Comilla district and parts of Sylhet, Noakhali and Chittagong districts of Bangladesh. [2] Dhanya Manikya set up many temples the foremost among which is the Tripura Sundari Temple in ...