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He and his father Maharaja Krushna Chandra Bhanja Deo [10] are widely acknowledged as the makers of modern Orissa. [11] The legacy include; Sriram Chandra Bhanja Memorial Fund was established in 1920 in his memory to support irrigation in Mayurbhanj . [ 12 ]
The Mayurbhanj State Railway was started by the erstwhile ruler of Mayurbhanj Maharaja Shree Rama Chandra Bhanja Deo. The first section of 52 km from Rupsa to Baripada railway station being opened for traffic on 20 January 1905.
The Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University (MSCB University), formerly known as North Orissa University (NOU), [10] [11] was founded by the Government of Orissa under Section 32 of the Odisha University Act, 1989 (Act 5 of 1989), [12] by notice No. 880 dated 13th July 1998.
The Bastar state was long ruled by the descendants of the Kakatiya dynasty until the 1920s, when King Rudra Pratap Deo's daughter and heir Rani Prafulla Kumari Devi married Prince Prafulla Chandra Bhanj Deo, who was the nephew of the King of Mayurbhanj Sriram Chandra Bhanj Deo. Their son Pravir Chandra Bhanj Deo became the first and only Bhanja ...
Pravir Chandra Bhanj Deo, King of Bastar (5 June 1929 – 25 March 1966) was the 20th Maharaja of Bastar State. [1] [2] [3] He represented the Jagdalpur Assembly constituency in the undivided Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly following the general election of 1957. He served as the King of Bastar in 1936 until his assassination in 1966. [4]
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In 1951, the Orissa Medical College was subsequently renamed as Srirama Chandra Bhanja Medical College in recognition of the donation and efforts made by Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanj Deo of Mayurbhanj State. Moreover, Maharaja Vikram Deo Verma of Jeypore State, the founding father of Andhra University also donated ₹1,30,000 to this medical ...
The Palace was home to six generations of rulers of Bhanj dynasty of Mayurbhanj since its foundation in 1804 till 1956. But after independence of India, Maharaja Pratap Chandra Bhanj Deo, the last ruler of the Bhanj dynasty, sold the palace along with the royals' bathing ghat at a throw-away price of ₹ 4.75 lakh (US$5,500) in 1956, to the government of Odisha.