PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Rulers
were...
- Raja BHABANANDA, first Zamindar of Nadia.
- Maharaja RUDRA RAY (grandson) 1683/1694
- .......
- Maharaja KRISHNACHANDRA RAY 1728/1782, born 1710, son of
Raghuram Roy of
Krishnanagar, adopted by Bhabananda Majumdar, founder of the royal
family
of Krishnanagar, granted the title of Maharaja by the British for
services
rendered at Plassey, established a large Shiv temple at Shivnibash in
1762,
established many Sanskrit schools in Nadia, he was a patron of
literature
and music, married Rani Bhabani, who was also a patron of Sanskrit
culture
in Bengal, and had issue. He died 1782.
- Maharaja SIBCHANDRA RAY Bahadur (qv)
- Maharaja SIBCHANDRA RAY Bahadur 1782/1788
- .....
- Maharaja KSHITISH CHANDRA RAY Bahadur, married and had
issue.
- Maharaja KSHAUNISH CHANDRA RAY Bahadur (qv)
- Maharaja KSHAUNISH CHANDRA RAY Bahadur, born 29th October
1890 in Krishnagar
into one of the oldest aristocratic families in Bengal; educated
privately,
created Maharaja at Coronation Durbar, Delhi, 1911; made Maharaja
Bahadur,
1917. First non-official elected Chairman of Nadia District Board,
1920/1924;
Member of the Bengal Legislative Council, 1921/1923, he married
Maharani
Jyotirmoyee Devi of Cossimbazar,
and
had issue, two daughters. He died 1928.
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