Bardhaman Raj
The Bardhaman Raj (also known as Burdwan Raj) was a zamindari estate that flourished from about 1657 to 1955, first under the Mughal India and then under the British India in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent. At the peak of its prosperity in the eighteenth century, the estate extended to around 5,000 square miles (13,000 km2) of territory.
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Mehtab Chand of Burdwan, c. 1860-65
List of rulers
- Maharaja Mahtab Chand (ruled 1830s to 1870s)
- Maharaja Aftab Chand (ruled 1870s - 1880s)
- Raja Banbehari Kapoor (ruled as the Dewan of Burdwan on behalf of his son Bijay Chand) (mid 1880s-mid 1890s)
- Maharaja Sir Bijay Chand Mahtab (ruled 1887–1941) (b. 1881 – d. 1941)
- Maharaja Sir Uday Chand Mahtab (ruled 1941–55) (abdicated) (b. 1905 – d. 1984)
References
Further reading
- History of the Bengali-speaking People by Nitish Sengupta. }
- Encyclopædia Britannica entry on Burdwan
- History of Burdwan estate
- Burdwan estate in the pre-British and British eras
- Next weekend you can be at ... Burdwan
- Vijay Manzil, the estate of the Maharaja of Burdwan
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