Royalty of the Indian sub-continent

[jessmacleod]

There's so much interesting information in here, and some is so sad !!

[HereditaryPrincess]

Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar, who has died of a heart attack aged 60, was the last scion of the Wadiyar dynasty that ruled the south Indian kingdom of Mysore between 1399 and Independence.
The Indian Constitution continued to recognise his father as the Maharaja of Mysore until 1971, when Indira Gandhi abolished the titles and allowances of more than 560 maharajas. But many people continued to use the honorific title, addressing Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar as maharaja after he succeeded in 1974.
While his ancestors reportedly buried troublesome subjects up to their necks in the public square and coaxed elephants to crush their heads, Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar devoted his energies to more peaceful pastimes as an MP, hotelier, educationist and fashion designer, while striving to restore his family’s many palaces to their former glory.

Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar - obituary - Telegraph

[sancakli70]

Anyone informations aber the princely state of kotwara?

[Gualbert]

Good evening,

Who are the 2 Indian princes, in this photo ?
The photo was taken in France, in the 1950's.
If you know who they are, you can send me an email at : sdemaret@yahoo.fr

Thank you very much.

Regards from Paris.

Gualbert

[jessicawatson]

Gayatri Devi, often as Maharani Gayatri Devi, Rajmata of Jaipur, was born as Princess Gayatri Devi of Cooch Behar. She was the third Maharani of Jaipur from 1939 to 1970 through her marriage to HH Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II...




Some more Indian traditional Outfits from ... lehenga saree online

Royal Wedding...

[wyevale]

Royal Wedding (Patiala-1933) on Vimeo

[sancakli70]

DC at 75 Special: A princess remembers | Deccan Chronicle
Princess esras live with beautiful Fotos.
Princess Esra was the wife of the last nizam of hyderabad

[Al_bina]

March 2015

Prince Jaideepsinh Jadeja of Rajkot, the Crown Prince of Rajkot, Gujerat, married Princess Shivatmika Kumari of Dungarpur at Bangalore Palace, Bangalore (Bengaluru), the State Capital of Karnataka.

Starting at 11:16, one can see Rajmohan Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's grandson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVrAGYxwnAU

[eya]

https://t.co/uKSMbqTbPn


Wedding rituals begin at Mysuru palace

"“The Fairytale Turned Nightmare?” reads the headline of the New York Times from May 1981 referencing to a lesser known American woman who married into a royal family. That woman was Hope Cooke."

https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/...im-hope-cooke/

[Al_bina]

Princess Mriganka Singh of the erstwhile family of Jammu Kashmir and Prince Nirvan Singh of Patilala royal family are engaged to be married. The wedding ceremony will take place in August 2016.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEJzjz5r...ncess.mriganka

https://www.instagram.com/princess.mriganka/

[Al_bina]

Karen Knorr's photos of Indian royal palaces

India Song | Karen Knorr

[Bine221]

Originally Posted by Al_bina

Karen Knorr's photos of Indian royal palaces

India Song | Karen Knorr

Wundervolle Fotos - mit den Tieren als Hauptpersonen - beeindruckend!
BYe Bine

[Shikha Pal]

Originally Posted by Bine221

Wundervolle Fotos - mit den Tieren als Hauptpersonen - beeindruckend!
BYe Bine

Indian places like Rajasthan, Delhi, Hyderabad and Mysore have some of the most beautiful palaces in the subcontinent

[iceflower]

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Princesses Diya Kumari, Padmini Devi and Maharaja Sawai Padmanabh Singh of Jaipur participated in the 'Holika Dehan' Festival in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India yesterday, March 1, 2018:


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[iceflower]

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Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil attended the Amsterdam Gay Pride Canal Parade 2018 as part of the Pride Amsterdam events today, August 4:


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[jmack21]

Former Punjab Chief Secretary Hardev Singh Chhina (98) died on Sunday August 18th at 9am in Chandigarh.

He is survived by son Paramdev Singh Chhina, former Additional Advocate General of Punjab, and daughters Guninder C Mumick, Parveen Kaur, Jatinder Cheema and Neenu Manshahia.

Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh condoled the demise of Chhina, who was married to Naresh Inder Kumari, daughter of Raja Birinder Singh of Patiala. The latter was a step-brother of Maharaja Bhupinder Singh, grandfather of Capt Amarinder.

The Chief Minister described Chhina as an able administrator, a distinguished civil servant and a gentleman bureaucrat.

The 1950-batch IAS officer was an alumnus of Aitchison College, Lahore. He served as the Commissioner of the Punjab Hill Area; Secretary, Vigilance; Chairman, Punjab Financial Corporation; Financial Commissioner, Revenue; and Finance Secretary. Chhina was elevated as the Chief Secretary in 1974.

The cremation will take place in Chandigarh on Monday August 20th.


https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/pu...98/639226.html

[iceflower]

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Jaipur Princess Diya Kumari attended the Fag Mahotsav celebration at the historical Govind Dev Ji Temple ahead the Holi Festival in Jaipur yesterday, March 16:


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Princess Gauravi Kumari of Jaipur attended the Alan Faena cocktail party as part of the New York Fashion Week yesterday, September 5:


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[alieffendi]

Hi there, My father's maternal grandad belongs to the Pashtun tribe of Balailzai(Panni). This tribe ruled Carnatic, Arcot and Kurnool.

[Emir]

The Chittagong Hill Tracts are home to a group of indigenous ethnicities, collectively known as the Jumma. The major ethnicities are the Chakma and Marma who are Buddhist. There are other ethnicities like the Tripuri, Bawm, Lushai, Mru, Chak, Pankho, Tanchangya and Khumi. Some are Hindu with smaller Catholic and Protestant minorities among the smaller ethnicities.

There are three monarchies among the Jumma. They are the Chakma Circle, Bohmong Circle and Mong Circle, each of them led by a hereditary Raja (King).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakma_Circle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohmong_Circle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mong_Circle

These three monarchies were recognized by British India as among the princely states and were promised independence by the British before partition of India. The Chittagong Hill Tracts were 97% Jumma Buddhist in 1947 upon parition. Instead, when India was partitioned, the British assigned the Chittagong Hill Tracts to East Pakistan. Pakistan was a state that was specifically supposed to be created for Muslim majority regions only and the Chittagong Hill Tracts was wrongly assigned to East Pakistan for entirely facetious reasons.

Under Pakistani rule, some settlement happened and the Jummas were down to 90% of the Chittagong Hill Tracts by 1971 when East Pakistan became independent as Bangladesh.

The construction of Kaptai Dam from 1957-1962 resulted in the Chakma King's palace being flooded and Chakma refugees forced to flee to India as their land was submerged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaptai_Dam

After independence of Bangladesh the new Bangladeshi government refused to recognize the Jummas rights and instead insisted the Awami League (considered the "liberal" and "moderate" party) they assimilate into Bangladeshi identity. In 1977, under the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Bangladesh started mass colonization of the Chittagong Hill Tracts with hundreds of thousands of Bengali Muslim settlers from the lowlands and a genocidal campaign of massacres and rape against Jummas along with destruction of Buddhist temples, Hindu temples and Christian Churches in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.

Now Jummas have been reduced to 35% of the population of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Bengali Muslims are 65% of the Chittagong Hill Tract's population. Jumma Buddhists make up 34% of the population while Jumma Hindus, Catholics and Protestants make up 1% of the population.

A war raged between 1977-1997 between the Jumma Shanti Bahini (Peace Force) and the Bangladeshi army and settlers with major massacres and rapes committed by the Bangladeshi army and settlers against the Jummas.

Awami League returned to power in 1996 and negotiated the Chittagong Hill Tracts accord in 1997 to end the war. But the Bangladeshi army under the "liberal" Awami League has just continued the killings and rapes like the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jamiat e Islamist (Islamist party) supported. All three parties, the liberal Awami League, right wing Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jamiat e Islami supported the murders and rapes against Jummas. The Awami League government has not fulfilled the Chittagong Hill Tracts accord with massive communal attacks, murders and rapes against Jummas by the army and settlers continuing to this day.

https://www.survivalinternational.org/news/11704

https://www.survival.es/news/tribes/jummas

https://www.survival.es/actnow/writealetter/jummas

https://survivalbrasil.org/news/trib...mas?id=&page=3

https://www.facebook.com/video/embed...53758553741553


www.youtube.com/embed/-mglUKV97KY


The Chakma Queen herself was violently assaulted and injured severely by Bangladeshi army personnel after protests over rapes of Jumma women by Bengali settlers.

https://twitter.com/BayintNaung9/sta...05809457381376

https://twitter.com/spinachcharm/sta...88743103758337

https://twitter.com/chtdecolonized/s...84527090966528

https://twitter.com/pragnajuic/statu...49397080178689

There are graphic photos here of Bangladeshi army crimes including the murder and rape of children.

https://twitter.com/ChatuyRk2

This is a facebook page of the Chakma royal family.

https://www.facebook.com/chakmarajas/

This is the account of the Chakma Crown Prince Aryadev Roy Chakma

https://twitter.com/azolarjo

Please help raise awareness of the genocide Bangladesh is committing against the Jumma.

This is a list of links and sources and a summary you people can use.

https://justpaste.it/28axj

In the Chittagong Hill Tracts the British had listened to the locals before 1947 and banned Bengali migration. But in Assam state, the British did not listen to the locals and imported Bengali Muslims and Bengali Hindus who now have colonized large parts of Assam. The Assamese Hindus and Assamese Muslims now want to evict the Bengali Hindus and Bengali Muslims but the Bengali Muslims are spreading false propaganda about the situation claiming that all Muslims are being rounded up and stripped of citizenship for being Muslims. Please correct the misinformation if you ever hear about it. Tripura state was overrun by Bengali Hindus fleeing East Pakistan in 1947 so the native Tripuri Hindus are now a minority. Another unfortunate situation due to partition.