UNDER DEVELOPMENT

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MAJESTIC SUCCESSOR OF MAHARAJA RANA PRATAP SINGHA

A TEGORE TEACHED PERSONALITY

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ARTICLE WRITTEN BY

ANJAN BANIK

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BANGALI VERSION PUBLISH IN 8 NEWSPAPERS OF TRIPURA, INDIA

ON 18TH JANUARY 2007

ON THE OCCASION OF BODHJUNG'S BIRTH DAY 113TH.

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RAJA RAM MOHOHAN ROY AND ISWAR CHANDRA VIDYTASAGAR. THEN NOBEL LAUREATE RABINDRA NATH TEGORE. RAJA RANA BODHJUNG IS A RIYAL FIGURE RANKED WITH LEGANDS FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS THE UPGRADETION OF THE EDUCATIONAL STATUS OF TRIPURA IN ITS ANCIENT TIMIINGS, WHEN HIS HIGHNESS ARE TOTALLY MOTIVATIED TOWARDS ONLY THE WARs AND WINING POLICIES AND TO ARRANGE MARRIAGE WITH BABES OF MANIPUR, ESPECIALLY IN THE DAYS OF PRE-BIR CHANDRA MANIKYA ERA. AT THAT TIME, ANCIENT RULERS ARE HEARTLY INTERESTED TO DEAL WITH BOW AND ARROWS INSTED OF ADMINISTRETION, INTERESTED TO TO BEAUTIES AND BABES BLINDLY INSTED OF EDUCATION . RANA BODHJUNG IS A GENTLE MAN OF LETTRER FOUGHT AGAINST THE MANNER AND NATURE OF THOSE EXPERIENCES AND ENLIGHTEN THE EDUCATIONAL STRENGHT TO UPLIFT THE STATES STATUS, IN THE WAY , RABINDRA NATH TEGORE HAS DONE BEFORE IN HIS SANTINIKETEN, BOLPUR, WEST BENGAL, INDIA.

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picture of HH JUNG BAHADUR RANA (not confirmed/ under developed)

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1894, 18TH JANUARY.

RANA BODHJUNG BAHADHUR , WELL KNOWN AS RAJA SHAHIB DUE TO HIS PERSONALITY, BORN IN ALLAHABAD, UTTAR PADESH, INDIA. IN HINDUTYA, WHICH NIS ASSESED AS A PALACE OF PILGRIMAGE, KNOWN AS PRAYAG. RAJA SHAHIB IS THE SUCCESSOR OF MAHARAJA RANA PRATAP SINGHA, THE TRULY WARRIOR AND PATRIOT EMPERIOPR OF EASTERN INDIAN STAE " MEWAR" IN ANCIENT HISTORY. THE FORE FATHER S OF RANA BODHJUNG ARE PARTICULERLY based IN NEPAL. HISTORY STATES THAT THE 'RAJAPUTA" COMMUNITES SHOULD BE THE THE FIREST TARGET, WHO THEN HAVE TO FACE THE STRIKE ATTACK FROM MOGHAL AND PARSSI TAITANIC AGGRESSIVENESS AND CONSIDERING THAT FACT SOME OF THEM, THE RAJAPUT SONS AREHIGHLY PERPLEXED TO LOOK RESORT IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE INDIAN SUB CONTINENT, WHEN THE ANCESTORS OF RANA BODHJUNG ARE LIVIING IN A HERMITAGE OF NEPAL. THEN THE FAMILY HAVE TRULY ATTACHED WITH THE POLITICES, SOCIOLOGY, RELIGIOUS DUTIES. THE RANA FAMILY THEN BELONGS A GREAT MAJESTY, BUT TO AVIOD THE FAMILY SABOTAGE, GENERAL PADMA JUNG LEFT THE ANCESTORS HEMITAGE AND CAME TO THE PLACE OF PILGRIMAGE, THE PRAYAGA.

THE MAHARAJA OF NEPAL JUNG BAHADUR WAS THE PATERNAL GRAND FATHER OF BODHJUNG AND HIS FATHER WAS GENERAL PADMA JUNG.THE PARENTAGE OF RANA BODHJUNG BAHADUR BELONGS TO THE KSHATRIYA - SOLAR RACE (SURYA BANSHI) AND THE DESCENDENT OF RAJAPUTAs.

RANA RAMAKRIESHNA KANWAR, RANA RANJIT BAHADUR KANWAR, RANA BALNIR KANAWAR, RANA JUNG BAHADUR KANAWAR, RANA PADMA JUNG BAHADUR - THE GLORY OF THE RANA FAMILY DEPICTED HERIDITY WISE FOR A LONG TIMEAND BECAME THE HISTORY OF ROYAL INDIAN SECNARIO.

THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE RANA FAMILY IN THE HISTORY OF NEPAL IS HIGHLY OBLIGED, BUT THAT CONTRIBUTIONIN THE SECNARIOOF THE HISTORYOF ROYAL TRIOPURA IS GREATER THEN THE PAST. HEARSAY DEPICTS, TO SOLVE THE DISPUTE IN BETWEEN MAHARAJA RADHAKISHORE AND 'BARATHAKUR' SAMARENDRA NATH, GENERAL PADMA JUNG ALSO PLAYED A VITAL ROLE AND CONJUGATED A BOND BETWEEN TWO FAMILY i.e. JUNGs & MANIKYAs.

IN CHILDHOOD AGE BODHJUNG'S EDUCATION AND SCHOOLING STARTED AT ALLAHABAD, UTTAR PADESH, INDI. THE ROYAL PRECEPTORS ARE APPOINTED AT HOME TOO, TO TEACH BODHJUNG PRIVCATELY, WHICH BECAME MOST FRUITFUL TO DEVELOP HIS MENTAL STRENGHT AND STATUS.

1900 AD.

IN THOSE DAYS THE BOND BETWEEN TWO ROYAL BLOOD ESTABLISHED, WHEN MAHARAJA RADHAKISHORE WAS IN ROYAL THRONE, THE HEAD OF THE STATE TRIPURA, PALACE-UJJAYANTA, FORM WHICH THE BODHJUNG GROWEN AWAY. RADHAKISHORE ARRANG WEDDING IN BETWEEN HIS SON YAVARAJ BIRENDRA KISHORE WITH PRABHABATI RANA DEVI,PRINCESS OF GENERAL PADMA JUNG.

DUE TO GOOD WILL OF RADHA THE WEDDING CEREMONY HELD SPECIFICALLY AT THE AREA, NOWADAYS WELL KNOWN AS KHOSH-BAGAN, SITUATED AT THE HEART OF THE CAPITAL CITY. AFTEER A PERIOD A BABY BORN ENLIGHTENING THE EMBRACE OF BITH BIRENDRA KISHORE AND PRABHABATI RANA DEVI. BUT THE MOTHER'S DARLING BABY DIED VERY SHORTLY. THEN SORROWFULLY PRABHABATI RANA DEVI SECREFICEING HERSELF REQUESTED BIRENDRA KISHORE TO MARRY WITH ARUNDHATI DEVI. 16 YERS OLD TEEN RANA BODHJUNG VISITED AGARTALA FOR THE FIRST TIME ON THAT WEDDING CEREMONY.

BODHJUNG, FROM CHILDHOOD TO TEENHOOD CAME TO THE PRIENCELY CAPITAL AGARTALA, TRIPURA. THAT TIME HE STARTED STAYING WITH THE MANIKYA FAMILY, BEING THE BROTHER-IN-LAW TO BIRENDRA KISHORE.

MAHARAJA BIR BIKRAM IS THE MOTHER'S-DERLING-SON OF MAHARANI ARUNDHATI DEVI AND MANIKYA BAHADUR BIRENDRA KISHORE. ACCORDINGLY RANA BODHJUNG WAS THE METERNAL UNCLE TO BIR BIKRAM.

1910 AD.

RANA WAS APPOINTED AS ADC TO MAHARAJA BIRENDRA KISHORE MANIKYA UNDER THE STAE'S SERVICE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TRIPURA AND HIS WORK LIFE VSTARTED THEN. IN THIS YEAR, HE WAS ALSO APPOINTED AS GOVT OFFICER WITH ARMY CHIEF.

1915 AD

AFTER 5 YEARS, HE WAS APPOINTED AS TREASURER TO H.E. MAHARAJA TO ASSES MAHARAJA'S OWN FUND. RANA WORKED FOR 5YEARS HONESTLY TOWARDS THE KINGDOM. THE LOYAL PERSONALITY RANA WAS APPOINTED AS PRIVATE SECRETARY TO MAHARAJA, THEREAFTER i.e. 1915 AD. HE SERVE TO THE MAJESITY FAITHFULLY FOR 5 YEARS. AND AFTER THAT 26 YEARS OLD RANA TOOK THE RESPONSIBILITY TO THE FUND OF H.E. MAHARAJA'S OWN.AND STARTED SERVING. DURING THIS REGINE, THE YOUNG RANA SOLVED THE MOST APPROPRIATE ADMINISTRATIVE WORKS AND TERGETTEDTHE UPGRADATION OF THE STATUS OF THE STATE. HE ALSO DEPICTED HIS STRENGHT IN SLOVING AND SORTING PROVLEMS AND DISPUTES LAID IN BETWEEN MANIKYA RULERS AND THE BRITISH GOVT.

RANA WAS 5 FEET 6 INCHES IN HIGHT PHYSICALLY AVIODING HIS HIGHT BEING A SUCCESSOR OF MAHARANA PRATAP SINGHA. HE WAS A CORPULENT MAN IN BODY LANGUAGE. BUT A GENTLE MAN OF LETTER. SO, THE TEGORE DEVOTED MANIKYA RULERS , AFTER A MIND BLOWING EVOLUTION AND UPGARDATION FELICIATED AND AWARDED RANA BODHJUNG WITH THE TITLES "MANYA BARA"(MOST RESPECTED GENTLE MAN AWARD) etc.

1915AD.

RANA SHAHIB ORGANISED HIS MARRIAGE FOR THREE TIMES. HIS WIVES ARE INDIRA DEVI, HEM KUMARI DEVI, AND UJJALA DEVI (HERSELF UJJALA WAS THE SISTER OF MAHARAJA BIR BIKRAM KISHORE MANIKYA AND RANA WAS THE METERNAL UNCLE TO HER TOO). AFTER HIS MARRIAGE WITH INDIRA DEVI RANA BECAME FAMOUS AND WELL KNOWN AS INDRA KUMER. ITS AFTER THE NAME OF HIS, NOW-A-DAYS THE NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE OF AGARTALA BECAME ESTABLISHED AS INDRANAGAR.

RANA BODHJUNG.

RANA SHAHIB HAS FIVE SONS AND TWO DAUGHTERS. SONS ARE RANA DAHAL JUNG, RANA PURAN JUNG, RANA TIKENDRA JUNG, AND DAUGHTERS ARE VAGAWATI RANA DEVI AND POKRAJ RANA DEVI. ITS THE TRADITION THAT THE GENTLE MAN OF THE RANA FAMILY ARE TITLED "RANA" TO WRITE FIRST BEFORE THEIR NAME WITH "JUNG"TITLE WRITTEN TO BE THE END MARGINE OF THEIR NAME. WHEREAS IN FEMALE PERSONALITIES OF RANA FAMILY ONLY "RANA" MAY BE WRITTEN PERFERABLELY AT THE END OF YHE CORE NAME.

1923AD

BIRENDRA KISHORE DIED. THE DEATH OF THEB MAHASRAJA HITTED THE HEART AND BROKEN.THIS IS A CRUSIAL MOMENT TO RANA. HE REALISED THE ROYAL SABOTAGE TOWARDS HIM. THEN YAVARAJ BIR BIKRAM WAS TO YOUNG TO BE MAHARAJA. SO THE ADMINISTERTION FRAMED A COUNCIL TO COUNTUE. BUT THE FORMATION PROCCESS AVOIDED THE MAN OF LETTER. THAT'S THE MATTER SHOKED RANA TOO MUCH BEING A LOYAL AND ROYAL. ITS A LONG PERIOD AFTER, RANA THEN RETURNED BACK TO PRAYAG, HIS FATHERLY NATIVE HOME LAND.

AFTER 5 YEARS OF DEATTCHMENT WUTH MANIKYA FAMILY, AGAIN RANA CAME BACK TO HIS WORK PLACC, AGARTALA, HONOURING THE INVITATION FROM MAHARAJA BIR BIKRAM.

1928 AD

ITS 1337 BS, 2 BHADRA. MAHARAJA APPOINTED RANA AS PRIVATE SECRETARY TO H.E. MAHARAJA.

1929 AD.

MAHARAJA AGAIN APPOINTED RANA AS CHIEF SECRETARY UNDER THE STATE SERVICE CONSIDERING HIS LOYALITY TO MAHARAJA AND WORK. RANA THEN NOT ONLY BECAME A REQUIERMENT TO THE MAHARAJA TO RUN THE ADMINISTRATION , ALSO BECAME MOST ESSENTIAL TO FUL FILL THE EXPECTATION OF THE PALACE AND FAMILY. IN THE COURSE OF TIME, RANA BECAME THE RIGHT HAND CUM HEART TO YTHE MAHARAJA. RANA WAS THE MAN CHALK OUT THGE WHOLE PROGRAMME FOR MAHARAJA FROM HIS CORONATION CEREMONY TO WEDDING AND ADMINISTRATIONAL ACTIVITYTHE CREDIT GOES TO RANA SHAHIB , THAT HE ESTABLISHED A GOOD RELATIONSHIP AT THAT CRUSIAL MOMENT IN BETWEEN TRIPURA AND INDIGENIOUS STATES.

1929AD.

MAHARAJA BIR BIKRAM FORMED A EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS AS A PART OF ADIMINISTRATION REFORMS IN THE TRIPUTRA STATE. THERE ARE FIVE COUNCILERS IN THE REVISED COUNCIL. RANA HAS BEEN PLACED IN THIS CABINATE COUNCIL AS CHIEF SECRETARY WIYH PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENT, DEWAN - ADMINISTRATION FOR CHAKLA ROSHNABAD, DEWAN -ADMINISTRATION FOR PALACE.

1930 AD.

MAHARAJA BIR BIKRAM , FOR THE FIRST TIME , VISITED THE ENGLAND. AT THAT TIME RANA ACCOMPANIED MAHARAJA. RANA AND MAHARAJA GETHER A VAST EXPERIENCE ABOUT THE EDUCATIONAL AND INDUSTIAL DEVELOPMENT S IN EUROPE, WHICH FURTHER INSPIRERED RANA AND MAHARAJA TO ESTABLISH THE BODHJUNG SCHOOL.

DURING HIS ENGLAND VISIT, RANA HAS BEEN REARESTLY FELICIATED WITH THE MEMBERSHIP BY THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.

1937AD.

THE BROTISH GOVERNMENT MEASURED THE SERVICE OF RANA SHAHIB AND FELICIATED HIM WITH THE MOST REAREST TITEL OF "RAJA". THAT IS THE TIME WHEN BRITISH RULERS ARE INDEED INTEREST ED TO TAKE BACK OR TO ABOLISH ANY KIND OF ROYAL INFRASTUCTURE IN INDIA, BUT AWARDING TO RANA WAS JUST OPPOSITE APPROACH TO THE BRITISH. WHICH INDICATE THE HIGHT OF RANA SHAHIB IN ADMINISTRATIONAL REFORMS. THE TITEL CERTIFICATE HANDED OVER TO RANA SHAHIB IS AS STATED:-

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RANA BODHJUNG WAS THE MAN OF STRENGHT AS GOT THE BLOOD FROM MAHARANA PRATAP SINGHA BEING A SUCCESSOR. RANA WAS THE MAN OF ADMINISTRATION AS ATTACHED WITH THE ROYAL MANIKYA FAMILY. THE ROYAL FAMILY THAT REMAIN INDEPENDENT SUPPRESSING THE AGGRESSIONAL ATTITUDE OF THE BRITISH. RANA BODHJUNG WAS ALSO AMAN OF LETTER AS GOT THE ATTACHMENT AND BLESSINGS BIOTH FROM NOBLE LAUREATE GURUDEV RABINDRANATH TAGORE.

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RANA BODHJUNG VISITED ALMOST THE WHOLE GLOBE EXCEPT THE GERMANY. BUT HIS VISIT TO THE SHANTINIKETAN WITH MAHARAJA BIR BIKRAM IS EXCEPTIONAL AND HISTORIC INDEED, WHICH WAS ALSO IN PRINT IN "RABINDRA NATH O TRIPURA". THE PAGE NO 104 RECORDED THAT, "IN 1939, 7TH JANUARY , 22POUSH, 1345 BANGLA, THEY REACHED SHANTINIKETAN AT NOON THROUGJH CINON PASSANGER , STARTED FROM HOWRAH. MAHARAJA OF TRIPURA MANIKYA BAHADUR BIR BIKRAM KISHORE WAS ACCOMPANIED BY RAJA RANA BODHJUNG AND CHIEF SECRETARY TO MAHARAJA, KUMER RAMANDRA KISHORE, Lt. YOGENDRA DEBBARMA, DR. ABINESHWAR SENGUOPTA, & SHRI DIJENDRA CHANDRA DATTA- THE WRITER AND EDITOR OF THE SAID BOOK RABINDRA NATH O TRIPURA". (TRANSLATED)

1939AD.

NO BODY KNOWS WHEATHER MAHARAJA ASSESED RANA"S DEVOTION AND ATTACHMENT WITH RABINDRANATH OR NOT. BUT MAHARAJA AFTERMATH OF THE VISIT TO SHANTINIKETAN, APPOINTED RANA BODHJUNG AS THE EDUCATION MINISTER OF THE STATE TRIPURA UNDER THE STATE SERVICE. RANA'S CONTRIBUTION IN THOSE DAYS WAS TRULY REMARKABLE.

1351 TRIPURABDA.

MAHARAJA PRILIMINARILY APPOINTED HIM AS AMEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF RAJYA SHABHA AND ABOVE ALL AS A CHIEF MINISTER OF TRIPURA STATE. IN HIS LAST DAYS, RANA BODHJUNG SERVED THE STATEHOOD BEING THE CHIEF MINISTER AND PLATED HIS NAME IN THE VARIOUS WORKES, IMPLEMENTED FOR PUBLIC INTEREST ED , SILENTLY. AVIODING JUST 5 YEARS, WHEN DUE TO MISUNDERSTANDINGS BODHJUNG RETURNED BACK TO PRAYAG, RANA BODHJUNG SERVED TOWARDS TRIPURA FOR 39 YEARS.

AT THE END OF THE DAY THERE SHOULD BE SUNSET, THAT'S ALSO A UNIVERSAL TRUTH.

ITS 18TH NOVEMBER 1946AD.

3RD AGRAHAYANA, 1365 TRIPURABDA, 10 AM.

RAJA RANA BIODHJUNG PASSED AWAY. HE LEFT HIS 52 YEARS CLONG WORK , CONTRIBUTION AND FRUITFULL LIFE, DEVOTED TO THE STATES PEOPLE AS AN INSPIRATIONAL STATUS.

THE TRIPURA STATE GEZEET ALSO NOTIFIED THIS LOSS IN ITS ARCHIVES.

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