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Maharaja Shri Sir Jitendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur KCSI (20 December 1886 – 20 December 1922) was the Maharaja of Cooch-Behar, India, from September 1913 until his death in December 1922.
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- Background
- An Unfortunate Betrothal
- Love at First Sight
- Gaining Parental Permission
- The Runaway Bride
- The Wedding Day
- The Aftermath
It is a period of Indian history known as the British Raj. Britain directly rules over two-thirds of the Indian subcontinent; the remaining two-fifths is divided into around 600 Native States, ruled over by native princes who swear loyalty to the British Crown. (For a proper explanation of this topic see my other article on the Indian Native States...
Indira’s defining good looks were soon noticed by several Indian princes. First among them was Madho Rao Scindia, the Maharaja of Gwalior. Gwalior, like Baroda, was one of the richest, largest, and most powerful of the Indian Native States; additionally, like the Gaekwads, the Scindias were an ancient and noble Maratha house. So, naturally, his and...
A year after Indira’s betrothal, in December 1911, all of India’s royalty and nobility gathered together in India’s new capital, Delhi, for the Delhi Durbar. The Durbar was to crown King George V as Emperor of India, the only British monarch to travel to India to do so. The crowning occasion was when all the rulers of India paid homage to the Emper...
Indira’s problem now was convincing her parents to let her marry Prince Jitendra. A great many problems laid in her and Jitendra’s way. First was religion and race. The Gaekwad and his family were of Maratha descent and strict orthodox Hindus; the Cooch Behar’s, however, practiced Brahmo Samaj, a monotheistic version of Hinduism (Maharani Suniti wa...
By now, Jitendra and Indira’s romance was common knowledge in India and Britain and eagerly followed by Britain’s tabloid newspapers, especially the Daily Mail. Readers on the morning of 5 May 1913 would have been shocked to discover that the wedding of Jitendra and Indira in Calcutta had been called off just two days before it was due to take plac...
‘The sun was shining with a brilliance almost worthy of an Indian Summer…’ This was how the Daily Mail began its coverage of the wedding of Prince Jitendra and Princess Indira on 25 August 1913. The day was split into three ceremonies. The first took place that morning in the Buckingham Palace Hotel, where Indira converted and was received into the...
Jitendra and Indira spent their honeymoon in Maidenhead, Berkshire. But, as in all great romances, the honeymoon bliss did not last long… Only three weeks after the wedding, Jitendra’s brother, Maharaja Rajendra, died of alcoholism in Cromer on England’s west coast. Jitendra and Indira were now Maharaja and Maharani of Cooch Behar and rulers of sev...
Dec 8, 2021 · Rizvi, who took a new name as Jitendra Narayan Singh Tyagi, converted to Hinduism under the guidance of Dasna Devi temple priest Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati in Ghaziabad on Monday.
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Oct 17, 2022 · NEW DELHI: The government on Monday suspended with immediate effect senior IAS officer and former chief secretary of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Jitendra Narain, accused of raping a woman in Port...
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Jitendra Narayan Singh Tyagi (born Syed Waseem Rizvi) is the former member and chairman of the Shia Central Waqf Board of Uttar Pradesh, India. He had chosen to undergo religious conversion to Hinduism on 6 December 2021.
There have been no arrests and the police case names only one man - Waseem Rizvi, a Muslim who says he has converted to Hinduism and is now known as Jitendra Narayan Tyagi.
