Cooch Behar State
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Cooch Behar, also known as Koch Bihar, was a princely state in India during the British Raj. The state was placed under the Bengal States Agency, part of the Eastern States Agency of the Bengal Presid
Cooch Behar and vicinity from The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1931
The Cooch Behar Palace
Maharaja Sir Jitendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur
Maharani Gayatri Devi, Rajmata of Jaipur, born as Princess Gayatri Devi of Cooch Behar, with her husband Man Singh II, the last ruling Maharaja of Jaipur State
Gayatri Devi
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Gayatri Devi was the third Maharani consort of Jaipur from 1940 to 1949 through her marriage to Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II. Following her husband's signature for the Jaipur State to become part of th
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…married soon after. They had two children, Uttara Devi and Maharaja Vijendra Narayan of Cooch Behar. He died in 1951 in Darjeeling from a fire. Maharani Gayatri Devi was born on 23 May 1919 in London. She was educated at Shantiniketan, Lausanne, Switzerland, London School of Secretaries, Brilliantmont and Monkey…
Gayatri Devi in 1945
Gayatri Devi as a child
Gayatri Devi, photographed by Cecil Beaton in 1940.