Raja Harish Chandra Rai (c. 1841[citation needed]–1885) was the 47th Raja of the Chakma Circle.

Harish Chandra Rai
Raja
Chief of the Chakma Circle
PredecessorKalindi Rani
SuccessorBhuvan Mohan Roy
Bornc. 1841
Chittagong Hill Tracts, British India
Died1885 (aged 43–44)
SpouseShourindri Dewan
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Biography

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He was the grandson of Raja Dharam Bux Khan through his daughter born of his third Rani.[citation needed]

He married Rani Shourindri Dewan of the Larma Goza (Clan or Sept).[citation needed]

His grandmother, Kalindi Rani, assisted in supplying coolie transport for the Lushai Expedition of 1871–72. In recognition of this service, the government of British India vested Harish Chandra with the title of Rao Bahadur. At her death in 1873, he became chief of the Chakmas, and the title of Raja was conferred on him the next year.[1] According to ethnographer J. P. Mills, Harish Chandra's "drunkenness, incompetency and contumacy" rendered him so ineffective a ruler that it became necessary to depose him in April 1884.[2] He died in 1885.[1]

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References

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  1. ^ a b Hutchinson, R. H. Sneyd (1907). Eastern Bengal and Assam District Gazetteers: Chittagong Hill Tracts. Allahabad: Pioneer Press. p. 25.
  2. ^ Jhala, Angma Dey (2019). An Endangered History: Indigeneity, Religion, and Politics on the Borders of India, Burma, and Bangladesh. Oxford University Press India. ISBN 978-0-19-909691-6.

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