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Realm · approximate borders · 1581–1857

Koch Bihar

This is the western half of the Koch kingdom, from the Sankosh to the Tista, with Rangpur district. It was a Mughal vassal from 1609, and Mir Jumla occupied it in 1661–62.

It lost Rangpur, Boda and Patgram to the Mughals by 1711. Koch Bihar was reduced to roughly the later princely state. A treaty of 1773 with the Company, made to expel the Bhutanese, put it under British protection.

See Koch Bihar on the map in 1581

On the map
1581–1857
Capital
Cooch Behar

Rulers named in the sources

South Asian kingdoms, 1550–1857

From the fall of Vijayanagara's capital to the Revolt of 1857, beside the Mughal, Maratha, Durrani and British realms and a few successor states, many kingdoms ruled themselves. In the south: Travancore, Cochin, the Zamorin's Calicut, the Keladi Nayakas, the last Aravidu kings of Vijayanagara, the Nayaks of Gingee, and Mysore through the Wodeyar, Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan periods. In the Deccan and centre: the Gond kingdoms of Garha-Mandla, Deogarh and Chanda, Bastar, Ratanpur, Hyderabad after 1799, Nagpur, Satara, and the Holkar, Scindia and Gaekwad states after 1818. In the north: the Rajput kingdoms and Jat Bharatpur after the Mughal collapse, Rohilkhand, the reduced Awadh of 1803–56, Kumaon, Garhwal, Ladakh and Sikkim. In the east: the Ahom, Koch, Kachari, Jaintia, Manipur and Tripura kingdoms. In the west: Kutch and the Khanate of Kalat.

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