THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1550–1857

Tripura (Twipra Kingdom)

The Manikya kings held the Tripura hills and the plains to the west towards the Meghna (Comilla), contesting Chittagong and Sylhet with Arakan and Bengal. The western plains (Chakla Roshnabad) came under the Mughal Bengal revenue system after 1733.

The Manikyas kept 'Hill Tipperah' as a kingdom. They held the plains estate of Chakla Roshnabad only as zamindars under Bengal and then the Company.

See Tripura (Twipra Kingdom) on the map in 1550

On the map
1550–1857
Capital
Udaipur (Rangamati); Udaipur; Agartala (from 1760)

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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