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RAJA RANA BODHJUNG BAHADHUR
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MAJESTIC SUCCESSOR OF MAHARAJA RANA PRATAP SINGHA
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ROYAL ADMIRE OF RABINDRANATH TAGORE
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ARTICLE WRITTEN BY
ANJAN BANIK
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: EDITOR'S COMMENT :
BENGALI VERSION PUBLISHED IN 8 NEWSPAPERS
<"DAINIK SAMBAD", "SYANDAN PATRIKA", "TRIPURA DARPAN", "AAJKER FARIAD", "DAINIK AROHAN"> OF TRIPURA, INDIA
ON 18TH JANUARY 2007
ON THE OCCASION OF BODHJUNG'S BIRTH DAY 113TH CONSIDERING THE CELEBRATION OF
1st RAJA RANA BODHJUNG HERITAGE FESTIVAL 2007
ORGANISED BY
BODHJUNG SCHOOL ALUMNI
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RAJA RAM MOHAN ROY AND ISWAR CHANDRA VIDYASAGAR. THEN NOBEL LAUREATE RABINDRA NATH TEGORE. RAJA RANA BODHJUNG IS A ROYAL FIGURE RANKED WITH LEGENDS FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS THE UPGRADETION OF THE EDUCATIONAL STATUS OF TRIPURA IN ITS ANCIENT TIMINGS, WHEN HIS HIGHNESS ARE TOTALLY MOTIVATED TOWARDS ONLY THE WARs AND WINING POLICIES AND TO ARRANGE MARRIAGE WITH BABES OF MANIPUR, ESPECIALLY IN THE DAYS OF PRE-BIR CHANDRA MANIKYA ERA. AT THAT TIME, ANCIENT RULERS ARE HARDLY INTERESTED TO DEAL WITH BOW AND ARROWS INSTEAD OF ADMINISTRATION, INTERESTED TO THE BEAUTIES AND BABES BLINDLY INSTAED OF EDUCATION. RANA BODHJUNG BAHADUR IS A GENTLE MAN OF LETTER FOUGHT AGAINST THE MANNER AND NATURE OF THOSE EXPERIENCES AND ENLIGHTEN THE EDUCATIONAL STRENGHT TO UPLIFT THE STATE'S STATUS, IN THE WAY , RABINDRANATH TEGORE HAS DONE BEFORE IN HIS SANTINIKETEN, BOLPUR, WEST BENGAL, INDIA.
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1894, 18TH JANUARY.
RANA BODHJUNG BAHADHUR , WELL KNOWN AS "RAJA SHAHIB" DUE TO HIS PERSONALITY, BORN IN ALLAHABAD, UTTAR PADESH, INDIA. IN HINDUISM, WHICH HAS BEEN ASSESSED AS A PLACE OF PILGRIMAGE, KNOWN AS "PRAYAG". RAJA SHAHIB IS THE SUCCESSOR OF MAHARAJA MAHARANA PRATAP SINGHA, THE TRULY WARRIOR AND PATRIOT EMPEROR OF EASTERN INDIAN STATE " MEWAR" IN ANCIENT HISTORY. THE FORE FATHERS OF RANA BODHJUNG ARE PARTICULARLY BASED IN NEPAL. HISTORY REMINDS THAT THE 'RAJAPUTA" COMMUNITIES SHOULD BE THE THE FIRST TARGET, WHO THEN HAVE TO FACE THE STRIKE ATTACK FROM MOGHAL AND PARSSI TITANIC AGGRESSIVENESS AND CONSIDERING THAT FACT SOME OF THEM, THE RAJAPUT SONS ARE HIGHLY PERPLEXED TO LOOK RESORT IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE INDIAN SUB CONTINENT, WHEN THE ANCESTORS OF RANA BODHJUNG ARE LIVING IN A HERMITAGE OF NEPAL, THEN THE FAMILY HAS TRULY ATTACHED WITH THE POLITICISE, SOCIOLOGY, RELIGIOUS DUTIES. THE RANA FAMILY THEN BELONGS A GREAT MAJESTY, BUT TO AVOID THE FAMILY SABOTAGE, GENERAL PADMA JUNG LEFT THE ANCESTORS HERMITAGE AND CAME TO THE PLACE OF PILGRIMAGE, THE "PRAYAGA".
THE MAHARAJA OF NEPAL JUNG BAHADUR WAS THE PATERNAL GRAND FATHER OF RANA BODHJUNG AND HIS (RANA BODHJUNG) FATHER WAS GENERAL PADMA JUNG.THE PARENTAGE OF RANA BODHJUNG BAHADUR BELONGS TO THE "KSHATRIYA" - SOLAR RACE ("SURYA BANSHI") AND THE DESCENDANT OF RAJAPUTs.
RANA RAMAKRIESHNA KANWAR, RANA RANJIT BAHADUR KANWAR, RANA BALNIR KANAWAR, RANA JUNG BAHADUR KANAWAR, RANA PADMA JUNG BAHADUR - THE GLORY OF THE RANA FAMILY DEPICTED HERIDITY-WISE FOR A LONG TIME AND BECAME THE HISTORY OF ROYAL INDIAN SENEARIO.
THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE RANA FAMILY IN THE HISTORY OF NEPAL IS HIGHLY OBLIGED, BUT THAT CONTRIBUTION IN THE SECNERIO OF THE HISTORY OF ROYAL TRIPURA IS GREATER THEN THE PAST. "HEARSAY" DEPICTS, TO SOLVE THE DISPUTES IN BETWEEN MAHARAJA RADHAKISHORE AND 'BARATHAKUR' SAMARENDRANATH, GENERAL PADMA JUNG ALSO PLAYED A VITAL ROLE AND CONJUGATED A BOND BETWEEN TWO FAMILY i.e. JUNGs & MANIKYAs.
RANA BODHJUNG.
IN CHILDHOOD AGE BODHJUNG'S EDUCATION AND SCHOOLING STARTED AT ALLAHABAD, UTTAR PADESH, INDIA. THE ROYAL PRECEPTORS ARE APPOINTED AT HOME TOO, TO TEACH BODHJUNG PRIVATELY, WHICH BECAME MOST FRUITFUL TO DEVELOP HIS MENTAL STRENGHT AND STATUS.
1900 A.D.
IN THOSE DAYS THE BOND BETWEEN TWO ROYAL BLOOD ESTABLISHED, WHEN MAHARAJA RADHAKISHORE WAS IN ROYAL THRONE, WITH LOYAL SECPTRE AT UJJANTA ROYAL PALACE AS A HEAD OF THE MONARCHY OF TRIPURA. RADHAKISHORE ARRANGED WEDDING IN BETWEEN HIS SON YAVARAJ BIRENDRA KISHORE WITH PRABHABATI RANA DEVI,DAUGHTER-PRINCESS OF GENERAL PADMA JUNG. DUE TO GOOD WILL OF RADHA KISHORE, THE WEDDING CEREMONY HELD SPECIFICALLY AT THE AREA, NOW-A-DAYS WELL KNOWN AS "KHOSH-BAGAN", SITUATED AT THE HEART OF THE CAPITAL CITY. AFTER A PERIOD A BABY BORN ENLIGHTENING THE EMBRACE OF BOTH BIRENDRA KISHORE AND PRABHABATI RANA DEVI. BUT THE MOTHER'S DARLING BABY DIED VERY SHORTLY. THEN SORROWFULLY PRABHABATI RANA DEVI SECREFICEING HERSELF REQUESTED BIRENDRA KISHORE TO MARRY AGAIN WITH ARUNDHATI DEVI. 16 YERS OLD TEEN RANA BODHJUNG VISITED AGARTALA FOR THE FIRST TIME ON THAT WEDDING CEREMONY.
BODHJUNG, FROM CHILDHOOD TO TEENHOOD HE ENJOYHIS LIFE IN "PRAYAG", HIS HOMETOWN AND AFTERMATH CAME TO THE PRIENCELY CAPITAL AGARTALA OF THE ROYAL TRIPURA. THAT TIME HE STARTED STAYING WITH THE MANIKYA FAMILY, BEING THE BROTHER-IN-LAW TO BIRENDRA KISHORE.
MAHARAJA BIR BIKRAM IS THE MOTHER'S-DARLING-SON OF MAHARANI ARUNDHATI DEVI AND MANIKYA BAHADUR BIRENDRA KISHORE. ACCORDINGLY RANA BODHJUNG WAS THE METERNAL UNCLE TO BIR BIKRAM KISHORE.
1910 A.D.
RANA WAS APPOINTED AS ADC TO MAHARAJA BIRENDRA KISHORE MANIKYA UNDER THE STATE'S SERVICE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TRIPURA AND HIS WORK-LIFE STARTED THEN. IN THIS YEAR, HE WAS ALSO APPOINTED AS GOVT OFFICER ASSOCIATED TO THE ARMY CHIEF.
1915 A.D.
AFTER 5 YEARS, HE WAS APPOINTED AS TREASURER TO H.H. MAHARAJA TO ASSES MAHARAJA'S OWN FUND. RANA WORKED FOR 5 YEARS HONESTLY TOWARDS THE KINGDOM. THE LOYAL PERSONALITY RANA WAS APPOINTED AS PRIVATE SECRETARY TO MAHARAJA, THERE-AFTER i.e. 1915 AD. HE SERVE TO THE MAJESITY FAITHFULLY FOR 5 YEARS. AND AFTER THAT 26 YEARS OLD RANA TOOK THE RESPONSIBILITY TO THE FUND OF H.H. MAHARAJA'S OWN AGAIN AND STARTED SERVING. DURING THIS REGINE, THE YOUNG RANA SOLVED THE MOST APPROPRIATE ADMINISTRATIVE WORKS AND TERGETTEDTHE UPGRADATION OF THE STATUS OF THE PRINCELY STATE. HE ALSO DEPICTED HIS STRENGHT IN SLOVING AND SORTING PROBLEMS AND DISPUTES LAID IN BETWEEN MANIKYA RULERS AND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT GREATLY.
RANA WAS 5 FEET 6 INCHES IN HIGHT PHYSICALLY AVIODING HIS HIGHT BEING A SUCCESSOR OF MAHARANA PRATAP SINGHA. HE WAS A CORPULENT MAN IN BODY LANGUAGE, BUT A GENTLE MAN OF LETTER INDEED. SO, THE TAGORE DEVOTED MANIKYA RULERS , AFTER A MIND BLOWING EVOLUTION AND UPGARDETION FELICIATED AND AWARDED RANA BODHJUNG WITH THE TITLES "MANYA BARA"(MOST RESPECTED GENTLE MAN AWARD) RAJYASHABHA BHUSHAN (THE GLORY OF THE ROYAL COURT AWARD), MAHAMANYABARA (THE GREAT MAN AMONG THE MOST RESPECTED GENTLEMEN AWARD) etc.
1915A.D.
RANA SHAHIB ORGANISED HIS MARRIAGE FOR FIRST TIME OUT OF THE THREE, THAT HE DONE. HIS WIVES ARE INDIRA DEVI, HEM KUMARI DEVI, AND UJJALA DEVI (HERSELF UJJALA WAS THE SISTER OF MAHARAJA BIR BIKRAM KISHORE MANIKYA AND RANA WAS THE METERNAL UNCLE TO HER TOO). AFTER HIS MARRIAGE WITH INDIRA DEVI RANA BECAME FAMOUS AND WELL KNOWN AS "INDRA KUMER". ITS AFTER THE NAME OF HIS, NOW-A-DAYS THE NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE OF AGARTALA BECAME ESTABLISHED AS "INDRANAGAR".
RANA BODHJUNG.
RANA SHAHIB HAS FIVE SONS AND TWO DAUGHTERS. SONS ARE RANA DAHAL JUNG, RANA PURAN JUNG, RANA TIKENDRA JUNG, AND DAUGHTERS ARE VAGAWATI RANA DEVI AND POKRAJ RANA DEVI. ITS THE TRADITION THAT THE GENTLE MAN OF THE RANA FAMILY ARE TITLED "RANA" TO WRITE FIRST BEFORE THEIR NAME WITH "JUNG" TITLE WRITTEN TO BE THE END MARGINE OF THEIR NAME. WHEREAS IN FEMALE PERSONALITIES OF RANA FAMILY ONLY "RANA" MAY BE WRITTEN PERFERABLELY AT THE END OF THE CORE NAME.
1923A.D.
BIRENDRA KISHORE DIED. THE DEATH OF THE MAHARAJA HITTED THE HEART AND BROKEN.THIS IS A CRUSIAL MOMENT TO RANA. HE ALSO REALISED THEN THE ROYAL SABOTAGE TOWARDS HIM. THEN YAVARAJ BIR BIKRAM WAS TOO YOUNG TO BE MAHARAJA. SO THE ADMINISTRATION FRAMED A COUNCIL TO COUNTINUE. BUT THE FORMATION PROCCESS AVOIDED THE MAN OF LETTER. THAT'S THE MATTER SHOKED RANA TOO MUCH, BEING A LOYAL AND ROYAL. ITS A LONG PERIOD AFTER, RANA THEN RETURNED BACK TO PRAYAG, HIS FATHERLY NATIVE HOME LAND.
AFTER 5 YEARS OF DEATTCHMENT WUTH MANIKYA FAMILY, AGAIN RANA CAME BACK TO HIS WORK PLACE, AGARTALA, HONOURING THE INVITATION FROM MAHARAJA BIR BIKRAM.
1928 A.D.
ITS 1337 BS, 2 BHADRA. MAHARAJA APPOINTED RANA AS PRIVATE SECRETARY TO H.H. MAHARAJA.
1929 A.D.
MAHARAJA AGAIN APPOINTED RANA AS CHIEF SECRETARY UNDER THE STATE SERVICE CONSIDERING HIS LOYALITY TO MAHARAJA AND WORK. RANA THEN NOT ONLY BECAME A REQUIERMENT TO THE MAHARAJA TO RUN THE ADMINISTRATION , ALSO BECAME MOST ESSENTIAL TO FULFILL THE EXPECTATION OF THE PALACE AND FAMILY. IN THE COURSE OF TIME, RANA BECAME THE RIGHT HAND CUM HEART TO THE MAHARAJA. RANA WAS THE MAN CHALK OUT THE WHOLE PROGRAMME FOR MAHARAJA FROM HIS CORONATION CEREMONY TO WEDDING AND ADMINISTRATIONAL ACTIVITY. THE CREDIT GOES TO RANA SHAHIB , THAT HE ESTABLISHED A GOOD RELATIONSHIP AT THAT CRUSIAL MOMENT IN BETWEEN TRIPURA AND INDIGENIOUS STATES.
1929A.D.
MAHARAJA BIR BIKRAM FORMED A EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS AS A PART OF ADIMINISTRATIONAL REFORMS IN THE TRIPURA STATE. THERE ARE FIVE COUNSELLORS FOR THE REVISED COUNCIL. RANA HAS BEEN PLACED IN THIS CABINATE COUNCIL AS CHIEF SECRETARY WITH PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENT, DEWAN - ADMINISTRATION FOR CHAKLA ROSHNABAD, DEWAN -ADMINISTRATION FOR PALACE.
1930 A.D.
MAHARAJA BIR BIKRAM , FOR THE FIRST TIME , VISITED THE ENGLAND. AT THAT TIME RANA ACCOMPANIED MAHARAJA. RANA AND MAHARAJA GETHER A VAST EXPERIENCE ABOUT THE EDUCATIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT S IN EUROPE, WHICH FURTHER INSPIRERED RANA AND MAHARAJA TO ESTABLISH THE BODHJUNG SCHOOL.
DURING HIS ENGLAND VISIT, RANA HAS BEEN REARESTLY FELICIATED WITH THE MEMBERSHIP BY THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON TOO.
1937A.D.
THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT MEASURED THE SERVICE OF RANA SHAHIB AND FELICIATED HIM WITH THE MOST REAREST TITEL OF "RAJA". THAT IS THE TIME WHEN BRITISH RULERS ARE INDEED INTERESTED TO TAKE BACK OR TO ABOLISH ANY KIND OF ROYAL INFRASTUCTURE IN INDIA, BUT AWARDING TO RANA BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT WAS JUST OPPOSITE APPROACH TO THE BRITISH. WHICH INDICATE THE UNIMAGINABLELY GREAT HIGHT OF RANA SHAHIB IN ADMINISTRATIONAL REFORMS. THE TITEL CERTIFICATE HANDED OVER TO RANA SHAHIB IS AS STATED:-
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BRITISH GOVERNMENT
COAT OF ARM
SANAD
TO
MANYABARA RANA SAHAB
BODHJUNG BAHADUR
CHIEF SECRETARY, TRIPURA STATE
EASTERN STATES AGENCY.
I HEREBY CONFAR UPON YOU THE TITLE OF RAJA AS A PERSONAL DISTINCTION.
LINLITHGOW
VICEROY AND GOVERNOR GENERAL
OF INDIA
NEW DELHI
THE 1ST FEBRUARY, 1937
SEAL OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF INDIA
CONCIL
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RANA BODHJUNG WAS THE MAN OF STRENGHT AS GOT THE BLOOD FROM MAHARANA PRATAP SINGHA BEING A SUCCESSOR. RANA WAS THE MAN OF ADMINISTRATION AS ATTACHED WITH THE ROYAL MANIKYA FAMILY, THE ROYAL FAMILY THAT REMAIN INDEPENDENT SUPPRESSING THE AGGRESSIONAL ATTITUDE OF THE BRITISH. RANA BODHJUNG WAS ALSO A MAN OF LETTER AS GOT THE ATTACHMENT AND BLESSINGS BOTH FROM NOBLE LAUREATE GURUDEV RABINDRANATH TAGORE.
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RANA BODHJUNG VISITED ALMOST THE WHOLE GLOBE EXCEPT THE GERMANY. BUT HIS VISIT TO THE SHANTINIKETAN WITH MAHARAJA BIR BIKRAM IS EXCEPTIONAL AND HISTORIC INDEED, WHICH WAS ALSO IN PRINT IN "RABINDRANATH O TRIPURA", THE GREAT BOOK ON THE RELATIONSHIP IN BETWEEN A STATE WITH NOBLE LAUREATE, PUBLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF TRIPURA ON THE OCCASION OF THE CENTENARY CELEBRATION OF BIRTHDAY OF RABINDRANATH TAGORE. THE PAGE NO 104 RECORDED THAT, "IN 1939, 7TH JANUARY , 22TH POUSH, 1345 BANGLA, THEY REACHED SHANTINIKETAN AT NOON THROUGH CINON PASSANGER (A TRAIN), STARTED FROM HOWRAH. MAHARAJA OF TRIPURA MANIKYA BAHADUR BIR BIKRAM KISHORE WAS ACCOMPANIED BY RAJA RANA BODHJUNG AND CHIEF SECRETARY TO MAHARAJA, KUMER RAMANDRA KISHORE, Lt. YOGENDRA DEBBARMA, DR. ABINESHWAR SENGUPTA, & SHRI DIJENDRA CHANDRA DATTA- THE WRITER AND EDITOR OF THE SAID BOOK RABINDRA NATH O TRIPURA". (TRANSLATED)
1939A.D.
NO BODY KNOWS WHETHER MAHARAJA ASSESED RANA"S DEVOTION AND ATTACHMENT WITH RABINDRANATH OR NOT! BUT MAHARAJA AFTERMATH OF THE VISIT TO SHANTINIKETAN, APPOINTED RANA BODHJUNG AS THE EDUCATION MINISTER OF THE STATE TRIPURA UNDER THE STATE SERVICE. RANA'S CONTRIBUTION IN THOSE DAYS WAS TRULY REMARKABLE.
1351 TRIPURABDA.
MAHARAJA PRILIMINARILY APPOINTED HIM AS A MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF RAJYA SHABHA AND ABOVE ALL AS A CHIEF MINISTER OF TRIPURA STATE. IN HIS LAST DAYS, RANA BODHJUNG SERVED THE STATEHOOD BEING THE CHIEF MINISTER AND PLATED HIS NAME IN THE VARIOUS WORKS, IMPLEMENTED FOR PUBLIC INTEREST, SILENTLY. AVIODING JUST 5 YEARS, WHEN DUE TO MISUNDERSTANDINGS BODHJUNG RETURNED BACK TO PRAYAG, RAJA RANA BODHJUNG SERVED TOWARDS TRIPURA FOR 39 YEARS.
AT THE END OF THE DAY THERE SHOULD BE SUNSET, THAT'S ALSO A UNIVERSAL TRUTH.
ITS 18TH NOVEMBER 1946 A.D.
3RD AGRAHAYANA, 1365 TRIPURABDA, 10 A.M.
RAJA RANA BODHJUNG PASSED AWAY. HE LEFT HIS 52 YEARS LONG SERVICE, WORK , CONTRIBUTION AND FRUITFULL LIFE, DEVOTED TO THE STATE'S PEOPLE AS AN INSPIRATIONAL STATUS.
THE TRIPURA STATE GAZETTEERS ALSO NOTIFIED THIS LOSS IN ITS ARCHIVES.
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