1850.] or Chronicles of Tripur a. 555 



him also at the Nawab' s Court, but he went in person to the Nawab 

 promising to pay the arrears ; he obtained a certificate of his profi- 

 ciency in the Persian language. He died after a reign of four years. 



Bijaya Manik was appointed Raja by the Nawab with a salary of 

 12,000 Rs. monthly, on the stipulation of sending all the revenue to 

 Murshidabad— but falling into arrears he was sent prisoner to the 

 capital, where he died in confinement some time after. Samsher Jang 

 obtained the government and agreed to pay the revenue without any 

 delay, but the people not recognising him as the legitimate heir, he 

 then installed as Raja, one of the Tripura family, who resided at 

 Sonargan, but they still refused ; a battle was fought in which Shamsher 

 was victorious ; he governed for twelve years with such cruelty and 

 caused such loud complaints to be raised on account of his atrocities 

 that the Nawab had him seized and blown from the mouth of a gun. 

 Kishen Manik succeeded. The Dewan of the Nawab collected all 

 his forces at Chittagan and advanced against the Raja of Tripura who 

 was defeated at Kasba. He soon after died. 



After an interregnum of five years in consequence of disputes as to 

 who should succeed, in which the Kukis were called in by one party 

 as combatants, Durga Manik, the Jubaraja, received from the English 

 government the Khelat as Raja in 1808; after four years he pro- 

 ceeded with his family on a pilgrimage to Benares, Prayag ; while on 

 his way to Gaya he died near Patna and was burned on the banks 

 of the Ganges. His late rival Rama Ganga was appointed by the 

 English Goverment Raja according to the Tripura laws of succession, 

 though several of his rivals disputed his title by force, the Kyphangs 

 aided one party, but the English soon decided the difficulty. The 

 Raja sent presents to the Governor General, and on the occasion of his 

 installation gave a magnificent feast ; he applied himself then to reli- 

 gious duties, having built a temple at Brindaban at an expense of 

 24,000 rupees. He erected a temple to /Siva at Ganga Sagar, cleared 

 out the tank there, and gave the rent of several villages for supplying 

 the fourteen gods on that island with boiled rice ; the Kukis revolted 

 but were subdued, and consented to pay their usual tribute of coins 

 and ivory. In 1822, the people of Haramba submitted to the English 

 Government, having been previously very much oppressed by the 

 Burmese. 



