Koch Dynasty | Kooch Behar Palace | Kamata Kingdom | Maharaja Nipendra Narayan | Archaeological

Kooch Behar, also known as Koch Bihar. Maharaja Nipendra Narayan build the Cooch Behar Palace in 1887, Cooch Behar Place is a land mark in Cooch Behar city in Kooch Behar District. It is a brick-built double-storey structure in the classical Western style covering an area of 51,309 square feet. The whole structure is 395 feet long and 296 feet wide and is on rests 4 feet 9 inches above the ground. There are various halls in the palace and rooms that include the Dressing Room, Bed Room, Drawing Room, Dining Hall, Billiard hall, Library, Toshakhana, Ladies Gallery and Vestibules. In India, a toshakhana "treasure-house" is a place where princes store gifts and emblems of honor that they received for their posterity an archive of objects whose origin and receipt embodied his status and honor.
Cooch Behar State was formed when the Kamata Kingdom under the Koch dynasty split following the death of Nara Narayan in 1586. The eastern portion, Koch Hajo, was soon absorbed by Ahom. The western portion, Koch Bihar, although nominally independent became a vassal state in turn of the Mughal Empire, of Bhutan, the British East India Company, and of the British Raj. It acceded to and merged with India in 1949 and became a part of West Bengal. The district, Cooch Behar District, is named after this erstwhile kingdom.
During the British Raj, Cooch Behar was the seat of the princely state of Koch Bihar, ruled by the Koch dynasty. After 20 August 1949, Cooch Behar District was transformed from a princely state to its present status, with the town of Cooch Behar as its headquarters. princely state specifically refers to a semi-sovereign principality on the Indian subcontinent during the British Raj that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by a local ruler.
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