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HILL TIPPERA, or TRIPURA

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 469 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HILL See also:TIPPERA, or TRIPURA ,, a native See also:state of See also:India, adjoining the See also:British See also:district of Tippera, in Eastern See also:Bengal and See also:Assam. See also:Area, 4086 sq. m.; pop. (rows) 173,325; estimated See also:revenue, £55,000. Six parallel ranges of hill See also:cross it from See also:north to See also:south, at an See also:average distance of 12 M. apart. The hills are covered for the most See also:part with See also:bamboo See also:jungle, while the See also:low ground abounds with trees of various kinds, canebrakes and swamps. The See also:principal See also:crop and See also:food See also:staple is See also:rice. The other articles of produce are See also:cotton, chillies and vegetables. The See also:chief exports are cotton, See also:timber, oilseeds, bamboo canes, thatching-grass and firewood, on all of which tolls are levied. The chief See also:rivers are the See also:Gumti, Haora, Khoyai, Dulai, Manu and Fenny (Pheni). During the heavy rains the See also:people in the plains use boats as almost the See also:sole means of See also:conveyance. The See also:history of the state includes two distinct periods—the traditional See also:period described in the Rajmala, or " See also:Chronicles of the See also:Kings of Tippera," and the period since A.D. 1407.

The Rajmala is a history in See also:

Bengali See also:verse, compiled by the Brahmans of the See also:court of Tripura. In the See also:early history of the state, the rajas were in a state of chronic See also:feud with all the neighbouring countries. The See also:worship of See also:Siva was here, as elsewhere in India, associated with the practice of human See also:sacrifice, and in no part of India were more victims offered. It was not until the beginning of the 17th See also:century that the Moguls obtained any footing in this See also:country. When the See also:East India See also:Company obtained the diwani or See also:financial See also:administration of Bengal in 1765, so much of Tippera as had been placed on the Mahornmedan See also:rent-See also:roll came under British See also:rule. Sine 18o8, each successive ruler has received See also:investiture from the British See also:government. In See also:October 1905 the state was attached to the new See also:province of Eastern Bengal and Assam. It has a See also:chronological era of its own, adopted by See also:Raja Birraj, from whom the See also:present raja is 93rd in descent. The See also:year 1875 corresponded with 1285 of the Tippera era. Besides being the ruler of Hill Tippera, the raja holds an See also:estate in the British district of Tippera, called chakla Roshnabad, which is far the most valuable of his possessions. The See also:capital is Agartala (pop. 9513), where there is an Arts See also:College.

The raja's See also:

palace and other public buildings were seriously damaged by the See also:earthquake of the 12th of See also:June 1897. The See also:late raja, who died from the result of a motor-See also:car See also:accident in 1909, succeeded his See also:father in 1806, but he had taken a large See also:share in the administration of the state for some years previously. The principle of See also:succession, which had often caused serious disputes, was defined in 1904, to the effect that the chief may nominate any male descendant through See also:males from himself or from any male ancestor, but failing such nomination, then the rule of See also:primogeniture applies.

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