Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Koch Rajbongshi Tribal of Asia

Koch Rajbongshi Tribe are densely found in their historic country namely Cooch Behar Princely State, Kamata Kingdom, Koch Kingdom, and so on.

The Cooch Behar Nation which had merged with the Indian territory on 28th of August 1949 and later on it was divided into various parts, where by the eastern part of the State merged with the Present Assam and the Western part of the State is being merged with the present West Bengal and few of the parts went with Meghalaya, Bihar, Bangladesh and Nepal.


 HISTORY

Cooch Behar Merger Agreement 
On 15th August 1947, it was the birth of an independent India and Pakistan, free from two decades of Colonial Rule. Question arose regarding which nation the State of Cooch Behar will cede to. On the 28th of August 1949 an agreement was contracted between the Governor-General of India and Koch Rajbongshi King  His Highness the Maharaja of Cooch Behar Jagaddipendra Narayan, which came to be known as the Cooch Behar Merger Agreement, in which His Highness the Maharaja of Cooch Behar ceded to the Dominion Government (Govt. of India) - "full and extensive authority, jurisdiction and powers for and in relation to the governance of the State" and agreed "to transfer the administration of the State to the Dominion Government on the 12th day of September, 1949." It was stipulated that from the 12th September, 1949 the Government of India would be competent to govern the State in such a manner and through such agency as it might think fit.



Reference:  Cooch Behar Merger Agreement. (n.d.). In Royal History. Retrieved November 10, 2013, from http://coochbehar.nic.in/htmfiles/royal_history2.html

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