The Tripuri calendar is the traditional
luni-solar calendar used by the
Tripuri people
The Tripuri (also known as Tripura, Tipra, Tiprasa, Twipra) are an ethnic group originating in the Indian state of Tripura. They are the inhabitants of the Twipra/Tripura Kingdom in North-East India and Bangladesh. The Tripuri people through t ...
, especially in the context of
Tripuri irredentism. Its era, the "Twipra Era", "Tripura Era" or ''Tripurabda'' is set at 15 April AD 590.
The Tripura Era's New Year is on the 1st of Vaishak which corresponds to 14 or 15 of April of
Common Era, depending on whether that year is a Leap year or not. The months are named in pan Indian months, time since its inception 1419 years back by Tripur king Hamtorfa alias Himtifa alias Jujharufa in 512 Saka Era.
Historically, the Tripura Era was prevalent in all official matters of the princely state of
Tippera under the
British Raj. Tradition holds that the era marks the conquest of Bengal by the 118th Tripuri king in the ''
Rajmala'' chronicle, Hamtor Fa (also ''Jujaru Fa'' or ''Himti'' or ''Birraj''). In historical reality, however, the Tripuri era, just as the Bengali era, is an adoption of the Mughal ''
Fasli era'' introduced by emperor
Akbar in 1563. Its use in Tripura (Twipra) can be traced to the 163rd king in Tripuri reckoning,
Govinda Manikya (fl. 1660), and the characteristic shift by three years is first recorded under his successor, ''Chhatramanikya'' in 1663/4, who can thus be considered to have introduced the "Tripuri calendar".
With the accession of
Tripura to the
Republic of India in 1949, official use of the Tripuri calendar was discontinued.
There have long been calls to revive the Tripuri calendar in
Tripuri nationalism. In 1991, the Tripuri era was first cited in the State Government calendar and diaries. In 2001, the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) authorities organized a three-day "Tring festival", which concluded at the TTAADC headquarters
Khumulwng in
West Tripura.
References
*D. C.Sircar, ''Some Epigraohical Records Of The Mediaeval Period From Eastern India'', Abhinav Publications, 1979
93f.
See also
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Buisu
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Tripuri people
The Tripuri (also known as Tripura, Tipra, Tiprasa, Twipra) are an ethnic group originating in the Indian state of Tripura. They are the inhabitants of the Twipra/Tripura Kingdom in North-East India and Bangladesh. The Tripuri people through t ...
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Twipra kingdom
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Specific calendars
Time in India
Tripuri culture
Lunisolar calendars
Calendar eras