Prativa Sundari Devi Narayan of Cooch Bihar, also known as Princess Mander, was an Indian princess of the
princely state of
Cooch Behar
Cooch Behar (), also known as Koch Bihar, is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal and it stands on bank of the Torsa river. The city is the headquarters of the Cooch Behar district. During the British Raj, Cooch Behar was the seat of the ...
,
British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in South Asia. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one form or another ...
.
She was born at Lily Cottage, Calcutta, on 22 November 1891, the second daughter of
H.H. Sri Sri Maharaja Sir Nripendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur, Maharaja of Cooch Behar, by his wife
H.H. Maharani Sunity Devee Sahiba, sometime Regent of Cooch-Behar and President of the State Council.
She married at Woodlands, Calcutta, on 21 February 1912
Miles Mander
Miles Mander (born Lionel Henry Mander; 14 May 1888 – 8 February 1946), was an English character actor, writer, director and producer in the post-war period of early British cinema during the 1920s to mid-1930s, as well as a playwright an ...
, actor, film director and author, and brother of
Geoffrey Mander
Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander (6 March 1882 – 9 September 1962) was a Midland industrialist and chairman of Mander Brothers Ltd., paint and varnish manufacturers in Wolverhampton, England, an art collector and Liberal parliamentarian.
Ear ...
of
Wightwick Manor
Wightwick Manor ( ) is a Victorian era, Victorian house in Wightwick Bank, a suburb of Wolverhampton, West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It was commissioned in 1887 from the architect Edward Ould by Theodore Mander family, Mander ...
; while her sister,
Sudhira Sundari Devi, married the youngest brother, Alan Mander, in 1914. Prativa's marriage was without issue, and Miles petitioned for a divorce, granted on 24 May 1922. She died in Calcutta, 23 July 1923.
[Nicholas Mander, ''Borromean Rings: genealogy of the Mander Family'', Owlpen Press, 2011]
See also
*
Mander family
The Mander family has held for over 200 years a prominent position in the Midland counties of England, both in the family business and public life.
In the early Industrial Revolution, the Mander family entered the vanguard of the expansion of ...
*Sunity Devee (1921),
The Autobiography of an Indian Princess', London: J. Murray, on the Internet Archive
References
1923 deaths
1891 births
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