Maharani Shashank Manjari Devi Sahiba was an Indian politician. She was elected to the

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, also known as the House of the People, is the lower house of Parliament of India which is Bicameralism, bicameral, where the upper house is Rajya Sabha. Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by a ...

, lower house of the

Parliament of India The Parliament of India (ISO 15919, ISO: ) is the supreme legislative body of the Government of India, Government of the Republic of India. It is a bicameralism, bicameral legislature composed of the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and the Lok ...

from Palamu,

Bihar Bihar ( ) is a states and union territories of India, state in Eastern India. It is the list of states and union territories of India by population, second largest state by population, the List of states and union territories of India by are ...

as a member of the

Swatantra Party The Swatantra Party was an Indian classical liberal political party that existed from 1959 to 1974. It was founded by C. Rajagopalachari in reaction to what he felt was the Jawaharlal Nehru-dominated Indian National Congress's increasingly so ...

. She belonged to the erstwhile royal family (Narain Raj Parivar) of

Ramgarh Raj Ramgarh Raj was the major ''Zamindari'' estate in the era of the British Raj in the former Indian province of Jharkahnd. Territories which comprised the Ramgarh Raj presently constitute districts of Ramgarh, Hazaribagh, Chatra, Giridih, ...

and was also the granddaughter of H.H. Maharaja Shri Raja Arjun Singh of Porahat. She was married to Maharaja Lakshmi Narain Singh Bahadur of

. She was also a M.L.A. from Jaridhi Vidhan Sabha and Dumri Vidhan Sabha for three terms and was also the irrigation minister of Bihar during 1969. She was regarded as one of the most powerful women of India as she never lost a singh election in her entire life.

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Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
Swatantra Party politicians Lok Sabha members from Bihar India MPs 1962–1967 1899 births Women members of the Lok Sabha People from Palamu district Bihar MLAs 1969–1972 20th-century Indian women 20th-century Indian people 1987 deaths