Family Relationships
Maharani Gayatri Devi was related to several other erstwhile royal families in India. She was herself not from Rajput royalty, but from a dynasty native to Koch Bihar in Bengal and was daughter of Maharaja Jitendra Narayan and Maharani Indira Raje, who was daughter of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III and belonging to the Gaekwad dynasty of the Marathas.
Her grandfather-grandmother were the Maharaja Nripendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur and Maharani Suniti Devi of Cooch Behar. Maharani Suniti Devi was the daughter of illustrious Brahmo social reformer Keshab Chandra Sen.
She had two brothers, Jagaddipendra Narayan and Indrajitendra Narayan of whom Jagaddipendra Narayan became Maharaja of Koch Behar in his infancy after death of their father in 1922.
Thus she was closely connected maternally with Gaekwads of Baroda State. Further, her sister Ila Devi was married into Tripura royal family, and her younger sister Menaka Devi was married in Dewas Jr. State. Thus through various inter connections, she was related to royal houses of Kota, Sawantwadi, Akkalkot State, Jath, Dewas Jr., Jasdan, and Sandur, Tehri-Garhwal, Dhar, Kolhapur, Lunawada, Baria and also Raja of Burudwan and Raja of Payagpur, which was normal amongst the royalties of India.
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