Early Life
He was born at Cooch Behar Palace as the eldest son of Maharaja Jitendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur, the Maharaja of Cooch-Behar, by his wife, Maharani Indira Devi Sahiba.
He was educated at St Cyprian's School Eastbourne, Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, and also at the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College, Dehradun. He became the Maharaja of Cooch Behar at the age of seven on the death of his father on the 20th December 1922 and ascended the gadi, on the 24th December 1922. He reigned under the Regency of his mother until he came of age and was invested with full ruling powers on the 6th April 1936.
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