The untold story of the dynasty of Krishnagar Empire in West Bengal, India

India is the country of the home of history. So many kings, so many queens, so many dynasties, so many languages, so many people, so many eras, so many empire and so many other things that you will be tired if you start knowing them one by one. Today I am going to tell you the story of krishnagar, which is situated in Nadia district in West Bengal, India. The Krishnagar was once the capital of Bengal and lots of kings walked into it. After lots of study and researches I just found actually history of krishnagar. I am going to tell this to you.

During the rule of Mughal king Akbar (i.e. year 1556 to 1605), the king andulia of Nadia, named King Kashinath Roy caught and killed in war. His widow (as well as pregnant) wife escaped and took shelter in the home of Harekrishna Samaddar. King Harekrishna was actually a landlord of Bogoan. He did not have any sons or daughters. Harekrishna accepted the wife of murdered king of Andulia and gave her shelter. The woman gave birth a baby in Harekrishna’s house. The king kept his name Ramchandra Samaddar. The baby started growing up in to king’s house .The boy started schooling, reading books, playing games and also completed grow up in the king’s house. The king Harekrishna also gave all his property to the boy (Ramchandra). Later Ramchandra also get married and also gave birth to a boy, whose name was Mansingha. Mansingha have a friend called Bhabananda. Bhabananda co-operated with Mansingha and created Nadia Dynasty. Not only Mansingha , there were also other songs of Mansingha . They are follows – Jagadish, Hariballav and Subudhi. They also got the shares of property of Mansingha . According to the sources bhabananda was the Sandillo Gotra( In Bengali hindu subrelegions)  and he was the 20th generation of bhattanarayan . Bhabananda became the Nadiaraj during the rule of Jahangir in the year 1606 . And eventually, this was he created the nadia dynasty. It is also noted that the actual name of king bhabananda was actually king Durgadas samaddar . When he got the thrown of Nadia he changed / or may be got the name Bhabananda Majumdar . Later these Nadiaraj people took the surname “Roy” . Bhabananda created the capital of Nadiaraj in Matiyari under Krishnagang police station. 

Here are the dynasty of krishnagar’s empire –

1. Kashinath Roy got a son and named in Ramchandra Samaddar.
2. Mansingha( Son of Ramchandra Samaddar ) and Bhabananda(old name Durgadas samaddar) created the Nadia Rajbangso .
3. Ram Chandra had some other sons and they are – Jagadish, Hariballabh and Subudhi.
4. Nadiaraj Gopala , the son of Bhabananda ruled in the time between the year 1628 – 1632.
5. Raghav Roy , the son of nadiaraj Gopala ruled in the time between the year 1632- 1683 .
6. Rudra Roy , The son of Raghav Roy ruled in the time between the year 1683 – 1694 .
7.  Ramchandra and Ramkrishna becaome of the king of Nadia for some time.
8. Ramjibon , another son of Rudra Roy became the king of Nadia .
9. Ragurama , the son of Ramjibon beame the king of Nadia and ruled between the year 1715 to 1728 .
10. Krishna Chandra Roy , the king of Nadia was the son of Ragurama ruled between the year 1728 – 1782 and he was one of great the king of Nadia raj dynasty.
11. After Siva Chandra (who was the son of Krishna Chandra) the son of Iswar Chandra, Son of Krishna Chandra ruled Nadia between the years 1788 to 1802.
12. Girish Chandra, The son of Iswar Chandra ruled between the years 1802 to 1842.
13. Sris Chandra, the son of Girish Chandra ruled between the years 1841 to 1856.
14. Satish Chandra, the son of Sris Chandra ruled Nadia after him between the year 1856 – 1870.
15. Khitish Chandra , the son of Satish Chandra ruled Nadia after him between the year 1890 – 1911
16. Khonish Chandra, the son of Khitish Chandra ruled between the years 1911 – 1928.
17. Sourish Chandra, the son of Khonish Chandra ruled between the years 1928-1996. He was actually the Maharaj Kumar of Nadia.
18. Soumish Chadra  , the son of Sourish Chandra ruled Nadia
19. Manish Chadra ,  The son of Soumish Chadra ruled Nadia. Probably he was the last king of Nadia.

Now , I think you understand how the nadiaraj dynasty comes along . However, Rudra Roy transferred his capital form matiyari to “Rauei” . Rudra Roy not only transferred his capital , but also changed his name to Krishnagar  according to the name of Sri Krishna . This king Mr.Rudra Roy had many queens. All queens also had sons and daughters. The song of 1st queen is Ramchandra and Ramjibon . He also have 2nd queen . The son of second queen Ramkrishna . For some days Ramchandra and Ramkrishna was the nadiaraj .

Krishna Chandra Roy born in the year 1710 and died in 1782. He was not  the last king of that dynasty , we can say he was last successful king of the dynasty . He ruled between the year 1728 and 1782. So, you can imagine how long his empire was. His office was actually at Krishnagar, Nadia, west Bengal , India. His reign was the remarkable chapter in Nadia raj dynasty. During the days of “Chiattorer monnontor” over thousands of people are died due to his failure reign . It was completely a tragedy for this governs. Krishna Chandra was also involved with betraying with the Nawab Sirajuddaula and that’s why he was also called “Nimokharam”(In hindi , it means who be-tray) . We are not sure, how it ended because I don’t had that much depth in Indian history and especially regional history.

However, the day of Krishna Chandra was not that bad as it sounds. He was the king who liked songs, singers, literature, architecture etc and more. He used to like to spend time with wise man, specially the Sanskrit people . Lots of poets like - Bharatchandra Raygunakar , Ramprasadh sen was also get valued in his court . He was also the king of Nawadip , Agradip , Kushdip and Chakradip . On the 23rd June , 1757 the middle age ended and modern age started and Krishna Chandra called “vikramaditya of Bengal( Bangla) “ . In that year Lord Claed gave him the title “Rajendra Bahadur” . Krishna Chadra Transferred his capital from Krishnanagar to Sivnibas for some reasons.

Here is the image of the Nadia Raj dynasty –

As stated in the above dynasty list , there were more kings then ruled after Krish Chandra Roy . All we know nothing is permanent and one day the Roy dynasty vanished. I am not sure of their generations still alive.