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Sitter: Maharani Siniti Devi, CI (18.3.1887) (b.
at Sens House, Calcutta, 1864; d. at Ranchi, 10th November
1932), sometime Regent of Cooch-Behar and President of the State Council,
eldest daughter of Babu Keshab Chandra Sen. Married 5 March 1878
Colonel Maharaja Shri Sir Nripendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur, Maharaja
of Cooch Behar. (Biographical information
provided by Christopher J Buyers
, The Royal Ark http://www.dreamwater.net/regiment/
Biog: Daughter of Babu Keshub Chunder Sen, leader of the Brahmo Samaj; m (1878) Maharajah Sir Nripendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur of Cooch Behar. Date: 1902. Occasion: The Coronation of King Edward VII, 9 August 1902. Location: The Lafayette Studio, 179, New Bond Street, London. Descr: TQL standing. Costume: Gown of white satin with 'Empire' wreath design embroidered in gold - worn at the Coronation ceremony. Costume Supplier: Made by 'a French milliner'. Orders, Decorations & Medals: Badge of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India, [C.I. cr. 18 March 1887]; Queen Victoria Jubilee Medal 1887, with 1897 bar. Jewellery: - Furniture & Props: Painted backdrop.
Photographer: Lafayette Ltd., 179 New Bond Street, London. Evidence of photographer at work: - All images of sitter:
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References: Biog: Who's Who in India, Lucknow, 1911, Part VIII, p 3; Sunity Devee, Maharani of Cooch Behar, The Autobiography of an Indian Princess, London, 1921; Gayatri Devi and Santha Rama Rau, A Princess Remembers: The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur, London, 1984, p 40; Maharajah of Baroda, The Palaces of India, London, 1980. Occasion: Sunity Devee, op cit, pp 169-174. Costume: The Times, 11 August 1902, p 15d; The Gentlewoman, 16 August 1902, p 208a; Sunity Devee, op cit, p 173. Costume Supplier: Sunity Devee, op cit, p 173. Orders, Decorations & Medals: (Badge of the Crown of India), Burke's Peerage; Sunity Devee, op cit, p. 119-120. (Jubilee Medal) Howard N. Cole, Coronation and Royal Commemorative Medals 1887-1977, London, 1977, p 146; A.R. Litherland & B.T. Simpkin, Spinks Standard Catalogue of British and Associated Orders, Decorations & Medals, London, 1990; Biographical information provided by Christopher J Buyers , The Royal Ark http://www.dreamwater.net/regiment/RoyalArk/royalark.htm . Jewellery: For tiara worn as necklace, see Gayatri Devi, op cit, photo. p 35. Reproduced: -
Acknowledgements: (Biography) Christopher Buyers
1. NB Pauline Rohatgi, Portraits in the India Office Library and Records, London, 1983, p 277, refers to Sunita Devi. |
