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cleaned up formatting to improve readability and improved wording

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2021-07-20T14:17:17Z

−Category:Bangladeshi Hindus; +Category:Indian nobility; +Category:Indian noble families; ±Category:Bangladeshi families→Category:Indian families using HotCat

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{{Royal house|
|coat of arms =
|image_size =
|caption =
|country = *[[Company rule in India]]
*[[British Raj|British India]]
| region = [[Nadia district|Nadia]], [[West Bengal]], India
|titles = {{plainlist|
* [[Raja]]
* [[Rai (Indian)|Rai-Raiyan]]
* [[Raja Bahadur]]}}
|founder = [[Raja]] Bhabananda Majumdar<ref>{{cite web|title=Maharaja Krishnachandra Roy|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/37544927/Raja-Krishnachandra|publisher=Scribd}}</ref>
|current head =
| religion = [[Hindu]]
| dissolution = {{start date and age|1950|01|26}}
|founding year = 17th century
|final_ruler = [[Raja]] Ksitish Chandra Roy
}}

{{Bengal Zamindars series}}
'''Nadia Raj''' were a dynasty of [[Zamindar]]s and the rulers of territories that are now part of the [[Nadia district]] region of [[West Bengal, India]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yFsvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA181|title=Unforgetting Chaitanya: Vaishnavism and Cultures of Devotion in Colonial Bengal|author=Varuni Bhatia|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=9 August 2017|page=181}}</ref> Their seat was at the city of [[Krishnanagar, Nadia]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Bengal: The British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740-1828|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lIZrfokYSY8C&pg=PA16|page=16|author=P. J. Marshall|publisher=Cambridge University Press|access-date=2 November 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QVOFAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA327|author1=Kunal Chakrabarti|author2=Shubhra Chakrabarti|publisher=Scarecrow Press|access-date=22 August 2013|page=327}}</ref> The estate of Nadia Raj was estimated to cover an area of {{convert|8161|sqkm}}.<ref>{{cite book|title=Mother of My Heart, Daughter of My Dreams: Kali and Uma in the Devotional Poetry of Bengal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2PrChFaXgf0C&pg=PA20|author=Rachel Fell McDermott|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=28 June 2001|page=20}}</ref>

The rulers of Nadia Raj established many Sanskrit schools in Nadia, since they were the patron of Sanskrit literature and music. They were also patrons of Sanskrit culture in Bengal.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uz-HDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA49|title=Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture: India, 1770-1880|author=M. Dodson|publisher=Springer|access-date=15 February 2007|page=49}}</ref>

==History==
The '''Nadia Raj family''' is believed to have descended from [[Bhatta Narayana]],<ref>{{cite book|title=Time, History and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WWysAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA182|author=Anne Murphy|publisher=Routledge|access-date=12 March 2012|page=182}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite web|title=Did you know Nadia’s original capital was Matiyari?|url=https://www.getbengal.com/details/did-you-know-nadia-s-original-capital-was-matiyari|access-date=13 May 2020}}</ref> who was a [[Brahmin]] of the ''Sandilya'' Gotra. He was summoned from Kanyakubja ([[Kannauj]]) by Raja [[Adi Sura|Adisura]] of Bengal, for the conduct of ceremonies of purification.<ref name=":0" />

The Nadia Raj family is one of the oldest Hindu families in Bengal, spanning more than 35 generations from the founder. Since the establishment of [[British rule]] in [[Bengal]] each of the [[Raja]]s of Nadia were created a [[Maharaja]] [[Rao Bahadur|Bahadur]] in succession.<ref>{{cite book
| last1 = Chowdhury
| first1 = S. R. Kumar
| last2 = P. K.
| first2 = Singh
| last3 = Ismail
| first3 = M. Ali
| title = Blood Dynasties: Zemindaris of Bengal - A Chronicle of Bengal’s Ruling families
| format = Paperback
| year = 2012
| publisher = Dictus: Politics and Democracy series.
| isbn = 9783847385080
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=212VMQEACAAJ&dq=Blood+Dynasties:+Zemindaris+of+Bengal+-+A+Chronicle+of+Bengal%E2%80%99s+Ruling+families&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gDsnU7WOGsqwygGrvoGQCA&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA
|access-date=17 March 2014
}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Bengal Nobility}}
{{Nobility of the Raj}}

{{West Bengal}}

[[Category:Hindu families]]
[[Category:Bengali families]]
[[Category:Indian families]]
[[Category:History of Bengal]]
[[Category:Zamindari estates]]
[[Category:Bengali Hindus]]
[[Category:Indian nobility]]
[[Category:Indian noble families]]

Nadia Raj - Revision history

ShannonAguayo: cleaned up formatting to improve readability and improved wording

->Gotitbro: −Category:Bangladeshi Hindus; +Category:Indian nobility; +Category:Indian noble families; ±Category:Bangladeshi families→Category:Indian families using HotCat