PRESENT RULER:

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The ancestor of the family was Raghu Ram, Senapati of the Cooch Behar Forces, whose son became the first Zamindar of Kakina. Estate holders were....

• RAM NARAYAN Chowdhury, Zamindar of Kakina, he was granted the title of Chowdhury in 1687, married and had issue. He died 1710.

  • Raja Roy Chowdhury (qv)

• RAJA Roy Chowdhury, Zamindar of Kakina, married and had issue.

  • Rudra Roy Chowdhury (qv)

• RUDRA Roy Chowdhury, Zamindar of Kakina, married and had issue. He died 1768.

  • Rasik Roy Chowdhury (qv)

• RASIK Roy Chowdhury, Zamindar of Kakina, married Alaknanda Chowdhurani (qv), and had issue. He died 1770.

  • Ram Rudrai Roy Chowdhury (qv)

• Alaknanda Chowdhurani, Zamindarani of Kakina 1770/1784

• RAM RUDRAI Roy Chowdhury, Zamindar of Kakina 1784/1820, married and had issue. He died 1820.

  • (name unknown) Roy Chowdhury (qv)

• (name unknown) Roy Chowdhury, Zamindar of Kakina 1820/-, married and had issue.

  • (name unknown) Roy Chowdhury (qv)

• (name unknown) Roy Chowdhury, Zamindar of Kakina -/1850, died 1850.

• Babu SAMBHU CHANDRA Roy Chowdhury, Zamindar of Kakina 1850/-, he succeeded his first cousin in 1850, married and had issue.

  • Raja Mahima Ranjan Roy Chowdhury (qv)

• Raja MAHIMA RANJAN Roy Chowdhury, Zamindar of Kakina, born 3rd February 1854, he was granted the title of Raja on 16th February 1887 as a personal distinction, married 1868, Rani Man Mohini Rai Chowdhurani and had issue.

  • Raja Mahendra Ranjan Roy Chowdhury (qv)

• Raja MAHENDRA RANJAN Roy Chowdhury, Zamindar of Kakina -/1940, born 16th September 1874 ^(#1) in Kakina, married Rani Shanti Bala Roy Chowdhurani, born 21st July 1883, died 10th November 1968, and had issue. He died 21st April 1940 in Kurseong, West Bengal.

  • Rajkumari Josna Bala Roy, born 1900 in Kakina, married and had issue. She died 1982 in Calcutta.

    • Mrinal Coomarie [Tooku Bam], born 1920 in Calcutta, married Arvind Shankar Bam, I.C.S. (Retd.), and has issue. (Delhi/Kurseong, India).

      • Swagat Arvind Bam, born 1956 in Calcutta. (Delhi, India)

      • Aditi Bam, born 1945 in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal. (Delhi, India)

      • Koyna Bam Sood, born 1949 in Bombay. (Pittsburgh, U.S.A.)

  • Rajkumari Suniti Bala Roy, born 1902 in Kakina, died 1980 in Madhupur, Bihar.