PRESENT RULER: Rani Shipra Acharya Chowdhury, present Head of the Muktagacha zamindari family since 2005.

born 1965, married 7th December 1981, Raja Devashish Acharya Chowdhury, Zamindar of Muktagacha, and has issue, three daughters.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founded by Srikrishna Acharya Chowdhury, a Varendra Brahmin, and a revenue officer of Nawab Murshid Quli Khan, Nawab Nazim of Bengal 1703/1727, and who received the ijaradari of Alaphshahi pargana, one of the 22 estates of Bengal. After the death of Isha Khan, three more parganas were added to the estate. While returning from Murshidabad by boat, a local artisan named Muktaram Karmakar, presented him with a gold lamp-stand, called Gacha in Bengali. The Zamindar, in an effort to acknowledge the gift and to show respect to the presenter, renamed the town to Muktagacha. Estate holders were....

• SRI KRISHNA ACHARYA CHOWDHURY, 1st Zamindar of Muktagacha 1727/-, married and had issue.

  • Kumar Ram Ram Acharya Chowdhury

  • Kumar Hori Ram Acharya Chowdhury, Zamindar of Aatani, married Rani Bidyamoyee Devi, and had issue.

    • Maharaja Jagat Kishore Acharya Chowdhury, Zamindar of Aatani (half portion) of the total estate; married and had issue (see below).

  • Kumar Bishnu Ram Acharya Chowdhury

  • Raja Shiva Ram Acharya Chowdhury (qv)

• Raja SHIVARAM ACHARYA CHOWDHURY, Zamindar of Muktagacha, married and had issue.

  • Kumar Raghu Nandan Acharya Chowdhury, he donated land for the establishment of Mymensingh town in 1787; married and had issue.

    • Kumar Gouri Kanta Acharya Chowdhury

    • Kumar Kashi Kanta Acharya Chowdhury

    • Kumar Surya Kanta Acharya Chowdhury, his dwelling lodge is now being used as the Muktagachha Shaheed Smriti Government College; he established the Raj Rajeswari Water Works, Shashi Lodge, Alexandra Castle, Suryo Kanta Hospital and the Town Hall, he also donated land worth two lakh to construct the Dhaka-Mymensingh railroad.

    • Maharaja Shashi Kanta Acharya Chowdhury (qv)

• Maharaja SHASHIKANTA ACHARYA CHOWDHURY, Zamindar of Muktagacha, married and had issue.

  • Raja Jagat Kishore Acharya Choudhury (qv)

  • Kumar Jivendra Kishore Acharya

• Maharaja JAGAT KISHORE ACHARYA CHOWDHURY, Zamindar of Muktagacha, he was a great patron of Music and established the Bidyamoyee Girls High School, and Ram Kishore High School at Muktagachha; married and had issue.

  • Kumar Jeetendra Kishore Acharya Chowdhury

  • Kumar Bhupendra Kishore Acharya Chowdhury

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• Raja BAKUL ACHARYA CHOWDHURY, Zamindar of Muktagacha -/1971, educated privately initially, then received a post-graduate degree in Philosophy and a B.A. in Mathematics, married and had issue, eight children. He was killed by the Pakistani Army during the Liberation War of 1971 and is now recognized as a ‘Martyr’ by the Government of Bangladesh.

  • Raja Devashish Acharya Chowdhury (qv)

• Raja DEVASHISH ACHARYA CHOWDHURY, Zamindar of Muktagacha 1971/2005, married Rani Shipra Devi (qv), and had issue, three daughters. He died 2005.

• Rani Shipra Devi, Zamindarani of Muktagacha (see above)

PRESENT RULER:

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:

• Maharaja SHASHI KANTA ACHARYA CHOUDHURY, Zamindar of Mymensingh, Raja of Muktagacha, Mymensingh; he was granted the title of Raja Bahadur as a personal distinction in January 1913; married and had issue, leaving three sons and three daughters. He died on or about 31st May 1944 aged 59.

  • Maharaja Sitangshu Kanta Acharya Bahadur (qv)

  • Kumar Sudhanshu Kanta Acharya Choudhury ('Sunrise', Ranchi, Jharkhand, India)

  • Kumar Snehangshu Kanta Acharya, educated at the Scottish Church College, and the University of Calcutta, he studied and passed the exams of Barrister-at-Law from the Inns of Court in London; member of the Indian Students Group Movement; former Advocate General of West Bengal and C.P.I. (Marxist) leader, he was awarded the Order of Merit of Syria in 1957; married Srimati Supriya Devi, born 1922, died 31st October 2002 in Kolkata, Member, State Control Commission of the C.P.I.(Marxist), and a leader of the women's movement, an author and translator of note, she had published works of the the Chinese poet, Lu Shun; she was also involved with the Asiatic Society and the Indo Soviet Cultural Society; and had issue, a son and a daughter.

    • Dr. Sourangshu Kanta Acharyya.

    • Prof. Bijoya Goswami, [born 7th December 1951?], Professor of Sanskrit, Jadavpur University

• Maharaja SITANGSHU KANTA ACHARYA Bahadur, Zamindar of Mymensingh, Raja of Muktagacha, married Srimati Maharani Reba Acharya, and had issue, two sons. He died on or about 5th June 1952.

  • Kumar Sahasrangshu Kanta Acharya, born 1930, married 1956 (div. 1959), Janet Hicks from Essex, England, born about 1937, she was the winner of the Miss Essex title in 1956 ^(#1).

OTHER MEMBERS:

• Raja Harisch Chandra Chaudhri, descendant of Sri Krishna Chaudhri, Zamindar of Karni, Rajshahi; he was granted the title of Raja on 1st January 1877 as a personal distinction in recognition of his contributions to various works of public utility, married and had adoptive issue.

  • (A) Kumar Upendra Chandra Choudhury/Chaudhri, title of Kumar was granted as a personal distinction on 18th July 1861

• Janet Hicks, born about 1937, Miss Essex 1956; married 1956 (div. 1959), the Maharaja of Mymensingh, born 1930. [The Straits Times, 7 May 1956, Page 2]

• Raja Jatindra Narayan Acharyya Choudhury of Muktagachha, married and had issue, one daughter.

  • Smt. (name unknown) Acharya Chowdhury, married and had issue, two sons and one daughter.

    • Niladrinath Sanyal, he was adopted by his grandfather as his heir.

    • Mimadrinath Sanyal

    • Sja Sadhana Lahiry

• Rajashri Gopal Chandra Acharya Chowdhury, married and had issue. (Rajashri Bari, Muktagachha, Mymensingh, Bengal, India)

  • Sudhir Chandra Acharya Chowdhury, born 1892 in Muktagachha, Mymensingh, married Smt. Soroj Bashini Devi, and had issue.

    • Subodh Chandra Acharya Chowdhury, married Mukul Devi, and had issue, one daughter.

      • Swapna Lahiri, died 2007.

    • Sunith Chandra Acharya Chowdhury, married in June 1953, Smt. Sabita Chakravarty, and had issue. He died 2009.

      • Sujit Chandra Acharya Chowdhury, born in Kolkata, married, Smt. Sumita Chakravarty, and has issue.

        • Smt. Sharmila Acharya Chowdhury

      • Shampa Chatterjee (née Acharya Chowdhury)

    • Dr. Subhash Chandra Acharya Chowdhury

    • Sukesh Chandra Acharya Chowdhury