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Chandrakirti Singh

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Chandrakirti Singh
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Meitei and Bengali transliterations of "Chandrakirti Singh", the name of the Meitei King, the Maharaja of Kangleipak Kingdom (Manipur kingdom)
Reign	1850–May 1886
Born	Manipur Kingdom
House	Ningthouja dynasty
Father	Gambhir Singh
Occupation	monarch

Kingdom of Manipur

Part of History of Manipur

Kings of Manipur

Loiyumba	1074–1112
Senbi Kiyamba	1467–1508
Koirengba	1508–1512
Khagemba	1597–1652
Pitambar Charairongba	1697–1709
Pamheiba	1720–1751
Gaurisiam	1752–1754
Chitsai	1754–1756
Ching-Thang Khomba	1769–1798
Rohinchandra	1798–1801
Maduchandra Singh	1801–1806
Chourjit Singh	1806–1812
Marjit Singh	1812–1819
Gambhir Singh	1825–1834
Nara Singh	1844–1850
Debindro Singh	1850–1850
Chandrakirti Singh	1850–1886
Surachandra Singh	1886–1890
Kulachandra Singh	1890–1891
Churachandra Singh	1891–1941
Bodhchandra Singh	1941–1949

Manipur monarchy data

Ningthouja dynasty (Royal family)
Pakhangba (Symbol of the kingdom)
Cheitharol Kumbaba (Royal chronicle)
Imphal (Capital of the kingdom)
Kangla Palace (Royal residence)

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Chandrakirti Singh (1850 – May 1886) was a Meitei monarch and the Maharaja of Manipur Kingdom. He was the son of Maharaja Gambhir Singh.^[1]

Biography

He was born in Imphal, and resided there till the end of his Regime in 1886. Before he became the king, the reign of his father Maharaja Gambhir Singh was succeeded by Raja Narsingh and later on his death by Raja Narshingh's brother Debendra Singh for a short time. Maharaja Gambhir Singh's death on 9 January 1834 paved the way to the throne to Raja Narsingh.

Chandrakirti had ten sons from his six queens and Surchandra Singh is the eldest son of the first queen and the other three sons (Pakasana, Kesarjit, Gopalsana) of the first queen, Kulachandra (the second son of the second queen) and Gandhar Singh (another son of the second queen), Tikendrajit Singh (the third son of the third queen), the son of the fourth queen died in his early days, Angousana (the fifth son of the fifth queen) and the Zila Ngamba (the eighth son of the sixth queen).