Kedar Ray

Kedar Ray
Maharaja of Bikrampur[1]
Monarch of Bikrampur
Reign1561-1616
Coronation1561 (first)
PredecessorPosition established (first)
SuccessorChand Dev Ray
Position abolished
Born1561
Bikrampur, Bengal Sultanate (now Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Died1616
Sripur, on the Battlefield
SpouseUnknown
Issue
  • Chand Deb Ray
  • Sôrnomoyi Debi
HouseBaro Bhuyans
FatherJadob Deb Ray
MotherUnknown
ReligionHinduism (born)
Shaktism (permanent)

Kedarnath Dev Ray (1561–1616 CE) was the Maharaja of Bikrampur, and among the most prominent of the Baro-Bhuyan in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, he resisted Mughals till he was in power (before being defeated by mughal vassal of Amber, Man Singh I).[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

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  6. ^ Nathan, Mīrzā (1936). Bahāristān-i-Ghaybī: A History of the Mughal Wars in Assam, Cooch Behar, Bengal, Bihar and Orissa During the Reigns of Jahāngīr and Shāhjahān. Government of Assam, Department of Historical and Antiquarian Studies, Narayani Handiqui Historical Institute.
  7. ^ Chakrabarti, Kunal; Chakrabarti, Shubhra (2013-08-22). Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-8024-5.
  8. ^ Ray, Aniruddha (1998). Adventurers, Landowners, and Rebels: Bengal C. 1575-c. 1715. Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers. ISBN 978-81-215-0743-1.