page_title: History of Tripura
section_title: Modern period
hierarchical_section_title: History of Tripura / Modern period
context_page_description: The State of Tripura has a long history. The Twipra Kingdom at its peak included the whole eastern region of Bengal from the Brahmaputra River in the north and west, the Bay of Bengal in the south and Burma to the east during the 14th and 15th centuries AD.
  The last ruler of the princely state of Tripura was Kirit Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur Debbarma who reigned from 1947 to 1949 Agartala after whom the kingdom was merged with India on 9 September 1949, and the administration was taken over on 15 October 1949.
  Tripura became a Union Territory on 1 July 1963, and attained the status of a full-fledged state on 21 January 1972.
context_section_description: The modern period starts after the domination of the kingdom by the Mughals and the further tribute to British India after the British defeated the Mughals.
caption: 'Hill Tipperah' in the Bengal Gazetteer, 1907
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