Maharani of Cooch Behar Sunity Devee

Born in 1864, she was the daughter of the Brahmo Samaj reformer Keshub Chandra Sen and later became Maharani of Cooch Behar through her marriage to Maharaja Nripendra Narayan. Accounts of her life consistently describe her as more than a royal figure: she was also active in education, social work, and public life.

She is especially remembered for supporting women's education and for bringing reformist ideas into court life. She also wrote extensively, and her best-known work, The Autobiography of an Indian Princess (1921), remains a valuable personal record of aristocratic and social life in British India.

Sunity Devee died in 1932. Today she is often remembered as a writer and progressive Maharani whose life connected reformist Bengal, princely India, and the wider world.