Background
She was a daughter of the renowned Brahmo Samaj reformist, Keshub Chandra Sen of Calcutta. She died suddenly in the year 1932 at Ranchi. A road in her home town, Cooch Behar is named Sunity Road after her.
She was a daughter of the renowned Brahmo Samaj reformist, Keshub Chandra Sen of Calcutta. She died suddenly in the year 1932 at Ranchi. A road in her home town, Cooch Behar is named Sunity Road after her.
She along with her sister Sucharu Devi also financed the foundation of Maharani Girls' High School at Darjeeling in 1908. She was the President of State Council and also the first President of All Bengal Women's Union in 1932 and worked along with other women's right activist from Bengal like Charulata Mukherjee, Saroj Nalini Dutt, T.R Nelly and her sister Sucharu Devi, the Maharani of Mayurbhanj.
In 1887, her husband, Maharja Nipendra Narayan was awarded GCIE and she was awarded CIE. Suniti Devi became the first Indian women to be awarded CIE. She attended the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Queen Victoria in 1898 and Delhi Durbar of 1911 with her husband, the Maharaja of Cooch Behar.
Her husband had set up in her name a girls school named Suniti College in 1881 which was later named Suniti Academy. Suniti Devi was the brain behind the establishment of the school.
Keshub Chunder Sen was an Indian Bengali Hindu philosopher and social reformer who attempted to incorporate Christian theology within the framework of Hindu thought.
Maharaja Nripendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur (1863–1911) was Maharaja of Koch Bihar, West Bengal, India.
She was married to Maharaja Nripendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur, the Maharaja of Cooch Behar in 1878, when she was only fourteen years of age. She stayed at her father's place for two years after marriage, as the Maharaja left for London for higher studies immediately after their marriage.
Jitendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur was Maharaja of Cooch-Behar, in India from September 1913 until his death in December 1922.
Her Highness Maharani Sucharu Devi (1874-1961) was the Maharani of Mayurbhanj, India.
