Twipra

Twipra was the hill kingdom of the Tripuri people in northeastern India. Its rulers had moved their capital east to the area around Kailashahar; in 1337 the later Manikya dynasty had yet to arise.

Early in the fifteenth century Maha Manikya founded the dynasty after defeating Bengal, and Ratna Manikya established his capital at Rangamati on the Gomati. Under Dhanya Manikya and Vijaya Manikya II the kingdom reached from the Garo Hills to the Bay of Bengal. Mughal pressure cost it its plains in the seventeenth century, while the hill kingdom retained independence.