Cooch Behar State
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![The Cooch Behar Palace.](/Images/godic/202501/22/Coochbehar_palace2339.jpg")
![Maharaja Shri Sir Jitendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur.](/Images/godic/202501/22/H.H._Maharaja_Shri_Sir_Jitendra_Narayan_Bhup_Bahadur,_Maharaja_of_Cooch-Behar,_KCSI,_19132339.jpg")
![Maharani Gayatri Devi, Rajmata of Jaipur, born as Princess Gayatri Devi of Cooch Behar, with her husband Man Singh II, the last ruling Maharaja of Jaipur State.](/Images/godic/202501/22/Man_Singh_II_and_Gayatri_Devi2339.jpg")
- For the present-day district of West Bengal: Cooch Behar District
Cooch Behar, also known as Koch Bihar, was a princely state in India ruled by Rajbanshi clans during the British Raj. The state was placed under the Bengal States Agency, part of the Eastern States Agency of the Bengal Presidency. It is located south of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, in present-day West Bengal.