Tripura
Small hill state of palaces and temples
Tripura, in India's far northeast and bordered on three sides by Bangladesh, is centred on the Ujjayanta Palace in Agartala, the state capital, a former royal residence of the Tripuri kingdom that ruled the region for centuries before joining India in 1949. The Neermahal water palace, built in the middle of Rudrasagar Lake in the 1930s, remains one of the state's most distinctive landmarks.
Tripura is home to 19 recognised tribal communities alongside a Bengali-speaking majority, a demographic shift shaped significantly by refugee migration following the 1947 Partition and 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. The state's hill forests and bamboo-based handicrafts, along with its Kharchi Puja and Garia festivals, reflect a blend of Tripuri tribal and Bengali cultural influences found nowhere else in India.
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Ujjayanta Palace
Ujjayanta Palace in Agartala is the former royal palace of Tripura's Manikya kings, now the Tripura State Museum.
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Neermahal
Neermahal is a royal lake palace in Rudrasagar Lake, Tripura, built in the 1930s as a summer retreat for the Manikya kings.
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Unakoti
Unakoti in northern Tripura is a hillside of giant rock-cut Shaiva carvings and stone images dating from about the 7th to 9th centuries.
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October–March
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