Prajeeta II

Prajeeta Rajya Lakshmi Devi Misra
Queen of Mahana
Prajeeta (right) and her husband Charandra Tamarkar Misra (left) during the coronation in 1902.
King of Mahana
Reign	28 February 1902 – 12th September 1917
Coronation	19th June 1902
Predecessor	Manmohan Krishnu
Successor	Rajya III
Born	Prajeeta Rajya Lakshmi Devi Krishnu 5th May 1873 Jutpandi Royal Hospital, Nuragara Province, Mahana
Died	26 July 1945(1945-07-26) (aged 72) Jutpandi, Mahana
Charandra Tamarkar Misra
Issue	King Rajya III Vineeta Rai Misra
Regnal name Prajeeta Rajya Lakshmi Devi Misra
Dynasty	Misra Dynasty

Prajeeta Rajya Lakshmi Devi Misra, Queen of Mahana (Born; Prajeeta Rajya Lakshmi Devi Krishnu, 5th May 1873 - 26th July 1945) was a member of the Misra Dynasty and Queen of Mahana from 1902 to 1917, when she abdicated the throne to her eldest son, King Rajya. Prajeeta's activism and glamour made her an icon regionally and internationally. Her activism lead to her abdication as she left the glamourous royal life to assist with charities in Azania.

Prajeeta was born to royalty, the daughter and only heir of the reigning king, Manmohan Krishnu, and raised in the Jutpandi Royal Palace. During her early years she was in the eyes of the nations people and the media, known for having beautiful eyes and a charismatic smile. She was made Sardar of Nuragara in 1890. In 1896 she was married to a noble named Charandra Tamarkar Misra, heir to a successful cane plantation. Her father finally passed in 1902, and she was coronated in the months following.

Prajeeta believed heavily in philanthropy and spent a lot of her life and reign raising funds for Mahanan youth charities and distributing the wealth. This gave her a generally positive reputation to other international leaders, with her reign being the first in which many Argic and western countries opened relations with Mahana.

Early Life

Prajeeta was born to royalty, the daughter and only heir of the reigning king, Manmohan Krishnu, and raised in the Jutpandi Royal Palace. Her early life was very public, appearing in media and to the public often as it was presumed she would be the final member of the Krishnu Dynasty of monarchs, as well as being one of Mahana's first queens. She was raised under the close supervision of Girija Baral, one of her father's servants. This greatly influenced Prajeeta's political and social views as she wasn't raised with great spoils unlike her younger siblings.

Prajeeta's mother was was proclaimed 'medically insane' during her teenage years, which took a great toll on a young Prajeeta. Her mother's diposition lead to Prajeeta spending great amounts of time inbetween the hospital his mother was stationed at and the family home.

She became the Sardar of Nuragara in 1890.

During her mid-teenage years her father had her visit countries around the Orient, attending lavish tea festivals in Tamur or diplomatic meetings in Kotowari to prepare the young princess for her ruling. When she returned to Mahana in 1892, aged 19, she ran for the Jutpandi city senate, being the first woman to be elected in history. Some at the time were upset at this, sighting nepotism. During her twenties she served on the senate in the city and became popular with it's residents as she visited areas of the city which were poverished.

Marriage

Prajeeta (right) and Charandra Misra (left) on their wedding day, 1896.

Prajeeta had been sworn to Charandra Tamarkar Misra, a member of the powerful caste-family of the same name. The Misra family were direct descendents of former Mahanan rulers and monarchs and had tension with the reigning house of Krishnu. The marriage between Charandra and Prajeeta guarenteed the Misra name would be carried into the next generation of rulers and that relations between the two families would be stabilised. The negotiations for the wedding lasted over a year as the two families struggled for a deal to be made and the couple struggled to get along.

On the day of the wedding important figures from both families attended and crowds stacked the streets of Jutpandi as the carriage that carried the couple drove past. Following the ceremony, the two took an open-roof car tour around the city, which almost ended in a disaster when the couple had to retreat due to a bomb threat. The marriage caused some controversy as the Misra family were all Gai followers wheras the House of Krishnu had historically been a Hindu family. This meant that the royal family of Mahana would become Gaist in the future generations.

In 1899 she would give birth to her first child Rajya.