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Tripuri people

Ethnic group of Tripura, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Tripuri people, also known as Tripuri, Tripura, Tiprasa, Twipras or Tipperahs, are a Tibeto-Burman-speaking ethnic group of the Indian state of Tripura and the independent nation of Bangladesh. They are the descendants of the inhabitants of the Twipra/Tripura Kingdom in North-East India and Bangladesh. The Tripuri people through the Manikya dynasty ruled the Kingdom of Tripura for over 600 years starting from 1400 until the kingdom joined the Indian Union on 15 October 1949.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Tripuri people” as ethnic group of Tripura, India. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1400, 1949—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Tripuri, people and Ethnic can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as ethnic group of Tripura, India. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1400 and 1949.

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The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tripuri people” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.