Kalindi (rani)

Rani Kalindi (died 1873) was the 46th and last independent ruler of the Chakma Circle.

She was born in the village of Kudukchari near the Rangamati-Khagrachari highway in present-day Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh and was the daughter of a commoner called "Guzong Bujjye" which literally means "bent old man" translated from the Chakma language.

After his death she became the reigning Rani after a brief power struggle with rival queens and the estate manager called Shuklal Dewan backed by Captain Thomas Herbert Lewin the British Superintendent of Chittagong Hill Tracts district.

She institutionalized and patronized Theravada Buddhism in the kingdom by inviting monks from Myanmar.

She died in 1873 leaving her step-grandson Harish Chandra to be the next Chakma Raja in her place.