He selected a spot on a green hillock known as Kunjaban, which stands at a distance of 1 km north of Ujjayanta palace.

Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, who had close ties with the royal family, visited Tripura seven times.

Tagore's 80th birthday was celebrated in this by Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya during a programme in May 1941.

[5] After the princely state merged with the Indian union in 1949, the 4.31-acre palace was converted into the chief commissioner's bungalow and then the Raj Bhavan till 2018.

The southern side of the park has been made open to the public and has been named as Rabindra Kanan.