Shahabad district
Shahabad district or Arrah district, headquartered at Arrah (now part of Bhojpur District) was a bhojpuri speaking district in western Bihar, India making western border of Bihar with Uttar Pradesh. In year 1972, the district was subsequently bifurcated into two districts [1] namely Bhojpur and Rohtas. Later on Kaimur District was carved out from Rohtas in 1991 and Buxar District from Bhojpur in 1992.
The districts in erstwhile Shahabad are as follows.
- Bhojpur District headquartered at Arrah
- Rohtas District headquartered at Sasaram
- Kaimur District headquartered at Bhabua
- Buxar District headquartered at Buxar
All four above districts falls under Patna Division along with Patna and Nalanda District.
Notable persons
- Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Seventh Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and first woman Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (great-grandfather is from Shahabad)
- Basdeo Panday, actor, former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, and the first Indian Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (grandparents are from Shahabad)
- Cheddi Jagan, Former Chief Minister, former Premier, and former President of Guyana and the Father of Guyana (parents from Shahabad)
- Chacha Ramgoolam, First Prime Minister and Chief Minister of Mauritius (father from Shahabad)
- Navin Ramgoolam, Former Prime Minister of Mauritius (grandfather from Shahabad)
- Anerood Jugnauth, Former Prime Minister of Mauritius (grandfather is from Shahabad)
- Pravind Jugnauth, Present Prime Minister of Mauritius (great-grandfather is from Shahabad)
- Sher Shah Suri, Founder of Sur Dynasty who had built Grand Trunk Road
- Ustad Bismillah Khan, shehnai maestro & recipient of Bharat Ratna.
- Babu Jagjivan Ram, 4th Deputy PM & longest serving union minister of India
- Meira Kumar, retd. Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer & 1st women Lok Sabha Speaker.
- Ram Subhag Singh, Railway Minister of India from 14 February 1969 to 4 November 1969
- Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha, 6th Chief Justice of India
- Bisheshwar Prasad Singh, former Chief Justice of Bombay High Court.
- Anil Sinha, Indian Police Service (IPS) officer & current Director of CBI.
- Bindeshwari Dubey, 21st Chief Minister of Bihar & former Union Minister of India.
- Anant Sharma, former Union Minister & Governor of Punjab & West Bengal state.
- Prashant Kishor, political strategist who led the NDA to win the 2014 Elections.
- Vinay Pathak, famous Bollywood actor
- Manoj Tiwari, Member of Parliament & one of the two Bhojpuri cinema superstar
- Vashishtha Narayan Singh, Indian mathematician & former NASA scientist.
- Veer Kunwar Singh, Indian freedom fighter who fought the British at the age of 80.
- Sardar Harihar Singh , Former Chief Minister of Bihar (From Chaungain).
References
- ↑ "Buxar at a glance". Bihar Government. Retrieved January 14, 2012.
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