Champaran
Champaran is a region which now forms the East Champaran district, and the West Champaran district in Bihar, India.
Champaran | |
|---|---|
Region | |
  Champaran Location in Bihar, India  Champaran Champaran (Bihar) | |
| Coordinates: 26.8437°N 84.6826°E | |
| Country |  |
| State | Bihar |
| Languages | |
| • Main | Bhojpuri, Maithili, Hindi, Urdu |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
Notable people
- Anuranjan Jha - Indian journalist
- Anugrah Narayan Sinha - Lawyer, Gandhian, freedom fighter
- Raj Kumar Shukla - Indigo cultivator, activist
- Radha Mohan Singh - Indian politician
- Gopal Singh Nepali - Nepalese poet of Hindi literature, Bollywood lyricist
- Ramesh Chandra Jha - Indian poet, novelist and freedom fighter
- George Orwell - English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic
- Prakash Jha - Indian filmmaker
- Manoj Bajpai -Indian film actor
- Rajendra Prasad - First president of the Republic of India, the only president to hold the office twice
- Ravish Kumar -Indian journalist
References
Further reading
- "Champaran Gramodyog Sansthan".
- Singh, Shankar Dayal. Gandhi's first step: Champaran movement, by B.R. Pub. Corp., 1994. ISBN 81-7018-834-2.
- Chakrabarti D.K. (1996b). From Purnea to Champaran: The distribution of sites in the north Bihar plains. South Asian Studies, 12:pp. 147–158
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