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Changing short description from "Historian" to "Indian historian" (Shortdesc helper)

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'''Bihari Lal Fitrat''' was a historian who focused on the history of [[Mithila (region)|Mithila]]. His major work was the ''Aina-i-Tirhut'' which was written in [[Urdu]] and published in 1883. The book was important as it was considered the first serious attempt at cataloguing the history of Mithila.<ref name="Jha2017">{{cite book|author=Mithilesh Kumar Jha|title=Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India: Making of the Maithili Movement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0-pIDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT69|date=21 November 2017|publisher=OUP India|isbn=978-0-19-909172-0|pages=69–70}}</ref>

==Biography==
Bihari Lal Fitrat was born in 1829 into an elite family in [[Darbhanga]]. He qualified as a lawyer in 1856 and was made an honorary magistrate in 1877. He later worked in the court of [[Raj Darbhanga]]. He was well versed in Maithili, Hindi, Urdu, Persian and Arabic.<ref name="ChandraChandra2019">{{cite book|author1=Aditi Chandra|author2=Vinita Chandra|title=The Nation and its Margins: Rethinking Community|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GMfHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA36|date=13 December 2019|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1-5275-4457-4|pages=36–38}}</ref>

In his Aina-i-Tirhut, he was very conscious of the distinct history and culture of Mithila and he asserts that:

{{quote|''Tirhut is the province of Bihar which is also known as Mithila nation''|author=|title=|source=}}

His book was one of the pioneering works in recording the history of Mithila.

==References==
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[[Category:History of Bihar]]
[[Category:Writers of Mithila]]

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>TheAafi: Changing short description from "Historian" to "Indian historian" (Shortdesc helper)