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{{Short description|Movement for proposed separate Mithila state in India}}
'''Mithila State Movement''' is a movement advocating a separate [[Mithila (proposed Indian state)|Mithila]] state in [[India]].

== History ==
In 1902 AD, [[George Abraham Grierson]], an official of the [[British Raj|British Government]], prepared a map of Mithila by conducting a language-based survey in the region.<ref>{{Cite web |title=तीन सौ वर्ष पुरानी है मिथिला राज्य की अवधारणा - null |url=https://www.jagran.com/bihar/araria-9300932.html |access-date=2026-02-19 |website=Jagran |language=hi}}</ref> In 1921, Maharaja Rameshwar Singh of [[Raj Darbhanga|Darbhanga Raj]] raised the demand for a separate state of Mithila based on the concept of creating “a series of self-governing provinces and principalities federated by one central government.” <ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2018-06-20 |title=The Maithili movement |url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/books/article24200882.ece |access-date=2022-07-04 |website=frontline.thehindu.com |language=en}}</ref> In 1936, [[Odisha]] was separated from Bihar, but the demand of a separate Mithila state remained ignored. After the independence of India, the movement for the demand of separate Mithila state got further momentum by a number of political parties and their leaders.<ref>{{Citation |last=Jha |first=Mithilesh Kumar |title=Maithili Language and the Movement, Part–II |date=2018-04-12 |work=Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India |pages=167–251 |url=https://academic.oup.com/book/32339/chapter/268585181 |access-date=2026-02-19 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/oso/9780199479344.003.0005 |isbn=978-0-19-947934-4|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

=== 1990 - 2000 ===
In the March month of the year 1996, the [[Mithila Rajya Sangharsh Samiti]] initiated a mass contact campaign in the favour for separation of Mithila state from the state of Bihar in India. Similarly, in the July month of the year, the ''Mithilanchal Vikash Congress'' demanded for formation of an ''autonomous development council'' for the Mithila region in India.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kumāra |first=Braja Bihārī |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Small_States_Syndrome_in_India.html?id=nKqF_AgDd4gC#v=snippet&q=Mithila%20Rajya%20Sangharsh%20Samiti&f=false |title=Small States Syndrome in India |date=1998 |publisher=Concept Publishing Company |isbn=978-81-7022-691-8 |language=en}}</ref>

=== 2000 - 2026 ===
In the year 2015, the then BJP's MP [[Kirti Azad]] demanded a separate Mithila state for Maithili speaking people, at the Parliament of India.<ref>{{Cite web |last=IANS |date=2015-07-19 |title=Kirti Azad demands a separate Mithila state |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/kirti-jha-azad-seperate-mithila-state-cricket-283221-2015-07-19 |access-date=2026-02-19 |website=India Today |language=en}}</ref>

== Related organisations ==
The main role of Mithila State Movement is being done by 'Antarrashtriya Maithili Parishad', 'Mithila Rajya Nirman Sena', 'Sanyukta Mithila Rajya Sangharsh Samiti' '[[Mithila Student Union]]' and The Pro Maithils.<ref>{{Cite web |title=विशेष : मिथिला राज्य क्यों ? - Live Aaryaavart (लाईव आर्यावर्त) |url=https://www.liveaaryaavart.com/2014/01/mithila-rajya-kyon.html?m=1 |access-date=2022-07-04 |website=www.liveaaryaavart.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=मैथिली परिषद ने मिथिला राज्य निर्माण को लेकर की बैठक |url=https://www.jagran.com/bihar/purnea-purnia-news-22749565.html |access-date=2022-07-04 |website=Dainik Jagran |language=hi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-12-14 |title=Demonstration planned in Delhi for separate Mithila state |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/demonstration-planned-in-delhi-for-separate-mithila-state/story-awHWAfJ7iY0G8yhNegTzJM.html |access-date=2022-07-06 |website=Hindustan Times |language=en}}</ref>

== Industrial ruins in Mithila ==
{{Main|Industrial ruins in Mithila region}}
In the earlier period, [[Mithila (region)|Mithila]] was full of industrial estates. There were many industries in the region in regime of [[Raj Darbhanga|Darbhanga Raj]] Kingdom. These industries were flourishing the economy of the region. After the [[Indian independence movement|independence of India]], the rule of [[Raj Darbhanga|Darbhanga Raj]] Kingdom ended and then the industrial estates of the region started gradually closing due to the negligence of the central government as well as state government of [[Bihar]]. The region was full of many sugar mills, cotton mills, paper industries, chocolate factories and many more agricultural industries. In the last three decades,{{clarify|Which decades?|date=September 2022}} due to the castism politics in [[Bihar]] by the leaders there, the agenda of industrial development got neglected and gradually industries got closed. Nowadays these industrial estates have become ruins. This led to the migrations of labours and human resources from the area to the [[Metropolitan area|metropolitan]] cities of the country.<ref>{{Cite web |title=मधुबनी: पृथक मिथिला राज्य से ही मिथिलांचल का विकास संभव |url=https://www.jagran.com/bihar/muzaffarpur-madhubani-development-of-mithilanchal-is-possible-only-from-separate-mithila-state-22364286.html |access-date=2022-07-16 |website=Dainik Jagran |language=hi}}</ref> The sugar mills of [[Sakri, Madhubani|Sakari]], Lohat, Raiyam and [[Samastipur]] was very famous in the country. [[Mithila (region)|Mithila]] was the bowl of sugar in India three decades ago. [[Hayaghat Assembly constituency|Hayaghat]] was famous for Ashok Paper Industry and similarly [[Pandaul (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Pandaul]] was famous for Cotton mills. Purnea, Saharsa, Katihar, Muzaffarpur and, Darbhanga was famous for Jute industries since 1794 up to 1990.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}
[[File:Mithila Map.jpg|thumb|Proposed Map of Mithila State showing the districts of the proposed state.]]

== Tourism in Mithila ==
[[File:Janaki kund, Sitamarhi, Bihar.jpg|thumb|Janaki Kund, Birthplace of Sita, Parauna Dham, Sitamarhi, Mithila]]{{Main|Tourism in Mithila}}

[[Mithila (region)|Mithila]] is the part of [[Ramayana]], [[Mahabharata]] and ancient Indian philosophy. {{citation needed|date=August 2022}}[[File:Ruins of Rajnagar Madhubani district.jpg|thumb|Ruins of Rajnagar Kingdom in Mithila]]

== References ==
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[[Category:History of social movements]]
[[Category:Regionalism in India]]
[[Category:History of the Mithila region]]

Mithila State Movement - Revision history

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