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clean up, typo(s) fixed: 1896-97 → 1896–97

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'''Mokama Ghat''' is a village about four kilometres east of [[Mokama]] on the bank of the river [[Ganges|Ganga]] in [[Bihar]], India.

==Importance==
The Hindi word "Ghat" means "bank of a river which is used by people for bathing or transportation of passengers and goods".<ref>{{cite news |title=Majuli passengers harassed by lessees People charged extra money mid-river |url=http://vv.telegraphindia.com/1120209/jsp/northeast/story_15109272.jsp |newspaper=The Telegraph, Calcutta, India |date=9 February 2012 |accessdate=5 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120519021612/http://vv.telegraphindia.com/1120209/jsp/northeast/story_15109272.jsp |archive-date=19 May 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=
Industrial Archaeology at Aapravasi Ghat: goods, ports and people histories |first=Diego | last=Calaon |url=https://unive.academia.edu/DiegoCalaon/Papers/1132265/Industrial_Archaeology_at_Aapravasi_Ghat_goods_ports_and_people_histories |newspaper=the Aapravasi Ghat Trust Founf Newsletter |year=2011 |accessdate=5 March 2012}}</ref> [[Mokama]] Ghat was used for ferrying cargo and passengers by ships across the river to the north eastern parts of India. It was linked by rail to Mokama, and was once an important railway station<ref>{{cite book |title=First spark of revolution: the early phase of India's struggle for independence, 1900-1920 |first=Arun Chandra |last=Guha |year=1971 |page=131 |publisher=Orient Longman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3oi6yfbzEGMC&q=mokama+ghat&dq=mokama+ghat&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ytJET9r3GoHYrQf-h7DWDw&redir_esc=y |accessdate=3 March 2012}}</ref> under the Danapur division of the [[East Central Railway Zone]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://danapurdivision.in/IT_Spark_Solutions_Historical%20Perspective.html |title=History of Danapur Division |year=2009 |publisher=Danapur Division |accessdate=4 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211214522/http://danapurdivision.in/IT_Spark_Solutions_Historical%20Perspective.html |archive-date=11 February 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was also linked by road. The passengers and goods would be carried by either road or rail to Mokama Ghat, where they would be transported by ship<ref>{{cite book|first=Malabika |last=Chakrabarti|title=The famine of 1896-1897 in Bengal: availability or entitlement crisis?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J3R6umYMROsC&pg=PA415|year=2004|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-250-2389-0|pages=415– |accessdate=4 March 2012}}</ref> across the river to Simaria Ghat.

==History==
Until the first half of 20th century, Mokama Ghat was an important trade and transport link in eastern India. Malabika Chakrabarti mentions the congestion at Mokama railway Ghat in May 1897 as one of the reasons for the failure of the supply of grains during the Bengal famine of 1896–97 in her book on the said famine.<ref>{{cite book|first=Malabika |last=Chakrabarti|title=The famine of 1896-1897 in Bengal: availability or entitlement crisis?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J3R6umYMROsC&pg=PA415|year=2004|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-250-2389-0|pages=415, 463 |accessdate=4 March 2012}}</ref> After the construction of [[Rajendra Setu]], which was both a road and rail bridge, that importance was lost.{{citation needed|date=March 2012}}

Naturalist and writer [[Jim Corbett]] worked at Mokama Ghat railway station in the early part of 20th century.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Quarterly review of historical studies, Volumes 35-36 |author=Institute of Historical Studies (Calcutta, India) |year=1995 |publisher=Institute of Historical Studies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AuQrAQAAIAAJ |accessdate= 3 March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indiaprofile.com/transportation/railways/famousrailwaymen.htm |title=Tracking the Luminaries – Famous Railway Men(Jim Corbett) |publisher= Indian Holiday Pvt. Ltd |accessdate=4 March 2012}}</ref> When he was eighteen he joined the railways at Mokama Ghat, working as fuel inspector and assistant station master. Later he became a labour contractor there.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jimcorbettnationalpark.com/corbett_coljim.asp |title=Colonel Jim Corbett |author=Jim Corbett National Park |year= 2002|publisher=Jim Corbett National Park |accessdate=4 March 2012}}</ref> Jim Corbett established a school for the children of the staff of the Railways at Mokama Ghat with the help of an 'educationist' named Mr. Ram Saran.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/stream/MyIndia1952#page/n182/mode/1up/search/life+at+mokama+ghat |title=My India |first=Jim | last=Corbett |year= 1952|page= 183 |accessdate=17 May 2018}}</ref>

Mokama Ghat was brought to the map of the struggle for Indian independence in 1908 when [[Prafulla Chaki]] was spotted at Mokama Ghat railway station<ref>{{cite book |title=First spark of revolution: the early phase of India's struggle for independence, 1900-1920 |first=Arun Chandra | last=Guha |year=1971 |publisher=Orient Longman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3oi6yfbzEGMC&q=mokama+ghat&dq=mokama+ghat&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ytJET9r3GoHYrQf-h7DWDw&redir_esc=y |accessdate= 3 March 2012}}</ref> while he was trying to escape after throwing a bomb at a carriage at Muzaffarpur on 30 April 1908 in which a European lady, Mrs. Kennedy and her daughter were killed. After a standoff with police, Chaki shot himself.<ref>{{cite book |title=Decades of daring deeds |first=Satyavrata |last=Ghosh |year=1991 |publisher=B. R. Pub. Corp |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Z5HAAAAMAAJ |accessdate=4 March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.midnapore.in/khudiram_bose.html |title=Khudiram Bose |publisher=midnapore.in |accessdate=4 March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Socio-cultural study of a minority linguistic group: Bengalees in Bihar, 1858-1912 |first=Sudeshna | last=Basak |pages=152, 153|year=1991 |publisher=B.R. Pub. Corp |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=laksAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Mokama+Ghat%22&dq=%22Mokama+Ghat%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=L1VST-iON8byrQfkotjYDQ&redir_esc=y |accessdate= 4 March 2012}}</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
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* {{cite book|author=Shreedhar Narayan Pandey|title=Education and social changes in Bihar, 1900-1921: a survey of social history of Bihar from Lord Curzon to noncooperation movement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9uAJAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=4 March 2012|year=1975|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=978-0-8426-0986-9}}
* {{cite book|author=Satish Chandra Singh|title=Changes in the course of rivers & their effects on urban settlements in the Middle Ganga Plain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MC5XAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=4 March 2012|year=1973|publisher=National Geographical Society of India}}
* {{cite book|author=Shreeram Prasad Upadhyaya|title=Indo-Nepal trade relations: a historical analysis of Nepal's trade with the British India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_oVAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=4 March 2012|date=1 January 1992|publisher=Nirala Publications}}
* {{cite book|author=Anandmurti |title=Shabda cayanika, Volume 1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NJBjAAAAMAAJ&q=mokama+ghat&dq=mokama+ghat&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GQ_0UImiBcrClQWSi4CgDA&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBA |accessdate=14 January 2013|year=1996 |publisher=Ananda Marga Publications}}

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[[Category:Villages in Patna district]]

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