Champaran

For the village in Chhattisgarh, see Champaran, Chhattisgarh.

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 / 26.8437; 84.6826
Country	India
State	Bihar
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)

Notable people

• Abdullah Khan – Novelist and Screenwriter
• Afroz Alam Sahil – Indian journalist
• Anuranjan Jha – Indian journalist
• Anugrah Narayan Sinha – Lawyer, Gandhian, freedom fighter
• Dinesh Bhramar – Poet and noted figure in Hindi and Bhojpuri literature
• George Orwell – English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic
• Gopal Singh Nepali – Indian poet of Hindi literature, Bollywood lyricist
• Manoj Bajpai – Indian film actor
• Prakash Jha – Indian filmaker
• Radha Mohan Singh – Indian politician
• Raj Kumar Shukla – Indigo cultivator, activist
• Ramesh Chandra Jha – Indian poet, novelist and freedom fighter
• Ravish Kumar – Indian journalist
• Kedar Pandey - A congress Leader and Ex Chief Minister of Bihar

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