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Champaran
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Champaran | |
|---|---|
Region | |
  Champaran Location in Bihar, India  Champaran Champaran (Bihar) | |
| Coordinates: 26°50′37″N 84°40′57″E / 26.8437°N 84.6826°ECoordinates: 26°50′37″N 84°40′57″E / 26.8437°N 84.6826°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Bihar |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
Champaran is a region which now forms the East Champaran district, and the West Champaran district in Bihar, India.
Notable people[edit]
- 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
References[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- "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