Murho Estate

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The Murho Estate[1] was a Chieftaincy and later a Zamindari (estate)[2] of Yadav (Ahir)[3] in erstwhile Bhagalpur district of Bihar (now in Madhepura district).[4][5][6]

Murho Estate

1700–1949
Common languagesMaithili,
Hindi
GovernmentZamindari Estate
Zamindar 
• 1750
Babu Panchanan Mandal (first)
• 1941–1949
Babu Bindhyeshwari Prasad Mandal (last)
History 
• Established
1700
• Acceded to India
1949
CurrencyIndian Rupee
 Succeeded by
Dominion of India
Today part ofBihar,
Republic of India
File:Babu Ras Biharilal Mandal.jpg
Babu Ras Bihari Lal Mandal, Zamindar Of Murho Estate.[7]
Rai Bahadur Keshav Prasad Mandal, Honorary Megistrate and Zamindar of Murho-Ranipatti Estate.

The name of the estate derives from a Murho village of Madhepura District.[8][9] Members of the Murho family were very big landlords of the Kosi division.[10]

History[edit]

The Murho Zamindari (Estate) was ruled by Majhraut Clan Of Yadava.[11] It was the largest and respected zamindari estate of Kosi region (Bihar).[12][13]

Rash Bihari Lal Mandal[edit]

Babu Rash Bihari Lal Mandal, Zamindar and Freedom fighter

Babu Rasbihari Lal was an ardent freedom fighter, philanthropist and social reformer.[14] According to litterateur Dr. Bhupendra Narayan Madhepuri, Rasbihari Babu was scholarly in many languages like Hindi, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, English, French and Sanskrit.[15]

Bindheshwari Prasad Mandal[edit]

File:Babu Bp Mandal.jpg
Babu B.P. Mandal, Charmain of Mandal Commission and Ex Chief Minister Of Bihar.

Chairman of Mandal Commission and former Chief Minister of Bihar, Babu B.P. Mandal was born in Murho raj family.[16][17][18] He was the third son of Zamindar Babu Ras Bihari Lal Mandal.[19]

List of Zamindars[edit]

  • Babu Sri Panchanan Mandal was the first chieftain of Murho. He had two sons, of whom the eldest son Paraw Mandal became his successor.
  • Babu Paraw Mandal, He had five sons named Indrajit Mandal, Miterjit Mandal, Ramdhan Mandal, Gurdayal Mandal and Ramdayal Mandal.
  • Babu Ramdayal Mandal became next chief of Zamindari. He had two sons Raghuvardayal and Kishundayal Mandal.
  • Babu Raghuvardayal Mandal became head of zamindari estate in mid 19th century.
  • Babu Rash Bihari lal Mandal (1880-1918), He had three sons, Bhuvneshwari Pd. Mandal, Kamleshwari Pd. Mandal and Bindheshwari Pd. Mandal.[20]
  • Babu Bhuvneshwari Prasad Mandal, he took control of zamindari estate after the death of his father Rash Bihari Lal in 1918. He was member of Bihar-Orissa legislative council in 1924.[21]
  • Babu Kamleshwari Prasad Mandal, he was member of Bihar legislative council in 1937.[22][23][24]
  • Babu Bindheshwari Prasad Mandal, Former Chief Minister of Bihar and Chairman of Backward Classes Commission.

Murho Picture Gallery[edit]

  • Zamindars of Murho.jpg

    Babu Bhuvaneshwari Prasad Mandal with his son Justice Rajeshwar Prasad Mandal.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Department, Bengal (India) Revenue (1909). Report on the Administration of the Wards, Attached and Trust Estates.
  2. ↑ Department, Bengal (India) Revenue (1909). Report on the Administration of the Wards, Attached and Trust Estates.
  3. ↑ "A village that symbolises Bihar". www.rediff.com. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
  4. ↑ Revenue, Bihar and Orissa (India) Board of (1912). Report on Wards', Encumbered, Trust and Attached Estates in the Province of Bihar and Orissa.
  5. ↑ IshIoRNP-BKC.
  6. ↑ Śāstrī, Mahendra Nārāyaṇa Paṅkaja (1994). Apamāna (in हिन्दी). Tūlikā Prakāśana.
  7. ↑ "बाबू रासबिहारी लाल मंडल की पुण्यतिथि मनी". Hindustan (in hindi). Retrieved 8 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  8. ↑ Datta, Kalikinkar (1957). History of the Freedom Movement in Bihar. Government of Bihar.
  9. ↑ "Pin Code: MURHO, MADHEPURA, BIHAR, India, Pincode.net.in". pincode.net.in. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  10. ↑ Witsoe, Jeffrey (5 November 2013). Democracy against Development: Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-06350-8.
  11. ↑ Bihar (India); Choudhury, Pranab Chandra Roy (1957). Bihar District Gazetteers: Bhagalpur. Superintendent, Secretariat Press, Bihar.
  12. ↑ Bihar men samajik parivartan ke kuchh ayam (in हिन्दी). Vani Prakashan. 2001. ISBN 978-81-7055-755-5.
  13. ↑ Singh, Kumar Suresh (1998). India's Communities: H - M. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-563354-2.
  14. ↑ Editor-in-Chief (25 August 2020). "प्रखर स्वतंत्रता सेनानी रासबिहारी मण्डल की पुण्यतिथि पर "द रिपब्लिकन टाइम्स" की अतिथि संपादक प्रसन्ना सिंह राठौर की ✍️ से एक खास प्रस्तुति..." Republican Times. Retrieved 12 February 2022. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  15. ↑ "बाबू रासबिहारी लाल मंडल की पुण्यतिथि मनी". Hindustan (in hindi). Retrieved 8 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  16. ↑ Sinha, Arun (2011). Nitish Kumar and the Rise of Bihar. Penguin Books India. ISBN 978-0-670-08459-3.
  17. ↑ "बिन्देश्वरी प्रसाद मंडल की जीवनी- Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal Biography In Hindi". Newstrend (in हिन्दी). 10 April 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  18. ↑ "In Bihar, the importance of being Nitish Kumar". Hindustan Times. 23 October 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  19. ↑ "मंडल रिपोर्ट ने बदली थी राजनीति की दिशा". Prabhat Khabar - Hindi News (in हिन्दी). Retrieved 12 February 2022.
  20. ↑ Datta, Kalikinkar (1957). History of the Freedom Movement in Bihar. Government of Bihar.
  21. ↑ Sewak, Ram (1985). History of Bihar Between the Two World Wars, 1919-1939. Inter-India Publications. ISBN 978-81-210-0083-3.
  22. ↑ Somanaboina, Simhadri; Ramagoud, Akhileshwari (15 November 2021). The Routledge Handbook of the Other Backward Classes in India: Thought, Movements and Development. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-46280-7.
  23. ↑ Congress, Indian History (1995). Proceedings. Indian History Congress.
  24. ↑ Bihar men samajik parivartan ke kuchh ayam (in हिन्दी). Vani Prakashan. 2001. ISBN 978-81-7055-755-5.
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