Tirhut division
Tirhut division 𑂞𑂲𑂩𑂯𑂳𑂞 | |
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Division | |
 Location of Tirhut division in Bihar | |
| Coordinates: 26°04′N 85°27′E / 26.07°N 85.45°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Bihar |
| Established | 1908 |
| Headquarters | Muzaffarpur |
| Districts | Vaishali Sheohar Sitamarhi Muzaffarpur East Champaran West Champaran |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 21,356,045 |
| Website | Official website[dead link] |
Tirhut Division or Tirhut Commissionary[1] is an administrative-geographical unit of Bihar in India. Muzaffarpur is the headquarters of the Division. The Division comprises six districts -- Muzaffarpur, West Champaran (headquartered at Bettiah), East Champaran (headquartered at Motihari), Vaishali (headquartered at Hajipur), Sitamarhi and Sheohar.
The administrative head of Tirhut Division is a Commissioner, a senior officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). Tirhut's present Divisional Commissioner is Shri Pankaj Kumar, an IAS officer of the Bihar cadre.
Khudi Ram Bose, Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi, Manzoor Ahsan Ajazi, Bhagwan Das, Juba Sahni, Raj Kumar Shukla, Ramdayalu Singh, Mathura Singh, Binda Babu and Mahesh Babu were some of the freedom fighters of Tirhut.
Mahatma Gandhi launched his struggle for independence from the East Champaran or Motihari district of this Division in 1916. It was the Karma Bhoomi of Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Acharya J.B. Kripalani and Jayprakash Narayan. Motihari is the birthplace of famous writer George Orwell.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ about tirhut divsiontirhut-muzaffarpur.bih.nic.in[dead link]
- ^ Crick, Bernard (2004). "Eric Arthur Blair [pseud. George Orwell] (1903–1950)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford, England, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. The commissioner proceeded to bully gandhi and advised him forthwith to leave tirhut.
External links[edit]
- Official website Archived 16 March 2015 at the Wayback Machine