Champaran
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 | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Bihar |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
Notable people
- Manoj Bajpai – Indian film actor
- Dinesh Bhramar – poet and noted figure in Hindi and Bhojpuri literature
- Anuranjan Jha – Indian journalist
- Prakash Jha – Indian filmmaker
- Ramesh Chandra Jha – Indian poet, novelist and freedom fighter
- Abdullah Khan – novelist and screenwriter
- Ravish Kumar – Indian journalist
- Gopal Singh Nepali – Indian poet of Hindi literature, Bollywood lyricist
- George Orwell – English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic
- Kedar Pandey – Congress leader and ex-Chief Minister of Bihar
- Afroz Alam Sahil – Indian journalist
- Raj Kumar Shukla – indigo cultivator, activist
- Radha Mohan Singh – Indian politician
- Anugrah Narayan Sinha – lawyer, Gandhian, freedom fighter
References
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
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