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Araria

Araria in Bihar. Explore its public directory, history, places, personalities and election references.

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Local stories, places and livelihoods, with the original sources close at hand.

Araria district is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar state, India. Araria district is a part of Purnia division. The district occupies an area of 2,830 km2 (1,090 sq mi). Araria town is the administrative headquarters of this district. The Indo–Nepal border is about 8 km from Forbesganj headquarters.

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History & identity

The story of Araria

Araria district is a part of the Mithila region. Mithila first gained prominence after being settled by Indo-Aryan peoples who established the Mithila Kingdom (also called Kingdom of the Videhas). During the late Vedic period (c. 1100–500 BCE), Kingdom of the Videhas became one of the major political and cultural centers of South Asia, along with Kuru and Pañcāla. The kings of the Kingdom of the Videhas were called Janakas. The Mithila Kingdom was later incorporated into the Vajjika League, which had its capital in the city of Vaishali, which is also in Mithila. The territory of the district became...

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Araria: food, crops, crafts & local products

Food processing · PMFME ODOP

Makhana (Foxnut)

The Ministry of Food Processing Industries lists these food-product priorities for this district in its dated PMFME One District One Product record. This identifies programme focus, rather than current crop output or the district’s complete food culture.

District name in source: Araria
Source date: 2025-02-06

District products · ODOP reference

Makhana
Jute

These products appear against this district in the linked One District One Product catalogue. They are documented product associations, rather than a current industrial census or a complete list of local businesses.

District name in source: Araria
Source date: 2025-08-19

People connected with Araria

8 public personality references

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Achmit Rishidev

Achmit Rishidev is an Indian politician from Bihar and a member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly. Rishidev won the Raniganj assembly constituency on the JD(U) ticket in the 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly...

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Dumar Lal Baitha

Dumar Lal Baitha (1924-1997) was an Indian politician, agriculturist and lawyer. He was elected to the Lower House of the Indian Parliament, the Lok Sabha, from Araria, Bihar as a member of...

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Laxmi Mehta

Laxmi Narayan Mehta is a former member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly from Bihar, India. He is from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and represents the Forbesganj Assembly constituency. Mehta is a...

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Moshtaque Ahmad Noori

Moshtaque Ahmad Noori (Urdu: مشتاق احمد نوری) (born 7 May 1950) is an Indian Urdu short story writer and critic. His works include short stories, Ghazals and nazm.

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Phanishwar Nath 'Renu'

Phanishwar Nath Mandal 'Renu' (4 March 1921 – 11 April 1977) was one of the most successful and influential writers of modern Hindi literature in the post-Premchand era. He is the author...

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Rajendra Prasad Gupta

Rajendra Prasad Gupta is an Indian politician and current member of the Bihar Legislative Council from the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was first nominated as a member of the Bihar Legislative Council...

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Sarfaraz Alam

Sarfraz Alam is an Indian politician who represented the Araria seat of Bihar in the Indian Parliament as a candidate of the Rashtriya Janata Dal from 2018 to 2019. He also served...

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Vidya Sagar Keshri

Vidya Sagar Keshri is a politician, social worker and an educationist coming from town Forbesganj of Araria, Bihar. He was active as a student leader during his initial years in college politics....

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Araria: official travel, agriculture & local information

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