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Zamindari Estate of British India From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Murho Estate was a chieftaincy and later a zamindari (estate) of Yadav (Ahir)[1][2] in erstwhile Bhagalpur district of Bihar (now in Madhepura district).[3][4]
Murho Estate | |||||||
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1700–1949 | |||||||
Common languages | Thēthi, Hindi | ||||||
Government | Zamindari Estate | ||||||
Zamindar | |||||||
• Unknown | Babu Panchanan Mandal (first) | ||||||
• 1919–1949 | Babu Bhuvaneshvari Prasad Mandal (last) | ||||||
History | |||||||
• Established | 1700 | ||||||
• Zamindari Abolition | 1949 | ||||||
Currency | Indian Rupee | ||||||
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Today part of | Bihar, Republic of India |
The name of the estate derives from a Murho village of Madhepura District.[6][7] Members of the Murho family were very big landlords of the Kosi division.[8]
The Murho Zamindari (Estate) was ruled by Majhraut clan of Yadava.[9]
Babu Rasbihari Lal was an ardent freedom fighter, philanthropist and social reformer.[10] According to litterateur Dr. Bhupendra Narayan Madhepuri, Rasbihari Babu was scholarly in many languages like Hindi, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, English, French and Sanskrit.[11]
Chairman of Mandal Commission and former Chief Minister of Bihar, Babu B.P. Mandal was born in Murho raj family.[12][13][14] He was the third son of Zamindar Babu Ras Bihari Lal Mandal.[15]
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