Madhubani is a City

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and headquarter of

Madhubani district Madhubani district is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar, India, and is a part of Darbhanga division. Its administrative headquarters are located in Madhubani. The district has an area of and has a population of 4,487,379 (as of 2011 ...

. Madhubani is situated in the

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Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West ...

. It comes under Darbhanga Division. It is situated at 26 km northeast of Darbhanga City.The Madhuban Raj in Madhubani was created as a consequence. The word "Madhuban" means "

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" from which Madhubani is derived, but sometimes it is also known as "madhu"+"vaani" meaning "sweet" "voice/language".

Area

* Madhubani occupies a total of 3501 km². * Main Rivers are Kamla, Kareh, Balan, Bhutahi Balan, Gehuan, Supen, Trishula, Jeevachh, Koshi and Adhwara Group. * High Flood Level is 54.017 m. * Whole District is under Earthquake Zone 5. * Total Cropped Area – 218381 Hect. * Barren /Uncultivable Land – 1456.5 Hect * Land under Non-agricultural use – 51273.24 Hect * Cultivable Barren Land – 333.32 Hect * Permanent Pasture – 1372.71 Hect * Miscellaneous Trees – 8835.90 Hect * Cultivable Land – 232724 Hect * Cropping Intensity – 134.23%

Geography

Madhubani Town is located at . It has an average elevation of 56 metres.

Madhubani painting

Madhubani is also famous for its world class paintings popularly called as Mithila paintings. These paintings are created mostly by women. Natural colours are used and paintings are done on canvases, walls, floors of sacred places, etc. The painting is brightly coloured with a mix of several hues, along with a white border to all lines which is a major technique used. This art form originated when Lord Janak asked the villagers to decorate the village to celebrate the wedding of Rama Ji and Sita Ji. The art usually consists of scenes from the Ramayana or depicts Lord Krishan with Gopis. Famous artists include Ms Bharti Dayal from Mithila. Many books and picture books have been made on this artform, such as the one available online.

Demographics

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, Madhubani Town had a population of 166,285. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Madhubani Town has an average literacy rate of 71.06%, just above the national average of 62.39%: male literacy is 78.81%, and female literacy is 53%. In Madhubani Town, 16% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Trade

Laukaha is a nearby town close to the border of Nepalese town of Thadi. Laukaha in India and Thadi in Nepal are a part of one of the agreed route for Mutual Trade between

and

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and import and export to

happen via Laukaha. Government of

has set up a dedicated customs office in the town. and Government of

has set up a Land Customs Station with a Superintendent level officer.

Education

List of colleges offer Higher Education in Madhubani * Ram Krishna College * Madhubani Medical College and Hospital * J N College * Mithila Chitrakala Sansthan * D N Y College

Notable people

Dhirendra Brahmachari Dhirendra Brahmachari (12 February 1924 – 9 June 1994), born Dhirendra Choudhary in village Basaith Chanpura, Madhubani, Bihar, was a yoga teacher of Yogi Bhajan who taught Kundalini Yoga in the West and founded 3HO. Dhirendra Brahmachari w ...

* Arknath Chaudhary * Chandramani Datta * Mahasundari Devi *

Ashish Jha Ashish Kumar Jha (born December 31, 1970) is an Indian-American general internist physician and academic serving as the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator. He is currently on a short-term leave from the Brown University School of Public H ...

Ganganath Jha Sir Gaṅgānāth Jhā (25 December 1872 – 9 November 1941) was a scholar of Sanskrit, Indian philosophy and Buddhist philosophy. Service At the age of 24, he was appointed a librarian of the Darbhanga state by its Maharaja. In 1902, he ...

Narendra Jha Narendra Jha (21 January 1964 14 March 2018) was an Indian actor. He was known for his work in Bollywood productions; his most noted films being '' Haider'', '' Raees'', '' Ghayal Once Again'', '' Hamari Adhuri Kahani'', ''Mohenjodaro'', ''Sh ...

Sriram Jha Sriram Jha (born 18 July 1976) is an Indian chess Grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Cup 2009, for which he qualified by winning the Asian Zone 3.2 Chess Championship earlier in the same year. Sriram Jha played for the bronze medal-wi ...

* Mangani Lal Mandal * Ramprit Mandal *

Ramprit Paswan Ram Prit Paswan is an Indian Politician and Minister of Public Health Engineering Department Government of Bihar. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Bihar. He has won the Bihar Legislative Assembly The Bihar Legislative Asse ...

Chaturanan Mishra Chaturanan Mishra (7 April 1925 – 2 July 2011)''The Economic Times''. Former Minister Chaturanan Mishra passes away' was an Indian politician and trade unionist. Mishra, who was born in Nahar, Madhubani District,Lok Sabha. Biographical Sk ...

* Mohan Mishra *

Prem Chandra Mishra Prem Chandra Mishra is an Indian politician and member of the Bihar Legislative Council. In the elections on 23 March, 11 candidates were elected unopposed. He is also the AICC media panelist. Early life and career Mishra was born on 25 Decem ...

* Maṇḍana Miśra * Amrish Ranjan Pandey * Mohammad Shams Aalam Shaikh * Gajendra Thakur *

Maithili Thakur Maithili Thakur (born 25 July 2000) is an Indian playback singer trained in Indian classical music and Folk Music. She has sung original songs, covers, and traditional folk music prominently in Hindi, Bengali, Maithili, Urdu, Marathi, Bhojpuri ...

Vidyapati Vidyapati ( – 1460), also known by the sobriquet ''Maithil Kavi Kokil'' (the poet cuckoo of Maithili), was a Maithili and Sanskrit polymath-poet-saint, playwright, composer, biographer, philosopher, law-theorist, writer, courtier ...

* Devendra Prasad Yadav

References

External links

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Bihar Govt. Official Web Site
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