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Kaushalendra Kumar
Kaushalendra Kumar is a Member of Parliament for the Nalanda (Lok Sabha constituency), Nalanda constituency of the India Lok Sabha. He is a representative of the Janata Dal (United) party. He was first elected to the Lok Sabha in the 2009 Indian general election, when he succeeded and was nominated by Nitish Kumar in the constituency. He again won the Nalanda (Lok Sabha constituency), Nalanda seat in the 2014 Indian general election. He won by a narrow margin of 9,627 votes. In the 2019 Indian general election, 2019 general election, he got a record 540,888 votes and defeated his nearest rival by 256,137 votes. Personal life He is a supporter of Agrarian reform, agrarian and Social reformer, social reform. His father was a farmer. Kaushalendra Kumar is married to Raveena Kumari in 1979. The couple has two sons. His wife is a District Councils of India, District Council member from Nalanda. He is a member of Kurmi caste. See also * Nitish Kumar * Nalanda District * Janata Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nalanda District
Nalanda district is one of the thirty-eight Districts of Bihar, districts of the state of Bihar in India. Bihar Sharif is the administrative headquarters of this district. The districts is home to the ancient Nalanda Mahavihara a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Nalanda is located in the Magadh region of southern Bihar. In Jainism * The 24th Jainism, Jaina Tirthankara Mahavira, ''Mahāvīra'' is said to have spent 'many Chaturmasya, ''Cāturmāsyas'' (rainy seasons)' at ''Nālandā''. Canonical scriptures of the ''Śvetāmbara'' sect also mention that ''Nālandā'' was known by other names such as ''Nālandāpada'' and ''Nālandā Sanniveśa''. The texts further highlight that it was a suburb of ''Rajgir, Rājagṛha''. ''Mahāvīra'' is said to have had met ''Makkhali Gosala, Makkhali-gosāla'', the leader of the Ājīvika, ''Ājīvakas'', for the first time at ''Nālandā''. * Jaina tradition records that some of ''Mahāvīra's Ganadhara, Gaṇadharas'' (disciples), namely ''Gautama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurmi
Kurmi is traditionally a non-elite tiller caste in the lower Gangetic plain of India, especially southern regions of Awadh, eastern Uttar Pradesh and parts of Bihar and Jharkhand. The Kurmis came to be known for their exceptional work ethic, superior tillage and manuring, and gender-neutral culture, bringing praise from Mughal and British administrators alike. Etymology There are several late-19th century theories of the etymology of ''Kurmi''. According to Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya (1896), the word may be derived from an Indian tribal language, or be a Sanskrit compound term ''krishi karmi'', "agriculturalist." A theory of Gustav Salomon Oppert (1893) holds that it may be derived from ''kṛṣmi'', meaning "ploughman". According to Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1926), the Bengali word ''kuṛmī'' or ''kurmī'' derives from Sanskrit ''kuṭumbin''. This view is endorsed in Ralph Lilley Turner's ''A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages'' (1962–1985), where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
