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Darbhanga
दरभंगा
City

Darbhanga
Darbhanga
 

Location in Mithila, India

Coordinates: 26.17°N 85.9°E
Country  India
Region Mithila
District Darbhanga
Elevation 52 m (171 ft)
Population (2011)
 • Total 3,921,971
 • Density 1,721/km2 (4,460/sq mi)
 
Languages Maithili
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN 8460xx
Telephone code 06272
Vehicle registration BR 07
Sex ratio 910:1000 /
Lok Sabhaconstituency Darbhanga
Vidhan Sabhaconstituency DarbhangaDarbhanga Rural
 

The history of Darbhanga dates back to the Ramayana and Mahabharata periods; it is among the oldest cities of Bihar. According to the Vedic sources, the Videhasfirst migrated to the area from the banks of Saraswati in Punjab; they were guided to the east of Sadanira (Gandak River) by Agni, the God of Fire. Settlements were established and, thus, flourished the kingdom of the Videhas, the Selfless.

In the course of time Videhas came to be ruled by a line of kings called Janaks. In this line of kings there was a very famous king named Mithi. To commemorate his greatness the territory was named as Mithila. Another famous king was Janak Sirdhwaja, father of Sita. The legends speak of various learned men patronized by Janak Sirdhwaja, who himself was an erudite scholar. Prominent among them were Yagyavalkya, who codified the Hindu law in his Yagyavalkya Smriti and Gautam, who had various valuable philosophical treatises to his credit. King Janak was himself a great philosopher and his ideas have been eternally enshrined in the Upanishads, especially in the Brihad-āraṇyaka Upaniṣada.

The name Darbhanga is the mutated form of "Dwarbanga". That is, it is the combination of words "Dwar" (Gate) and "Banga" (Bengal) meaning "Gateway of Bengal". If one notices Bengali and Maithili, he will find many a phonetic similarities particularly in the main verbs of both the languages which ends with word sounding "Chhe".

Some scholars say that Darbhanga was named after Dar (Dwar) and Bhangaa which means broken gates. It is assumed that the gates of the Qila (at Qilaghat probably) were broken (by cannons or elephants) in 1326 AD when Tughlak forces attacked the last independent North Indian Hindu king.

Hindus began to flock to this town since the beginning of the 19th century when the Maharaja of Darbhanga shifted his residence to the town and was granted the title Maharaja by the East India Company. It was the biggest town of North Bihar for centuries, but after Muzaffarpur was connected to broad-gauge railway in the mid-1970s, the latter overtook Darbhanga due to shift of trade, commerce, business and transport to some extent. Once part of the Brahman kingdom of Mithila, Darbhanga passed to the Tughlaks in the 14th century. The British assumed control in 1765.

Darbhanga was an ancient city of Mithila, which is an ancient cultural region of North India lying between the lower ranges of the Himalayas and the Ganges River. The Nepal border cuts across the top fringe of this region. The Gandak and Kosi River are rough western and eastern boundaries of Mithila.

It was seat of the Maharaja of Darbhanga. During Akbar's reign in the sixteenth century, a second Maithil Brahmin family came to rule as the Khandavala Dynasty. During this period, Akbar also planted 100,000 mango trees in Darbhanga, at a place now known as Lakhi Bagh.[3] In British times, their estate, Darbhanga Raj, was the largest and richest of the great zamindari estates. Their capital was in Bhaur village in Madhubani, later shifted to the town of Darbhanga. They controlled most of Mithila until after Independence when the Republic of India abolished zamindari (Maharaja of Darbhanga was actually a zamindar entitled to add the title Maharaja in his name, besides the British title: KCIE (Knight Commander of Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire).

Maharajah Sir Lakhmeshwar Singh, K.C.I.E., of Darbhanga, who was only in his forty-third year at the time of his death in 1898, was in every sense the best type of the Indian nobleman and landlord. He was the leading zamindar in India, where he owned no less than 2,152 square miles (5,570 km2) with a net yearly rental of 30 lakhs, and was the recognized head of the orthodox Hindu community. His philanthropy and his munificent contributions to all public movement won him the esteem of all classes and creeds. He took an active part in public life and enjoyed a high reputation as a progressive and liberal minded statesman. With but slight interruptions he was a member of the Supreme Legislative Council from the year 1883 until his death, and latterly he sat in that body as the elected representative of the non-official members of the Bengal Council.[4]

The Maharaja of Darbhanga, Sir Kameshwar Singh, was also an integral part of the Constituent Assembly of India and was instrumental in campaigning for retention of privy purses and land rights for rulers. He single handedly negotiated rights of various rulers and nawabs.

Maharaja of Darbhanga also spent much time in today's called kolkata, Bengal. It can be seen in various places as he has built various important places for Bengal, as in Calcutta University Building is "Darbhanga Building" Dalhousie Square and various important buildings there is also made by him. He has made great contributions to Bengal and Indian education and society.

 

Education

Medical College

Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital

Mithila Minority Dental College & Hospital

Salfiya Unani Medical College & Hospital

Sarjug Dental College & Hospital, L Sarai Darbhanga

Sinha Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, L Sarai Darbhanga

Medical Institutions/Nursing in Darbhanga

Khuwaja Garib Nawaz School of Nursing, L Sarai Darbhanga

R B Memorial School of Nursing, L Sarai Darbhanga

University

Lalit Narayan Mithila University

Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University

Indira Gandhi National Open University (Regional Center)

Maulana Azad National Urdu University (Regional Center)

Engineering & Technology College

Women's Institute of Technology

Darbhanga College of Engineering(JMIT)

National Institute Of Information Technology (NIIT) Donar, Darbhanga

ICS, Darbhanga

Polytechnic Colleges

Darbhanga Polytechnic Darbhanga (Bihar Govt)

MANUU Polytechnic Darbhanga (A Central University branch)

I T I College

Govt I T I Darbhanga

MANUU I T I Darbhanga

Haque ITI Loam Darbhanga

Mithila ITI Darbhanga

New Darbhanga Private ITI Darbhanga

Management Institute/ Colleges

Institute of Business Management, Delhi More, Bela, On East-West Corridor, Darbhanga (LNMU)

Law College

C M LAW College Darbhanga (LNMU)

Techer's Training College

Dr Zakir Hussan Techer's Training College Darbhanga

Oriental College of Education Darbhanga

Swami Vivekananda B.Ed Techer's Training College Darbhanga

Dr. Gouri Brahmanand Techer's Training College Darbhanga

S M Zaheer Alam Teacher's Training College Darbhanga

Maulana Azad National Urdu University B.Ed Darbhanga (A central university)

College

C. M. College

C. M. Science College, Darbhanga

Marwari College

Kunwar Singh College

Millat College, Laheriasarai, Darbhanga

M.R.M College

M.L.S.M College

M.K.College, Laheriasarai, Darbhanga

Nagendra Jha Mahila College

and many more..

Schools

Rose Public School

Jesus & Mary Academy Darbhanga

Woodbine Modern School

Holy Cross School, Darbhanga

Madonna English School

Darbhanga Public School

Harrow English School

Public School Bela, Darbhanga

Delhi Public School

Kendriya Vidyalaya, Darbhanga

Don Bosco School, Bibi Pakar

Holy Mission High School, Darbhanga

M L Academy +2 High School

D.A.V Public School

Gyan Bharti Public School

Darbhanga Central School

Gandhi Shikshan Sansthan, Shubhankarpur

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