Banaras Hindu University (BHU), formerly Benares Hindu University, is a collegiate, central, and research university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, and founded in 1916. The university incorporated the Central Hindu College, which had been founded by theosophist and future Indian Home Rule leader Annie Besant in 1898. By 1911 Besant was marginalised on the governing board of the College by Madan Mohan Malviya who preferred a more traditional Hinduism with its hereditary caste system to Besant's more theosophical one. Five years later Malaviya established the university with the support of the maharaja of Darbhanga Rameshwar Singh, the maharaja of Benares Prabhu Narayan Singh, and the lawyer Sunder Lal.
Darbhanga is the fifth largest city and municipal corporation in the state of Bihar in India, and is considered an important city in North Bihar. It serves as the headquarters of the Darbhanga district and the Darbhanga division. It is held that the name Darbhanga has been derived from Dwar Banga or Dari – Banga, meaning the 'door of Bengal'.
Samastipur is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar in India. The district headquarters are located at Samastipur. The district occupies an area of 2904 km² and has a population of 4,261,566.
Lalit Narayan Mishra was an Indian politician who served as Minister of Railways in the government of India from 1973 to 1975. He was brought into politics by the first Chief Minister of Bihar, Sri Krishna Sinha, when he was made parliamentary secretary at his insistence to the First Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. In 1975, he died in a bomb blast at Samastipur railway station. The court case against the perpetrators was delayed for years and was finally completed in December 2014.
Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith is a public university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. Established on 10 February 1921 as Kashi Vidyapith and later renamed, it is administered under the state legislature of the government of Uttar Pradesh. It got University status in 1974 as Deemed to be University and State University status in 2009 by The Uttar Pradesh State Universities (Amendment) Act, 2008. The university has more than 400+ affiliated colleges spread over six districts. It is one of the largest state universities in Uttar Pradesh, with hundreds of thousands of students, both rural and urban. It offers a range of professional and academic courses in arts, science, commerce, agriculture science, law, computing and management.
Nargona Palace is situated at Darbhanga in State of Bihar, India. This Palace was the last royal Brahmin palace to be built in Raj Darbhanga.
Rose Public School, also known as RPS is a private secondary school in the Mithilanchal region of the Indian state of Bihar. It was established by Dr. Rajiv Ranjan, and is presently being run by a trust set up by him. It is a co-educational day and boarding school with around 7,000 students spread across Darbhanga, Laheriasarai and Madhubani. Rose Public School is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, based in New Delhi.
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Women's Institute of Technology is an engineering college in the Indian state of Bihar. Established in 2005, it is affiliated with Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga approved by AICTE New Delhi and the government of Bihar. It is spread over 25 acres of land in the town of Darbhanga.
Darbhanga College of Engineering is a government-owned engineering (B.Tech.) college in Bihar, India. It was inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, in 2008. It is affiliated with the Bihar Engineering University (BEU), Patna and approved by the AICTE. The college is administered by Department of Science and Technology, Bihar.
Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University is one of India's premier agricultural colleges located in Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh state. It is one of the three institutes of the Banaras Hindu University.
Ram Krishna College is a constituent college of Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga. It was established in 1940. The college is Re-Accredited by NAAC by Grade-B. At present, the college imparts both Graduate and Post Graduate education to student across all the three facilities i.e. Arts, Science and Commerce. This college has separate blocks for Arts, Science and Commerce blocks, Administrative blocks.
Ram Harsh Singh is an Indian practitioner of the Ayurveda system of alternative medicine and the founder vice chancellor of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Rajasthan Ayurved University. An Emeritus Professor of Banaras Hindu University and a National Professor of the Ministry of AYUSH of the Government of India, he was conferred with the fourth highest civilian honour of Padma Shri, in 2016.
Mithila Student Union (MSU) (Maithili : मिथिला स्टूडेंट यूनियन) is a non-political student organisation whose sole purpose is the development of Mithila and Maithils living in India. It is one of the largest student organisations in Bihar. It is a registered organization under the provisions of the Societies Registration Act, 1860 under the Indian constitution. Anup Maithil is the founder president of Mithila Student Union. They mostly keep Mithila Art Boarded Maroon Gamchha on their Sholder which is the Symbol of Passion, Love, Bravery and Courage.
Saket Kushwaha is an Indian educationist and Agricultural economist. He served as Vice Chancellor (VC) of Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh and former Vice Chancellor of Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Bihar. He is a Professor of Agricultural Economics at the Banaras Hindu University, on lien.
Nirmala S Maurya is the first woman Vice Chancellor of Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh who served the office from August 2020 till August 2023. Former Registrar of Higher Education and Research Institute, Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha, Madras. Her father, Surendra Singh Kushwaha, was a professor in the physics department of Banaras Hindu University and also served as VC of Ranchi University, Jharkhand and Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Uttar Pradesh, and her brother Saket Kushwaha served as vice chancellor of Lalit Narayan Mithila University from 2014 to 2017 and also served as vice chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University from 2018 to 2024.
Dilip Kumar Choudhary is an Indian politician from Darbhanga Graduate Constituency in Bihar. He was a Member of the Bihar Legislative Council two times, since 2007 and 2014. From the year 1990 to 2002, he was a councillor of Darbhanga Municipal Corporation. He completed his master's degree in chemistry subject from Lalit Narayan Mithila University and Ph.D. from Allahabad University. Choudhary is a professor of chemistry in Chandradhari Mithila Vigyan Mahavidyalaya at Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga. Since February 2022, he is also principal of C.M. Science College along with the charge of C. M. Law College, Darbhanga. His father, Late Dr. Nilambar Chaudhary was also a Senior Leader of the Indian National Congress and a member of the Bihar Legislative Council multiple times from Darbhanga Graduate Constituency.
Mukesh Mishra born in Darbhanga is an Indian former professional karate player from Bihar and currently work as coach. He coached Lalit Narayan Mithila University Karate Team in All India Inter University Games, Bihar Karate Team in National School Games and National Federation Championships.
