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Sursand
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An ancient temple in Sursand
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Sursand
Location in Bihar, India
Coordinates: 26°39′0″N85°43′0″E / 26.65000°N 85.71667°E / 26.65000; 85.71667
CountryFlag of India.svg  India
State Bihar
Region Mithila
District Sitamarhi
Government
  Type Nagar Panchayat
Elevation
[1]
55 m (180 ft)
Population
 (2011)
  Total29,688
Languages
  Official Bajjika, Hindi
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
Vehicle registration BR-30
Coastline0 kilometres (0 mi)

Sursand or Sursand Raj is an Indian town in the Mithila region of Bihar near the Indo-Nepal border. It is about 25 kilometres away from Sitamarhi, the district headquarters, and approximately 5 kilometers away from Bhitthamore. [2]

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History

The village has the ruins of a fortress known as Sursandgarh, which was constructed during the Mughal period by King Sursen. [3]

According to an account published in the Bengal District Gazetteers,

The name of the place is said to be derived from Sur Sen, a chieftain who once lived there. After his death, it lapsed once more into jungle, until it was reclaimed by two brothers—Mahesh Jha and Amar Jha, the founders of the present Sursand family. These brothers, the story runs, left their home at Ghograha, in the district of Darbhanga, and came to settle at Jadupati, a village belonging to them, 8 miles from Sursand. One day Mahesh Jha went with his astrologer to hunt in the woods at Sursand, and came across the ruins of Sur Sen's fort. The astrologer having told him that the man who made a home there would be a Raja, Mahesh Jha acted on his advice and cleared the jungle. The several branches of the Sursand family sprang from his son, Chaudhri Kelwal Krishna. Amar Jha's branch did not prosper, and his descendants are impoverished. Chaudhri Hirdai Narayan, a descendant of the elder branch, added largely to the family estates. [4]

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Sursand Palace in ruins

Archaeological geography

In the outskirts of the modern town, the area locally known as Garh Devi Sthan has a three-metre high circular mound covering about two acres of ground. [5]

Notable people

Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra served as the Union Deputy Minister for Planning from 1954 to 1962.

Schools and College

Jawahar Lal Neharu Memorial College, Nawahi, Sitamarhi

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