Shahabad district
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Shahabad district or Arrah district, headquartered at
Buxar District
from Bhojpur in 1992.
Historically, the geographic area was the eastern part of the
Magadh
.
Present status
The districts in erstwhile Shahabad are as follows:
- Bhojpur District headquartered at Arrah
- Rohtas District headquartered at Sasaram
- Kaimur District headquartered at Bhabua
- Buxar District headquartered at Buxar
All four above districts fall under the
Patna Division
along with Patna and Nalanda District.
Notable persons
- Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobagoand first woman Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (great-grandfather is from Shahabad)
- Chief Minister of Mauritius(father from Shahabad)
- Navin Ramgoolam, Former Prime Minister of Mauritius (grandfather from Shahabad)
- Anerood Jugnauth, Former Prime Minister of Mauritius (grandfather is from Shahabad)
- Pravind Jugnauth, Present Prime Minister of Mauritius (great-grandfather is from Shahabad)
- Sher Shah Suri, Founder of Sur Dynasty who had built Grand Trunk Road
- Ustad Bismillah Khan, shehnai maestro and recipient of Bharat Ratna
- Babu Jagjivan Ram, fourth Deputy PM and longest-serving union minister of India
- Meira Kumar, retd. Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer & first woman Lok Sabha Speaker.
- Ram Subhag Singh, Railway Minister of India from 14 February 1969 to 4 November 1969
- Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha, sixth Chief Justice of India
- Bisheshwar Prasad Singh, former Chief Justice of Bombay High Court
- Anil Sinha, Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and current Director of CBI
- Srimat Pandey, Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer 1984 batch. Former Principal Secretary of Rajasthan.
- Bindeshwari Dubey, 21st Chief Minister of Bihar & former Union Minister of India
- Anant Sharma, former Union Minister, and Governor of Punjab and West Bengal state
- 2014 Elections
- Vinay Pathak, Bollywood actor
- Bihar Government
- Manoj Tiwari, Member of Parliament & one of the two Bhojpuri cinema superstar
- Vashishtha Narayan Singh, Indian mathematician and former NASA scientist
- Veer Kunwar Singh, the Indian freedom fighter who fought the British at the age of 80
- Sardar Harihar Singh, Former Chief Minister of Bihar (From Chaungain)
- Abdul Qaiyum Ansari; Freedom fighter, President of All India Momin conference through which he fought against Jinnah's two-nation theory, former cabinet minister of Bihar, member of parliament
- Rajkumar Shahabadi, a film producer from Shahabad who produced Bhojpuri cinema's first film, Ganga Maiyya Tohe Piyari Chadhaibo. Rajkumar Shahabadi, his son, is also a film producer and his granddaughter, Sheena Shahabadi, is an actress.
References
- ^ "Buxar at a glance". Bihar Government. Retrieved 14 January 2012.