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Sightseeing Highlights
Visit the Mahatma
Gandhi Museum and Stone Pillar that details and highlights the past
presents of Mahatma Gandhi in Motihari. You can also visit the surrounding
schools started by him. Don?t miss the monument built for honouring the famous
writer, George Orwell.
There are other monuments dedicated
to Khan Bahadur Azizul Huq.
Other Activities
See
the Tallest Buddha Stupa in the
world. Visit the local Buddhist temples and Hindu Temples. Shop around
the city of Motihari
for the local homemade crafts and gifts, clothes and traditional Indian jewellery
made by the local artists. Tourist Information:
Bihar State Tourism Development
Corporation
Beerchand Patel Path,
Patna ? 800 001. India.
Phone ? 91-612-2225411
Fax ? 91-612-2210242
Email bstdc@sancharnet.in Motihari,
Bihar is located in the East Champaran district
of Bihar. It is located 120 km. from the capital city of Patna. This small town traces its roots into
prominence when Mahatma Gandhi
began his 'Satygrah' against Indigo plantation here. On April 10th,
1917, Mahatma Gandhi came in to fight for the freedom of the farmers and their
right to making a decent livelihood.
Approximately
20 km. east of Motihari, Mahatma Gandhi opened the first Barharwa
Lakhansen School
which would serve as a pioneer to other schools that were built in the state of
Bihar. Mahatama Gandhi?s dedication was an
inspiration to the locals and today a stone pillar and a museum has been built to
honour Mahatma Gandhi.
Motihari
is also famous for being the birthplace of one of the twentieth Century's
greatest writers - George Orwell. Although he was born in Motihari, his mother
a year after, took George to live in England.
The
famous inventor of police fingerprint design and discovery, Khan Bahadur Azizul
Huq, settled in Motihari after his retirement and was later buried there.
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