Darbhanga
Darbhanga is the fifth-largest city and municipal corporation in the Indian state of Bihar situated centrally in Mithila region.
Darbhanga is the headquarters of the Darbhanga district and the Darbhanga division. It was the seat of the erstw ...
. He qualified as a lawyer in 1856 and was made an honorary magistrate in 1877. He later worked in the court of
Raj Darbhanga
The Darbhanga Raj, also known as Raj Darbhanga and the Khandwala dynasty, was a Maithil Brahmins dynasty and the rulers of territories, not all contiguous, that were part of the Mithila region, now divided between India and Nepal.
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. He was well versed in Maithili, Hindi, Urdu, Persian and Arabic.
In his Aina-i-Tirhut, he was very conscious of the distinct history and culture of Mithila and he asserts that:
His book was one of the pioneering works in recording the history of Mithila.