Gamharia is a village in the

Gaya district } Gaya district is one of the thirty-eight districts of the Indian state of Bihar. It was officially established on 3 October 1865. The district has a common boundary with the state of Jharkhand to the south. Gaya city is both the district head ...

of the Indian state of

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Be ...

Commerce

The main markets are Sherghati, Chandiastan, Darioura and Gola Bazar (among the largest

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markets in Bihar).

History

Gamharia experienced an Indian socialist revolution where the late Sri Tileswar Singh began his dramatically violent protests against the British in India. His son, Late Sri Kedar Singh, works on development of the panchayat and became Mukhiya of Guneri Panchayat six consecutive times, earning him the nickname 'Mukhiyaji' after the Bihar Panchayat Election.

Notables

* Dr. Rajendra Prasad * Sri Tileshwar Singh * Sri Kedar Singh ( Mukhiyaji) * Shakil Ahmad of Sihuli, former MLA of Gurua. * Aditya Prasad (of the Sherghati Darbar House) was among the first in town to get a degree in engineering, in London in 1924. * Subodh Kumar Gupta I.A.S.

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . It ...

Cadre * Professor Sheo Kumar Singh ( Department of Sociology) * Storyteller Prabhat Manjudarshi * Professor Deepak Kumar Singh

Geography

It is about from Gaya, situated on Sher Shah Suri Marg (GT Road) between Kolkata and Delhi and is surrounded by the Kamaun range. National Highway 2 passes through Gamharia, along with State highway 69. It is located on the Amritsar Delhi Kolkata industrial corridor.

Transport

Roadways

The

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(NH-2) has undergone a revival through The Golden Quadrilateral project) crosses from Gamharia.

Rail

The nearest Railway Station, Gaya, is connected to

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Ranchi Ranchi (, ) is the capital of the Indian state of Jharkhand. Ranchi was the centre of the Jharkhand movement, which called for a separate state for the tribal regions of South Bihar, northern Odisha, western West Bengal and the eastern area ...

Jamshedpur Jamshedpur (, ) or Tatanagar is the largest and most populous city in Jharkhand and the first planned industrial city in India. It is a Notified Area Council and Municipal Corporation and also the headquarter of the East Singhbhum district. It ...

, Bokaro, Rourkela, Hazaribag,

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Airports

The nearest airport is

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, the only international airport in

and

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Drukair Drukair Corporation Limited ( dz, འབྲུག་མཁའ་འགྲུལ་ལས་འཛིན།), operating as Drukair — Royal Bhutan Airlines, is the flag carrier of the Kingdom of Bhutan, headquartered in the western dzongkha ...

and

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connect Gaya to international destinations. Gaya Airport is 5 km from Bodh-Gaya.

Cuisine

Gamharia prefers a traditional Bihari cuisine. The most popular dishes include , , , , , , , and . Local Muslims are fond of (meat cooked in mud vessels by burying them partially into the ground and eliminating metal from the cooking experience), , , etc.

Education

The educational climate in Chandisthan has improved (at least at the school level) since

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opened its branch in town (around 1992). Locals tend to search elsewhere for higher studies.

Schools

* Anugrah Narayan Shahdev High School (''Suggi, Chandisthan'') * Zenith Public School (''Chandisthan'') * Lakshami Devi Sarswati Shishu Mandir (''Karamdih, Chandisthan'') * Urdu Publick School (''Gamharia'') * Dr Zaheer Tishna Memorial School (co-education) Dr Zaheer Tishna Memorial School * Ranglal High School (''

Sherghati Sherghati is a town in the Gaya district in Bihar (formally Magadha ), India. The Morhar River surrounds it. A meteorite that came from Mars fell here on 25 August 1865; it is now kept in a London museum and is known as the Shergotty meteorit ...

'') * DAV Public School (co-education) * Gurukul Residential School (''

'') * Ramlal & Syam Lal Sanskrit Vidyalaya (Mahmadpur) * Gyan Deep Public School (''

'') * Heaven flower academy, jail road, Hamzapur, (''

'')

Universities and colleges

* Shri Mahant Shatanand Giri College (Hamzapur, ''

'') * Colour craft- A School of Designing & Printing

References

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