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Jharia Raj High School is the oldest higher secondary school in
Dhanbad district Dhanbad district is one of the twenty-four districts of Jharkhand state, India, and Dhanbad is the administrative headquarters of this district. As of 2011, it is the second most populous district of Jharkhand (out of 24), after Ranchi. It al ...
located near
Jharia Jharia is a neighbourhood in Dhanbad city in Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district in Jharkhand state, India. Jharia's economy is heavily dependent on the local coal fields, used to make coke. However, fires in the coal fields have made ...
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Bhagatdih Bhagatdih {also spelled Bhuggatdih) is a neighbourhood in Dhanbad in Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district in Jharkhand state, India. Geography Location Bhagatdih is located at . Note: The map alongside presents some of the notabl ...
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History

The school was established in 1866, by Raja Durga Prasad Singh, the
Zamindar A zamindar ( Hindustani: Devanagari: , ; Persian: , ) in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semiautonomous ruler of a province. The term itself came into use during the reign of Mughals and later the British had begun using it as a ...
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Jharia Raj Jharia Raj / Jharia Estate was a Zamindari estate in British India, located at Jharia in Bihar province of the Bengal Presidency. The present Jharia house is an offshoot of Palganj in Hazaribagh and was formerly established at Katrasgarh.Biha ...
and hence named Jharia Raj High School. The district gazetteer notes that during
Civil disobedience movement The Salt March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mahatma Gandhi. The twenty-four day march lasted from 12 March to 6 April 1930 as a di ...
in 1930-34 the attendance at Jharia Raj School dropped from 420 to 89. The school is a co-educational school, which has a large playground, library and computer learning facilities. The total number of students studying currently are 2024.


See also

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Education in India Education in India is primarily managed by state-run public education system, which fall under the command of the government at three levels: central, state and local. Under various articles of the Indian Constitution and the Right of Child ...
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