Champaran is a region of Bihar in India.[1] It is now divided into an East Champaran district and a West Champaran district.

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Champaran
Region
Champaran Location in Bihar, India Show map of India Champaran Champaran (Bihar) Show map of Bihar
Coordinates: 26.8437°N 84.6826°E / 26.8437; 84.6826
Country	India
State	Bihar
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)

Notable people

• Manoj Bajpai – Indian film actor
• Dinesh Bhramar – poet and noted figure in Hindi and Bhojpuri literature
• Anuranjan Jha – Indian journalist
• Prakash Jha – Indian filmmaker
• Ramesh Chandra Jha – Indian poet, novelist and freedom fighter
• Abdullah Khan – novelist and screenwriter
• Ravish Kumar – Indian journalist
• Gopal Singh Nepali – Indian poet of Hindi literature, Bollywood lyricist
• George Orwell – English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic
• Kedar Pandey – Congress leader and ex-Chief Minister of Bihar
• Afroz Alam Sahil – Indian journalist
• Raj Kumar Shukla – indigo cultivator, activist
• Radha Mohan Singh – Indian politician

References

Further reading

• "Champaran Gramodyog Sansthan".
• Singh, Shankar Dayal. Gandhi's first step: Champaran movement, by B.R. Pub. Corp., 1994. ISBN 81-7018-834-2.
• Chakrabarti D.K. (1996b). From Purnea to Champaran: The distribution of sites in the north Bihar plains. South Asian Studies, 12:pp. 147–158