Shahabad district

Shahabad district or Arrah district, headquartered at Arrah (now part of Bhojpur District) was a bhojpuri speaking district in western Bihar, India making western border of Bihar with Uttar Pradesh. In year 1972, the district was subsequently bifurcated into two districts ^[1] namely Bhojpur and Rohtas. Later on Kaimur District was carved out from Rohtas in 1991 and Buxar District from Bhojpur in 1992.

The districts in erstwhile Shahabad are as follows.

• Bhojpur District headquartered at Arrah
• Rohtas District headquartered at Sasaram
• Kaimur District headquartered at Bhabua
• Buxar District headquartered at Buxar

All four above districts falls under Patna Division along with Patna and Nalanda District.

Notable persons

• Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Seventh Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
• Chacha Ramgoolam, First Prime Minister & Chief Minister of Mauritius
• Navin Ramgoolam, 3 times Prime Minister of Mauritius
• Sher Shah Suri, Founder of Sur Dynasty who had built Grand Trunk Road.
• Ustad Bismillah Khan, shehnai maestro & recipient of Bharat Ratna.
• Babu Jagjivan Ram, 4th Deputy PM & longest serving union minister of India
• Meira Kumar, retd. Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer & 1st women Lok Sabha Speaker.
• Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha, 6th Chief Justice of India
• Bisheshwar Prasad Singh, former Chief Justice of Bombay High Court.
• Anil Sinha, Indian Police Service (IPS) officer & current Director of CBI.
• Bindeshwari Dubey, 21st Chief Minister of Bihar & former Union Minister of India.
• Anant Sharma, former Union Minister & Governor of Punjab & West Bengal state.
• Prashant Kishor, political strategist who led the NDA to win the 2014 Elections.
• Vinay Pathak, famous Bollywood actor
• Manoj Tiwari, Member of Parliament & one of the two Bhojpuri cinema superstar
• Vashishtha Narayan Singh, Indian mathematician & former NASA scientist.
• Veer Kunwar Singh, Indian freedom fighter who fought the British at the age of 80.
• Master jayparkash lal, indian freedom fighter known as "Sahabad Ke Gandhi"
• Babu Lokeshwar Singh hails from one of respected Zamindar family of the region & a freedom fighter .

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