Historical Sights and Heritage

Colonial Era Heritage

Bihar played an important role in India’s freedom struggle.

Champaran (West Champaran)

• Champaran Satyagraha (1917): Mahatma Gandhi’s first civil disobedience movement in India against forced indigo cultivation.
• Heritage Sites: Gandhi Ashram, Motihari.

Bhagalpur

• Historic silk-producing city since Mughal times, continued under British rule.