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Bihar Sharif
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Sub-metropolitan city in Nalanda district, Patna division, Bihar, India
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- Locality
- Bihar Sharif
- Region
- Bihar
- Country
- India
- Population
- 297,268
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Bihar
- Division
- Patna
- District
- Nalanda
- Type
- Municipal Corporation
- Body
- Bihar Sharif Municipal Corporation
- Member of parliament
- Kaushalendra Kumar
- District magistrate
- Kundan Kumar, IAS
- Superintendent of police nalanda
- Bharat Soni, IPS
- Municipal commissioner
- Deepak Kumar Mishra, IAS
- Mayor
- Aneeta Devi
- City
- 152.94 km (59.05 sq mi)
- Urban
- 23.5 km (9.1 sq mi)
- Regional planning
- 78.53 km (30.32 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 55 m (180 ft)
- Density
- 15,743/km (40,770/sq mi)
- Official
- Hindi
- Additional official
- Urdu
via Wikipedia infobox
Travel guide
Understand
thumbnail|Badi Dargah, Bihar Sharif
See
Khanquah- Muslim religious place, and the native people of this place are known as Sayed, who belong to Makhdoom Sheikh Sharfuddin Aayeha Maneri Rahmatullah Alye from where people get Islamic knowledges...Nowadays that place is recognized by address Mohalla Khanquah.
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thumbnail|Litti chicken is made with wheat, lentils and chicken.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Encyclopedic overview
Bihar Sharif is the headquarters of Nalanda district and the fifth-largest sub-metropolitan area in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. Its name is a combination of two words: Bihar, derived from vihara (meaning monastery), also the name of the state; and Sharif (meaning noble). The city is a hub of education and trade in southern Bihar, and the economy centers around agriculture supplemented by tourism, the education sector and household manufacturing. The ruins of the ancient Nalanda Mahavihara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are located near the city.
Under the Pala Empire, Odantapuri, a major Buddhist monastic university was built at the site of Bihar Sharif. In the early 14th century, the city was captured by the Delhi Sultanate. Bihar Sharif was later ruled by other Muslim dynasties and then by the British until Indian independence in 1947. The city has important Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim heritage sites and landmarks.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bihar Sharif” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.