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Mohanpur, Darbhanga

village in Darbhanga district, Bihar, India

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ6893676 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sara Mohanpur (Sara Mohammad) is a village in Darbhanga District of Bihar, located 4 km from the Darbhanga Railway Station and 9 km from the Darbhanga Airport. It is directly connected with the main city. Peoples are very sincere about their village maintenance; they always participate in panchayat elections to work for the growth of village.

Sara Mohanpur is also famous for the palatial Mohanpur House and the garden/orchard surrounding it. Mohanpur House belonged to the (Late) Mukund Jha, who donated it in 1972 to the Government of Bihar for establishing an Ayurvedic College.

Initially, the Mohanpur House served as the head office of the L N Mithila University from 1972 to 1975. Thereafter Maharani "Rameshwari Bhartiya Chikitsa Vigyan Sansthan" was established and functions at this house. It was named after the wife of Maharaja Rameshwar Singh, the penultimate Maharaja of Darbhanga.

This institute is affiliated with Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University and offers the BAMS degree.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Mohanpur, Darbhanga” as village in Darbhanga district, Bihar, India. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mohanpur, Darbhanga and village.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 1975—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mohanpur, Darbhanga and village providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Mohanpur, Darbhanga”, the useful work is to connect “village in Darbhanga district, Bihar, India” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6893676. Authority coordinates are 26.173, 85.931. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1972 and 1975.

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Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mohanpur, Darbhanga” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.