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Jehanabad district was carved out of old Gaya district on August 1, 1986. Earlier, it had been
a subdivision of the Gaya district since 1872. The main objective behind the creation of this
district was to accelerate the pace of development to tackle the problem of extremism,
poverty, unemployment and under-development.
The city of Jehanabad, which is the district HQ is situated on the confluence of the rivers
Dardha and Jamune. The total land of the district is plain. It is crisscrossed by a number of river
and rivulets, all seasonal, such as Galgu, Morhar, Dardha, lamune, Baldeyia and Ganghar.
legends, Hindu as well as Buddhist, take down the history of jehanabad to a period of
hoary antiquity. The earliest of the archeological remains in the district are to be found in the
Barabar and Nagarjuni hills. The description of jlehanabad is also found in the famous book
'Aain-e-Akbari'. |
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