| Introduction | Places of Interest | How to Reach |
| Motihari is a town steeped in history.When the British caved out the district of Champaran from Saran in the later part of the 19th century.Motihari was made its head quarters.After the creation of West Champaran district with Bettiah as its head quarters in 1972,Motihari continued as the head quarters of truncated East Champaran. |
| Motihari holds its eminence as the birth place of famous writer George Orwell,born Eric Arthur Blair,and of Mahatma Gandhi's Champaran Satyagraha. |
| Places in and around Motihari have had an older link:Buddhism.The world's tallest stupa is at Kesaria,just an hour from Motihari.Motihari,thus,is a crucible of both the Gandhi and Buddhist circuits. |
| A museum and a stone pillar are there to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi's links with Motihari.Gandhiji's courageous statment given before a magistrate is inscribed here on a stone.The 48-ft tall Chunar stone pillar stands exactly on the place where Gandhi was prouced before the court of the sub-divisional magistrate on April 18,1917 for violating prohibitory orders. |
| Mahatma Gandhi's first Satyagraha was experimented on the soil of Motihari in the Champaran district and,thus,Champaran has been the starting point of India's independence movement launched by Gandhi. |
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