Samastipur District
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Samastipur district समस्तीपुर जिलाضلع سمستی پور |
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| District of Bihar | |
 Location of Samastipur district in Bihar |
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| Country | India |
| State | Bihar |
| Administrative division | Darbhanga |
| Headquarters | Samastipur |
| Government | |
| • Lok Sabha constituencies | Samastipur, Ujiarpur |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2,904 km2 (1,121 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 4,254,782 |
| • Density | 1,500/km2 (3,800/sq mi) |
| Demographics | |
| • Literacy | 63.81 per cent |
| • Sex ratio | 909 |
| Major highways | NH28, NH 103 |
| Website | Official website |
Samastipur is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar in India. The district headquarters are located at Samastipur. The district occupies an area of 2904 km² and has a population of 27,16,929 (as of 2001 Census).
As per district Gazetteers, Darbhanga, pages 33 to 34 Darbhanga under the Oinwar dynasty (1325-1525 AD), After a temporary period of instability, Darbhanga came under the control of the Oinwaras, also known as the Kameshwara Thakur or Sugauna Dynasty. These Hindu Chiefs were left undisturbed by the Muslim conquerors, who has by now conquered the whole of Mithila and whose exploits are indicated. The Oinwara Dynasty is noted for their encouragement of leaning and fine arts and their court served as the centre of Sanskrit belle's letters and philosophy. Among the prominent scholars of age were Gadadhara, Sankara, Vachaspati Mishra, Vidyapati, Amartakara and Amiykara. Kameshwara, the founder of dynasty, was resident of village Oini, near Pusa Road, in the District of Darbhanga. When Hazi Ilyas of Bengal divided Torhut into two parts, the Oinwara Raja shifted his Capital to Sugauna near Madhubani. The southern part of the district was under Hazi Ilyas and the northern part under the Oinwaras. The modern subdivision of Samastipur (originally Shamsuddinpur) was founded by Hazi Shamsuddin Ilyas of West Bengal.
Samastipur became a district in 1972 when it was split from Darbhanga district.
Samastipur district occupies an area of 2,904 square kilometres (1,121 sq mi), comparatively equivalent to Indonesia's Muna Island. Samastipur is bounded on the north by the Bagmati River which separates it from Darbhanga district. On the west it is bordered by Vaishali and some part of Muzaffarpur district, on the south by the Ganges, while on its east it has Begusarai and some part of Khagaria district. The district headquarters is located at Samastipur.
Samastipur is traversed by a number of rivers including Budhi Gandak, Baya, Kosi, Kamla, Kareh and Jhamwari and Balan, which are both the offshoots of Burhi Gandak. The Ganges also skirts the district on the south.
Samastipur district comprises the following Sub-Divisions:
Samastipur sub-division comprises eight blocks: Samastipur, Tajpur, Morwa, Khanpur, Sarairanjan, Pusa, Warisnagar, Kalyanpur.
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