Bihari Lal Fitrat
Bihari Lal Fitrat was an Indian historian who focused on the history of Mithila. His major work was the Aina-i-Tirhut which was written in Urdu and published in 1883. The book was considered the first serious attempt at cataloguing the history of Mithila.[1]
Bihari Lal Fitrat was born in 1829 into an elite family in Darbhanga. He qualified as a lawyer in 1856 and was made an honorary magistrate in 1877. He later worked in the court of Raj Darbhanga. He was versed in Maithili, Hindi, Urdu, Persian and Arabic.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Mithilesh Kumar Jha (21 November 2017). Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India: Making of the Maithili Movement. OUP India. pp. 69–70. ISBN 978-0-19-909172-0.
- ^ Aditi Chandra; Vinita Chandra (13 December 2019). The Nation and its Margins: Rethinking Community. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 36–38. ISBN 978-1-5275-4457-4.
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