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345:, first President of India at that time, Maharaja Kameshwar Singh donated a building along with 60 acres (240,000 m2) of land and a garden of mango and litchi trees located beside the Bagmati river in Darbhanga to this institution. He in a major act of philanthropy, gifted in a ceremony on 30 March 1960, his
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Maharajadhiraja Kameshwar Singh (1907–1962) Kameshwar Singh (Maharaja of Darbhanga), Hetukar Jha, Mahārājādhirāja Kāmeśvara Siṃha Kalyāṇī Phāuṇḍeśana by Maharajadhiraj Kameshwar Singh Kalyani Foundation, 2007 –
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Bihar district gazetteers – Volume 11 – Page 230 Sugar Works, Lohat, which was given start in the year 1915 and its
Managing Agents were Octavius Steel Co., Ltd., Calcutta. ... The Darbhanga Sugar Company, Limited has got at present (1962) two sugar factories at Lohat and
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Kameshwar Singh, who inherited some of his father's legacy, further expanded his stake in varied industries. He controlled 14 businesses producing sugar, jute, cotton, coal, railway, iron and steel, aviation, print media, electricity and other products.
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Sugar industry in
Darbhanga Division – Page 32 The Darbhanga Sugar Company was set up with the finance provided by Maharajadhiraj Rameshwar Singh, Darbhanga Raj, M/s. Octavius Steel & Co., Calcutta and certain other English
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Socialist Movements in India – Page 58 O.P. Ralhan – 2002– The Maharaja of Darbhanga holds big interests in the British India Cooperation and Octavious Steel & Co., Villiers & Co., is fully under Indian
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Maharaniadhirani Kam
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He also was the President the Maithil Mahasabha from 1929–1962. and also President of the Sri Bharat Dharma Mahamandal.
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Radhakrishnan: His Life and Ideas By K. Satchidananda Murty, Ashok Vohra
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to start a Sanskrit University, now named after him as
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Maharani Adhirani Kameshwari Priya Sahiba of Mangrauni
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177:in 1935. He had started the
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