Hazarimal Dharamshala, Bettiah, West Champaran

Hazarimal Dharamshala, Bettiah, West Champaran

Hazarimal Dharamshala (built in 1892) in Bettiah, was used by Mahatma Gandhi to launch his first Satyagraha movement in India after coming from South Africa. A number of important personalities, viz. Acharya J.B. Kripalani, Babu Rajendra Prasad, Sarojini Naidu, Braj Kishore Prasad made this place a common ground of struggle for the Freedom Movement.