Modern History of Araria
Posted by Sulabh on March 16, 2008
During the British period, the area where one Mr. Forbes’s Bunglow was located was called “Residential Area”, which people called as R. Area. Over a period of time, R. Area acquired the pronunciation Arariya. Renu ji (Phanishwar Nath ‘Renu’, legendary novelist and story writer, belonged to Araria.
By Sulabh Jaiswal
Shashi BhanuRoy said
I makes sense. I was wondering where did the name Araria come from. It certainly does not have a local lingustic ring to it.