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An Heir Splitting Legacy

15th Aug 1982, India Today, ReportageBy Chaitanya KalbagJuly 3, 2024Leave a comment

The story is as complicated as the whorls on a fingerprint, a ready-made screen-play bursting with grandeur, feudalism, pretension, and the tattered remnants of pomp and panoply. The theatre of this absurd epic, Raj Darbhanga in Bihar, has been reduced today to a threadbare relic of the fiefdom’s old glory. Darbhanga was once India’s largest…

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