The Bettiah Raj was a chieftaincy in the Mughal province of Bihar. The area of the Bettiah Raj was about 2000 sq. miles and it generated an annual land revenue of more than 2 million rupees.
Bettiah is a city and the administrative headquarters of West Champaran district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is near the Indo-Nepal border, 225 kilometres northwest of Patna.
Bettiah Raj
…Bettiah till 1763. During the reign of Emperor Aurangzeb the hostilities between Bettiah and Darbhanga restarted when Raja Gaj Singh built a fort in Bettiah which Mahinath Thakur considered to be an act of war. Darbhanga laid siege to Bettiah and the fort was eventually captured. Disputes between the two…
Anticlockwise from top left -Bettiah Raj mahal Saheed Park, Sagar pokhra and Shiv Mandir, Supriya Cinema road, Bettiah auditorium and Maharaja Stadium, Gandhi statue at Hariwatika Chowk, Aeria view of Station chowk.