Lataraha
Lataraha is a small village in Jalley Block in Darbhanga District of Bihar State, India. It belongs to Darbhanga Division. It is 35 Km North-West from Darbhanga District Head Quarter and 122 Km from state capital Patna. Nearest satellite town is Jalley (3 Km) and nearest popular market is Pupri (12Km) in Sitamadhi district.
Maithili is the local language. Besides Hindi, Urdu are also spoken. In fact as this village is mostly populated by so called lower castes like soori (baniya caste and owns maximum land and hence maximum wealth), carpenter (numerically dominant), mallah, kumhar, chamar and some other lower castes in a few number. There was only one Brahmin family twenty years back. Language is deviant of Maithili and popularly called thethi bhasha. Maithili is considered language of sophisticated class while Thethi is language of common people.
It is connected with Darbhanga district by road. Nearest railway station is Jogiyara (5Km).
It comes under Jalley Assembly Constituency and Madhubani Parliamentary constituency.
Lataraha is surrounded by Bokhra Block towards west, Nanpur Block towards west, Puri Block towards North, Bisfi Block towards East. Darbhanga, Sitamarhi, Madhubani, Sheohar are the nearby cities to Latraha.
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