Bettiah Raj

[2] A branch of this clan also set up residence at a place called Jaithar Saran near Champaran,[3] and later moved east and established a state at Bettiah in Bihar.

[citation needed] In 1765, when the East India Company acquired the Diwani, Bettiah Raj held the largest territory under its jurisdiction.

Bettiah Raj also came into being as a result of mallikana chaudharai and quanungoi, the connection with the revenue administration building on local dominance, and their ability to control and protect hundreds of villages.

[4] During the Bettiah Raj of Bihar, the ethnoreligious community of Bettiah Christians, largely descended from upper-caste and middle-caste Hindu and Muslim converts to Christianity, was established in India by missionaries belonging to the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, a Roman Catholic religious order.

[9] The Bettiah Christian Mission flourished under the blessing of Pope Benedict XIV and the patronage of the royal court of the Rajas, growing in number.

In 1884, he received the title of Maharaja Bahadur as a personal distinction and a Khilat and a sanad from the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal, Sir Augustus Rivers Thompson.