MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY,--
1.On this a rare, memorable occasion when His Most Gracious Majesty's greatest gift to this Ancient and Great Country--- a New Age of rights and privileges---is being introduced through Royal Representatives of His Majesty bringing a message of hope.peace and good-will to this country, may I invite Your Excellency and through Your Excellency the Imperial Government to give kind attention to a question which though primarily a personal question is yet a question is its general aspect intimately connected with the scheme of self government for this country of ancient histories and tradition?
2.To begin the question, I am deeply grateful to Government for the honours and distinctions which have been conferred upon me from time to time ;but there yet remains that question of great importance to me and to my House--- the question of restoration of the ruling powers enjoyed by my forefathers before the East India Company took possession of North Bihar, which I beg leave to submit hereby for consideration
3..Representatives of public opinion both here and in England have pointed out the advantages, desirability, and claims of certain class of ancient families and tracts to be erected into Ruling Houses and Principalities. That desirability seems to have received recognition also from such high authority as the Right Hon'ble Mr. Montagu, who on the 10th of July,1917, speaking before the House of Commons about the would-be.constitutional India described it as "the great self-governing dominions and provinces of India organised and co-ordinated with great principalities-- the existing principalities, and perhaps new ones.-- not one great Home Rule Country but a series of self - governing provinces and principalities federated by one Central Government."
4.There are tracts in this country which by reason of history, associations, traditions,language and similar factors are marked out as distinct political individualities. It is submitted that it is those tracts to which the Reform should be extended in the first instance in the way of erecting "New Principalities." In other words, where tracts had been organisms-- "principalities"-- in the near past, where life is still traceable in traditions and institutions, the scheme of self-government in this aspect be applied to them and the tracts be revived in full life, into full political persona.
5. I beg to submit that the necessary conditions,enviornments and qualifications are to be found in the part of Tirhut which has been known as Mithila since Vedic times-- since the facts related in the Epics (the Ramayana and Mahabharata ). It lies mainly in the districts of Darbhanga and Muzaffarpur extending north right up to the foot of the Himalayas. It stands out in Northern Bihar by its history, language (Maithili)and literature as a national unit , a separate entity. It has been the seat of a Hindu kingdom since earliest times. Mostly the kingdom of Mithila was territorially identical with Tirhut; at times that kingdom included the whole of Northern Bihar and beyond. Under my own ancestors the whole of Sirkar Tirhut, greater portion of the district of Purnea,a portion of north Bhagalpur and also a small portion of Champaran, had come within its limits. For centuries even before the rise of my House, the rulers of Mithila had been Brahmins. Its literature flourished under them and continued under my House; it is distinctly national. So is the very language and script in which that language is written.. No other unit in India continued the Hindu tradition unbroken in Muhammadan times up to the advent of the British Power. Mithila alone can claim to have been the intact home of orthodox Hindu civilisation, where even scribes wrote documents in Sanskrit up to the 18th century, where Hindu Law was administered by Hindu Lawers until the Dewany, where Hindu philosphies and sciences are studied in every village even to-day.
6. Sirkar Tirhut then comprised 84 Parganas covering the greater parts of the districts of Darbhanga and Muzaffarpur. The boundries of the Sirkar in the grant of Mm Mahesh Thakur are said to have been "At Ganga to Sang-- As kosa to Ghosa,"that is, from the Ganges in the south to the mountain in the north-- from the river Kosi in the east to the Gandak in the west. This couplet laying down the boundries is printed in the Survey Settlement Report of the Purnia district. By subsequent grants to my ancestors by the Moghul Emperors about half of Purnia and a portion of Bhagalpur was added to their territories.
7. Mithila, if not the whole of Tirhut, has thus the strongest claims to be raised again into its former political persona-- an Indian State..
दरभंगा को समझने के लिए समय , स्थान और सन्दर्भ को जानना जरुरी है।शादी समारोह की चर्चा तो हमने खूब सुनी है आज मैं दरभंगा में हुए एक यज्ञोपवीत का चर्चा करेंगे। ६ फ़रवरी से ९ फरवरी १९४१ को दरभंगा में हुए इस यज्ञोपवीत में जयपुर , जोधपुर , बनारस ,ग्वालियर,धौलपुर , कश्मीर ,टेकारी ,त्रिपुरा ,कूचबिहार ,मयूरभंज ,डुमराऊँ ,बर्दवान ,नेपाल , कसिमबाज़ार ,रामगढ ,छोटानागपुर ,मुंगेर, शिवहर , कपूरथला ,हैदराबाद,पयागपुर ,ओइल ,पंसबकोटे,पटियाला आदि के राजा - महाराजा तथा उनके प्रतिनिधि ,डा राजेंद्र प्रसाद,सर्वपल्ली राधाकृष्णन ,नवाब सर के जी ऍम फारूकी , माननीय राजयपाल बिहार ,माननीय हूसैन इमाम ,रायबहादुर राधाकृष्ण जालान ,पंडित दौर्गादत्ती शास्त्री ,गोस्वामी गणेशदत्तजी ,महामहोपाध्याय पंडित हरिहर कृपालु ,के पी सिन्हा ,I.C.S ,रायबहादुर एस एन सहाय ,M.L.A ,रायबहादुर श्रीनारायण मेहता , रायबहादुर लाला रामसरन दास ,एन सेनापरी ,I.C. S ,एस.एम. धर ,I.C.S ,सी.पी.एन सिन्हा ,M.L.A , महामहोपाध्याय डा. सर गंगानाथ झा ,डा.अमरनाथ झा, जैसे देश के गणमान्य लोगों ने शिरकत की। इस समारोह में किया सब कार्यक्रम हुआ यह थोड़ी देर में। पहले बता दूँ कि उन्हें दरभंगा में कहाँ ठहराया गया था। आनन्दबाग बाग और रामबाग पैलेस को छोड़कर नरगौना पैलेस ,बेला पैलेस ,राज गेस्ट हाउस (वर्तमान में महात्मा गांधी अतिथिशाला ),विश्राम कुटीर ( इनकम टैक्स ऑफिस ),लालबाग़ गेस्ट हाउस ,हराही हाउस ,बंगला नंबर ६ डेनबी रोड और गिरीन्द्र मोहन रोड स्थित बंगलों और रेलवे सैलून,कैंप मानसरोवर ,राज मैदान , विशेश्वर मैदान में अतिथियों का ठहरने का इंतजाम था. अतिथियों को लाने- ले- जाने के लिए बग्घी , सजे हुए हाथी का रथ तथा कार मौजीद थे , इन सभी ठहरने के जगहों पर चाय- नाश्ता और खाने का बंदोबस्त था।अतिथियों की आगवानी महाराजा कामेश्वर सिंह और राजा बहादुर विशेस्वर सिंह पाग के साथ मिथिला के परिधान में हवाई अड्डा ,रेलवे स्टेशन पर स्वयं कर रहे थे। रामबाग में ८. ३० बजे पूर्वाह्न से २. ३० बजे अपराह्न में वैदिक समारोह ,३ बजे से टेनिस ,स्क्वाश ,स्पोर्ट्स,कुश्ती ,पोलो ,फुटबॉल,शाम में आतिशबाजी , बैंक्वेट ,संस्कृत ड्रामा ,हिंदी फिल्म' स्ट्रीट सिंगर' ,ख्याति प्राप्त नर्तक उदयशंकर का भारतीय शास्त्रीय नृत्य ,कैब्रेट ,पंडितों को राधाकृष्णन का सम्बोधन और धोती भेंट कर सम्मानित किया जाना ,उस्ताद बिस्मिल्लाह खान का शहनाई वादन ,शास्त्रीय संगीत तथा आनन्दबाग में गार्डेन पार्टी का आयोजन चारों दिन था।रौशनी से जगमगता सड़क ऐसा कि सुई भी गिरे रात में तो मिल जाय. रामबाग के आंगन के जिस मंडप पर वैदिक कार्यक्रम था उसी के बगल में सामानांतर पक्का चबूतरा राजा - महाराजा के बैठने के लिए था। दरभंगा देश - विदेश के अतिथियों से अट्टापट्टा था कोई दरभंगा की खूबसूरती और वैभव देख कर मंत्रमुग्ध था तो कोई इस शहर के भाग्य से ईष्या कर रहा था परन्तु कुछ गरीबों के लिए सोच रहे थे।
इसी कालखण्ड में ७ फ़रवरी को १२. १० बजे कामेश्वरी प्रिया पुअर होम का उद्घाटन महामहिम राज्यपाल,बिहार द्वारा दरभंगा में हुआ।
