Dumraon
City
Bihari Ji temple
Map of Dumraon block
Country	India
State	Bihar
District	Buxar
Founded by	Raja Horil Singh
Elevation	61 m (200 ft)
Population  (2020)
• Total	200,000[1]
PIN	802119[2]
Area code	06323
Vehicle registration	BR-44

Dumraon (also spelled asDoomraon^[3]) is a town, nearBuxar city andnagar parishad correspondingcommunity development block inBuxar district in the Indian state ofBihar. Historically, it was the capital of theDumraon Raj.

Dumraon is located at25°33′N84°09′E / 25.55°N 84.15°E /25.55; 84.15^[4] at an average elevation of 61 metres (200 feet).

It was the capital of theDumraon Raj. Dumraon Raj was azamindari state during British era. The town was originally founded byRaja Horil Singh following the division of erstwhile territory of Bhojpur. It is also known as "Horilnagar". During the time of Indian independence, Dumraon Raj covered an area of 2,330 km² which stretched fromBuxar district in westBihar toBallia district in thePurvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh. In Ballia district, Dumraon Raj covered rights of more than 70 villages which are located on the banks of theGanga river.^[5][6] The nephews ofRaja Horil Singh, Babu Buddh Singh and Raja Udwant Singh ruled the principalities at Buxar and Jagdishpur.^[7]

Dumraon was formally constituted as a municipality in 1877; during the late 1800s, the town was a producer and exporter ofsugar.^[8]

The famousBismillah Khan was born in Dumraon. His father was a court musician employed in the court of the Maharaja of Dumraon.^[9]

As of 2011^[update]Indiacensus,^[10] Dumraon had a population of 53,618 as per census of 2011 Out of which 28,498 are males while 25,120 are females. The Average Sex Ratio of Dumraon is 881. Males constitute 53% of the population. Dumraon has an average literacy rate of 71.6% lower than the national average by 2.64%: male literacy is 66.6% and, female literacy is 53.4% . In Dumraon, 16% of the population is under 6 years of age. Religion-wise population of Dumraon is as follows: there are 83.85% Hindu, 15.94 Muslim, 0.11% Christian, 0.01% Buddhist and 0.07% non-religion.

Ustad Bismillah Khan (21 March 1916 – 21 August 2006) (born as Qamaruddin Khan), often referred to by the honorific title Ustad, was an Indian musician credited with popularizing the shehnai, a subcontinental wind instrument of the oboe class. Khan was born on 21 March 1916 in a family of traditional Muslim musicians in Bhirung Raut Ki Gali, Dumraon, in what is now the eastern Indian state of Bihar, as the second son of Paigambar Baksh Khan and Mitthan. He was awarded India's highest civilian honour, theBharat Ratna, in 2001, becoming the third classical musician after M. S. Subbulakshmi and Ravi Shankar to be accorded this distinction.

The Former Princely State also finds mention and is the setting for the second half of the popular novelHalf Girlfriend byChetan Bhagat where the protagonist Madhav Jha played by Arjun Kapoor is the Prince of the former Princely state Dumraon.^[11][12]

Dumraon Railway Station is located in betweenAra andBuxar Railway Station on theHowrah–Delhi main line viaPatna–Mughalsarai section main line. The Railway code for Dumraon is DURE.^[13]

Besides the city of Dumraon itself, there are 93 villages in Dumraon block. Of these, 73 are inhabited and 20 are uninhabited. As of 2011, the total population of these villages was 179,064, in 28,898 households.^[1]

• Cities and towns in Buxar district

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