What is "masaurhi"

Masaurhi is a city and a Nagar Parishad in Patna district in the Indian state of Bihar. Few will know that it was Yadav farmers who in 1927, talked to Swami Sahajanand Saraswati to aid them in their struggles against the Bhumihar Brahmin zamindars of Masaurhi, and that it was from that beginning that the most powerful movement in India, the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha, emerged.

Masaurhi Vidhan Sabha constituency is one of 243 legislative assembly of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is comes under Pataliputra (Lok Sabha constituency) along with other assembly constituencies viz Danapur, Maner, Phulwari, Paliganj and Bikram. It is reserved for scheduled castes.