Bettiah
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Bettiah is the headquarters of West Champaran district in the state of Bihar, in India. Birthplace of famous writer Gopal Singh Nepali Mahatama Gandhi started the Satyagraha movement from Bettiah in 1919. The region surrounding Bettiah was being extensively used for Indigo plantation. Though Indigo cultivation yielded quick benefits to the British Colonizers, a few years of Indigo cultivation would render the subsoil entirely devoid of nutients thereby effectively ruining any further cultivation of any kind . In fact to this date, the adjoining regions which were being used for Indigo cultivation are barren & have only scrub vegetation in stark contrast to the lush greens typical of the highly fertile Indo-Gangetic Plains in which the West Champaran district lies.
