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Biography
Choudhary Kedarnath Thakur (1 June 1901 – 3 March 1952) was the Zamindar of Singhwara Estate situated in the Darbhanga district of Mithila in Bihar. He belonged to a Zamindari family of Mithila (region).
Family history
Choudhary Kedarnath Thakur was a scion of the Singhwara Estate family. He was the son of Choudhary Munindra Narayan Thakur, the Zamindar of Singhwara Estate. Kedarnath was born on 1 June 1901 in a Maithil Brahmin family.
Books
He was a regular reader of magazines or books published in Hindi, Maithili, Bangla, and Sanskrit. Hori Pachisi is a collection of 25 Holi-related songs in Maithili written by Thakur. During his life Thakur also produced a number of books including a novel Saundaryooashnaka Puraskar and the play Dahej, and he translated a number of Bengali and Persian stories into Maithili, including Gramkatha (from Bengali to Maithili) and Nongar Sneha (from Persian to Maithili) between 1930 and 1940.
Death
In 1952, Thakur fell ill and died at his home.