The Annual Congress Session of 1922 under the presidency of "Deshbandhu" Chittaranjan Das was going to be held here due to its importance in the Indian National Movement but it was later held in the neighbouring city of Gaya. Swami Sahajanand Saraswati used to live in the Ashram in the west of the village. Pandit Yadunandan Sharma, the great peasant leader of the Kisan Andolan spent most of his life in the Ashram. Although many people are falsely registered in the village as "Swatantrata Senanis" (independence fighters), only three people (alive during the registration) are believed to have gone to jail (the criterion for benefits under the freedom fighter pension and benefits scheme). The last of these three- Ram Dahin Singh, died in 2010.