Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the first President of Republic of India, was born on December 3, 1884 in a remote village of Saran district in North Bihar.

Rajan Babu, as he was affectionately called, had a brilliant academic career. Standing first in High school, he passed the entrance examination of the Calcutta University, in 1902, topping first in the first division. He joined the Presidency Law College, Calcutta and graduated from it again scoring a first class first in the University of Calcutta, the jurisdiction of which those days extended from the eastern most frontier of British India to Peshwar in the North West.