Origin of Name
Daltonganj is named after Colonel Edward Tuite Dalton (1815–1880),an anthropologist and the District commissioner of Chota Nagpur in 1861, during the British Raj who established this town after clearing Bijra Bagan. Now the name of Daltonganj is changed to Medininagar named after the name of king Medani Rai.
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