Gaya district, with Gaya city as its administrative headquarters, is one of the thirty-eight districts of the state of Bihar in India. Currently a part of the Red Corridor, it was officially established on 3rd October 1865. It shares a common boundary Jharkhand state in the south. 

Gaya History

In the 12th century, Gaya was invaded by Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khilji. Later he was defeated by the Hindu rulers. It came under the control of Britishers after the battle of Buxar in 1764. It got freed from them in 1947 with the rest of the country. Gaya was a part of the district of Behar and Ramgarh till 1864. It gained the status of an independent district in 1865. Magadh Division was created by the State Government of with the districts of Gaya, Nawada, Aurangabad and Jehanabad on May 1981. All these districts were sub-divisions when the Gaya district was created in 1865. Aurangabad and Nawada districts were carved out from in 1976 and Jehanabad district in 1988.