Sachchidananda Sinha (1871–1950) was a lawyer, journalist and educationist who became one of the principal architects of modern Bihar — and, in December 1946, the first (provisional) president of the Constituent Assembly of India that framed the Constitution. A champion of a separate Bihar province and of education, he co-founded institutions and newspapers that shaped public life.
Though from the wider Bihar, his career belongs to the same north-Bihar intellectual world as Mithila’s scholars and statesmen, and is honoured across the region.