Jamdaha is a small idyllic and peaceful village, which lies in harmonious rural landscape with agricultural lands and greens, at the banks of the river Chandan, in the state of Bihar, in India. The village is far away from the noisy and polluted scenes of urban India. Jamdaha is completely embedded in natural and unpolluted environment, with fresh drinking water, nutritious and fertile soil. There are no immediate industrial areas, nor any factories nearby the region.

The village lies in the district of Banka, in southeastern Bihar, bordering the state of Jharkhand to the south and West Bengal to the east, and has approximately 1000 inhabitants. Most of the inhabitants earn their livelihoods from agriculture and land labour. The infrastructure in Jamdaha is less developed, there is, for instance, no road to the village, and no electricity.

Bihar lies in northeastern India, bordering Nepal to the north and the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh to the east, West Bengal to the west and Jharkhand to the south. Bihar is a periphery state in two ways: Firstly, about 85% of the population live in villages. Secondly, the state is far behind other Indian states in human and economic development. Bihar, for instance, has the lowest literacy rate in India of only about 33% of women and men 60%.