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  Bihar Times: A Passage to Bihar
Patna, (Bihar Times): The government offer of rasing the retirement age of the doctors failed to cut much ice as the Bihar State Health Services Association is firm on its decision to go on indefinite strike from December 5 next...
Govt issues directive against illegal transport of cattle Patna, (Bihar Times): The state government on Sunday directed the civil and police administration of Saran division to ensure that stipulations under the Bihar Cattle Protection and Development Act, 1955 and its amendment in 1982 were strictly implemented...
Patna, (Bihar Times): A division bench of Mr Justice Ghanshyam Prasad and Mr Justice Shyam Kishore Sharma on Friday rejected the bail plea of former MP, Anand Mohan, former minister, Akhlaque Ahmad and Arun Kumar Sinha in the G Krishnaiya murder case of December 1994.
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  Bihar Travel,Bihar India, Bihar,Travel Guide To Bihar,Tourism in Bihar,Tours To Bihar,India Bihar Travel Guide,Travel ...
Bihar is bound on the north by Nepal, on the east by West Bengal, on the west by Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, and Orissa in the south.
But Bihar's most famous and fascinating indigenous art form is its Madhubani school of painting, a strict monopoly of the women of Mithila.
The principal foodgrains of Bihar are paddy, wheat, maize and pulses.
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  Bihar Summary
Bihar saw a brief period of glory for six years during the rule of Sher Shah Suri, who was from Sasaram and built the longest road of the Indian subcontinent, the Grand Trunk Road, which starts from Calcutta and ends at Peshawar in Pakistan.
Bihar is among the least developed states of India and has a per capita income of $94 a year against India's average of $255.
Bihar has a very old tradition of beautiful folk songs, sung during important family occasions, such as marriage, birth ceremonies, festivals, etc. They are sung mainly in group settings without the help of many musical instruments, though Dholak, and occasionally Tabla and Harmonium are used.
www.bookrags.com /Bihar   (3655 words)

  
  Bihar - india   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bihar is the place that gave birth to Buddhism and Jainism and helped in the growth of Sikhism and Hinduism, has a past that is unmatched anywhere in the world.
Bihar is located in the eastern region of India, bordering Nepal in the North, West Bengal in the east, Uttar Pradesh in the West, and Jharkhand in the South.
Nitish Kumar is the Chief Minister of the Bihar.
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  Bihar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
To Bihar's north is the Kingdom of Nepal.
Bihar saw a brief period of glory for six years during the rule of Sher Shah Suri, who was from Sasaram and built the longest road of the Indian subcontinent, the Grand Trunk Road, which starts from Calcutta and ends at Peshawar in Pakistan.
Bihar is among the least developed states of India and has a per capita income of $94 a year against India's average of $255.
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 AllRefer.com - Bihar, India (Indian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Bihar is governed by a chief minister and a cabinet responsible to a bicameral legislature with one elected house and by a governor appointed by the president of India.
Bihar was part of the ancient kingdom of Magadha, and contains many sites associated with the Buddha's early life, including Bodh Gaya, the site of his enlightenment.
The province of Bihar and Orissa was formed in 1912; Bihar became a separate province in 1936.
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 Music of Bihar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The classical form of the Indian music is already quite well known and the classical music in Bihar is but a form of the Hindustani Classical Music.
Bihar is among the few Indian states which has a rich subaltern culture.
The region's folk songs are associated with the various events in the life of an ordinary person.
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 Prospects of Radical Change in Bihar
It is no secret that most of Bihar's governing elite were deep in collusion with the semi-feudal landed interests and had deliberately conspired to thwart the peasantry from acquiring their minimum share of the land and its produce.
Twenty-five years of pregnant silence in the Bihar countryside was broken in 1968 with a clarion call by Marxists-Leninists (M-L) for a militant peasant struggle, a struggle that continues to stir the hearts and minds of millions of Bihar's rural and urban poor.
64% of Bihar's population is composed of the "backward" and "scheduled" castes, the majority of whom have nursed a justifiable historical grievance against the upper caste (13%) dominated economic, cultural and political structures.
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 What Ails Bihar? - HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bihar's industrial growth throughout the planning era has been less than half the national average.
Bihar records one of the highest crime rates in the country, although not the highest, as many insist.
Bihar needs to accord top priority to primary education to get rid of the "most illiterate state" tag.
www.hindustantimes.com /news/7273_0,00160077.htm   (351 words)

  
 Land of Buddha & Lalu Prasad - Sify.com
Bihar has also contributed perhaps the largest number of India's freedom fighters, many of whom are still drawing their pensions from the Central government.
Today's Bihar is dominated by leaders who were once the chief actors in the JP movement - Lalu Prasad Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Sushil Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Ram Jatan Sinha of the Congress, Nitish Kumar of the Janata Dal (United).
Politics in, and of, Bihar is at a crossroads.
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 Columns: Kautilya
In the central Bihar districts of Patna, Nalanda, Gaya, Jehanabad, Aurangabad, Nawadah and Bhojpur, most affected by violence unleashed by Naxalites and the caste senas, the proportion is higher, at around 20 per cent.
Bihar's overall literacy rate in 1991 was 38.5 per cent, whereas Jehanabad's was 46.4 per cent and Nalanda's 47 per cent.
The Bihar Government claims to have acquired 3.85 lakh acres of surplus land, while scholars like Indu Bharati have estimated that the land that is surplus is actually 18 lakh acres.
www.lib.virginia.edu /area-studies/SouthAsia/bihar/jairam.html   (831 words)

  
 Bihar: India Tourism - Incredible India   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cutting straight across Bihar from west to east, the bounteous Ganga had made the region so fertile and plentiful that its natural prosperity nurtured to veritable fountainhead of political and cultural civilizations down the millennia.
Bihar has its usual assortment of rural handicrafts of hand painted wall hangings, wooden stools, miniatures in paper and leaves, stone pottery, bamboo and leather goods and appliqué work.
Bihar being a holy land for the Jains as well, two major Jain festivals are celebrated here - Mahavir Jayanti at Parasnath Hill in April and Deo Deewali, which commemorates the final liberation of Lord Mahavira.
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 Pictures, Photos of Bihar, India
Bihar, in the eastern part of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, is amply watered by the Ganga and its tributaries, and there is no denying that the landscape here—particularly now, in the early monsoons—is among the most lovely in the country.
Bihar also has an illustrious history as the onetime center of the subcontinent's culture and politics.
And for all the poverty, there is not a correspondingly higher number of beggars in Bihar, perhaps because the poverty is too even and there are no tourists (Buddhist pilgrims tend to remain cloistered in their tour packages).
www.shunya.net /Pictures/NorthIndia/Bihar.htm   (620 words)

  
 Bihar - SikhiWiki, free Sikh encyclopedia.
Bihar is located in the eastern part of India (between 83°-30' to 88°-00' longitude).
Bihar lies mid-way between the humid West Bengal in the east and the sub humid Uttar Pradesh in the west which provides it with a transitional position in respect of climate, economy and culture.
The Bihar plain is divided into two unequal halves by the river Ganga which flows through the middle from west to east.
www.sikhiwiki.org /index.php?title=Bihar_(India)   (226 words)

  
 Bihar, Information about Bihar, Bihar Tourism
Bihar is more known as the home of Mahavir and Buddha, where they spent the major part of their life.
Bihar was settled from the west as Aryan tribes moved down the Ganga valley, clearing the forest and developing cultivation.
Bihar is a region of transition from the wet lowlands of Bengal to the prosperous plains of west Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab.
www.indovacations.net /english/AboutBihar.htm   (1398 words)

  
 Columbia Encyclopedia- Bihar - AOL Research & Learn
Bihar is governed by a chief minister and a cabinet responsible to a bicameral legislature with one elected house and by a governor appointed by the president of India.
Bihar was part of the ancient kingdom of Magadha, and contains many sites associated with the Buddha's early life, including Bodh Gaya, the site of his enlightenment.
The province of Bihar and Orissa was formed in 1912; Bihar became a separate province in 1936.
reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/bihar/20051205194809990024   (306 words)

  
 East : Bihar : HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bihar Chief Secy rubbished the charges that procedures were violated in the purchase of a King Air C90B aircraft.
A team of Bihar Police arrived in Delhi to arrest controversial RJD MP S Yadav in connection with an assault case.
Bihar, which is set to recruit 234,000 teachers for its schools, has sold stamps worth Rs 50 million to aspirants.
www.hindustantimes.com /news/7170_0,000900030002.htm   (336 words)

  
 Bihar - Gospel for Asia
The state of Bihar in North India is home to nearly 83 million people.
Despite its ties to Buddhism, Bihar's population is now 77 percent Hindu and 15 percent Muslim.
Bihar is one of India's poorest states and has a low literacy rate.
www.gfa.org /bihar   (311 words)

  
 What Ails Bihar? - HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bihar's industrial growth throughout the planning era has been less than half the national average.
Bihar records one of the highest crime rates in the country, although not the highest, as many insist.
Bihar needs to accord top priority to primary education to get rid of the "most illiterate state" tag.
www.hindustantimes.in /news/7273_0,00160077.htm   (351 words)

  
 HISTORY-bihar-webindia123.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bihar was the region where Buddhism evolved and finds mention in the Vedas, Puranas, Epics etc. This was one of the most remarkable aspect that makes it an important region that added to the diverse cultures of the Indian Union.
During the Medieval period Bihar witnessed the Muslim invasion which was followed by the rule of local Rajput clans.
A part of Bihar comprising mainly forest tracks of Chhotanagpur plateau and Santhal paragana, the homeland of the tribals became a separate state Jharkhand on November 15th, 2000.
www.webindia123.com /BIHAR/history/history.htm   (276 words)

  
 Bihar Information, Bihar State Profile, Bihar Holiday Packages, Bihar Tourist Places
Bihar was India’s first cradle of civilization after Indus Valley, around 6th B.C., when a dynamic combination of geographical and political factors ensured its hegemony over the entire sub-continent.
Bihar is the home of Emperor Ashoka who preached "ahimsa" or non-violence and spread the message of Buddhism throughout the world.
Bihar is situated in the eastern part of India with the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal to its north and the states of Orissa, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh flanking its sides.
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 Bihar History | ema_01_package.xml
A state of the Indian Union, Bihar is bordered on the north by Nepal and by the states of West Bengal on the east, Uttar Pradesh on the west, Orissa on the south, and the new state of Jharkhand on the south and southwest.
Bihar was a part of the Bengal presidency until 12 December 1911, when a separate state of Bihar and Orissa was formed.
South Bihar was famous for its rich mineral resources, but since the bifurcation of the state in 2000, the industrial and mineral-rich zone has come within the state of Jharkhand.
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 Bihar, bihar arts,crafts and handicrafts, bihar paintings, pottery, gems and jewellery.
Bihar, bihar arts,crafts and handicrafts, bihar paintings, pottery, gems and jewellery.
The two artists whose views not only of Bihar but of all India excel all others were Thomas Daniell and his nephew William, who spent seven years in India from 1786 to 1793.
Two of their finest aquatints are those of a part of the city of Patna and the mausoleum of Nawab Asaf Khan at Rajmahal which was the capital of Bihar and Bengal in the seventeenth century.
www.indiaprofile.com /art-crafts/biharviews.htm   (867 words)

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