His reign was headquartered in Magadha ( present-day Bihar ).

Many Bengali Hindus left for Calcutta after partition, and their place, particularly in commerce, was taken mostly by Muslims who had migrated from the Indian state of Bihar or by West Pakistanis from different provinces.

Eric Arthur Blair was born on 25 June 1903, in Motihari, Bihar, in India.

Modern day Afghanistan was conquered by the Maurya Empire, which was led by Chandragupta Maurya from Magadha ( modern day Bihar in India ).

This Act was extended to Panchayats in the tribal areas of eight States, namely Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Rajasthan from 24 December 1996.

Mughisuddin Yuzbak also conquered Bihar and Oudh from Delhi but was killed during an unsuccessful expedition in Assam.

In 1966, there was a close call in Bihar, when the United States allocated 900, 000 tons of grain to fight the famine.

Leo was the son of Emperor Constantine V by his first wife, Irene of Khazaria ( Tzitzak ), the daughter of a Khagan of the Khazars ( thought to be Bihar ).

* Lakshmi Tatma ( born 2005 ) was an ischiopagus conjoined twin born in Araria district in the state of Bihar, India.

Nalanda, an ancient center of higher learning in Bihar, India was sacked by Turkic Muslim invaders under Bakhtiyar Khalji in 1193.

The archbishopric of Bacs was founded by separating it from Kalocsa, and the See of Bihar was transferred to Nagyvárad, which was not entirely in line with the normative practice of the Church.

With Admiral Watson, Governor Drake and Mr. Watts, Clive made a gentlemen's agreement in which it was agreed to give the office of viceroy of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa to Mir Jafar, who was to pay a million sterling to the Company for its losses in Calcutta and the cost of its troops, half a million to the British inhabitants of Calcutta, £ 200, 000 to the native inhabitants, and £ 70, 000 to its Armenian merchants.

Mir Jafar was succeeded by his son Kasim Ali, though not before the government had been further demoralized by taking £ 100, 000 as a gift from the new Nawab ; while Kasim Ali had induced not only the viceroy of Awadh, but the emperor of Delhi himself, to invade Bihar.

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu ( also transliterated Caitanya, IAST ) ( 1486 – 1534 ) was a Vaishnava saint and social reformer in eastern India ( specifically present-day Bangladesh and states of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Manipur, Assam, and Orissa of India ) in the 16th century, worshipped by followers of Gaudiya Vaishnavism as the full incarnation of Lord Krishna.

Six Indian States of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu-Kashmir, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh have Bicameral Legislatures, these are called legislative councils ( Vidhan Parishad ), one third of who get elected every 6 years, there are graduate constituencies ( members elected exclusively by graduates ), teachers constituencies ( members elected exclusively by teachers ), municipal constituencies ( members elected exclusively by Mayors and council members of the city Governments ). From 1956 to 1958 the Andhra Pradesh Legislature was Unicameral and from 1958 when the Council was formed, it became bicameral and continued until 1 June 1985 when the Legislative Council was abolished. This continued until March 2007 when the Legislative Council was reestablished and elections were held for its seats.

The campaign was partially successful in 1949, when control passed from the Hindu mahant to the state government of Bihar, which established a temple management committee.

The Bodhi Tree, also known as Bo ( from the Sinhalese Bo ), was a large and very old Sacred Fig tree ( Ficus religiosa ) located in Bodh Gaya ( about from Patna in the Indian state of Bihar ), under which Siddhartha Gautama, the spiritual teacher later known as Gautama Buddha, is said to have achieved enlightenment, or Bodhi.

" Rajaji was also strongly opposed to proposals to include areas from Bihar and Orissa as part of the province of West Bengal.

As of 2008, many of the Kolkata rickshaw pullers originate from Bihar, considered to be one of the poorest states in India.

President Narayanan returned for reconsideration the advices from the Union cabinet to impose President's rule in a state, in accordance with Article 356, in two instances: one from the Gujral government ( 22 October 1997 ) seeking to dismiss the Kalyan Singh government in Uttar Pradesh, and the other from the Vajpayee government ( 25 September 1998 ) seeking to dismiss the Rabri Devi government in Bihar.

# Kausika was one of the names of Vishvamitra who was supposed to have lived in Mithila ( presently in Nepal's Terai and India's Bihar ) where his sister river Koshi still flows turbulently as she is said to be unmarried.

Bihar is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world with history of 3000 years.

Bihar is one of the most sacred places of various religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism & Islam.

Bentinck, in his 1829 report, states that 420 occurrences took place in one ( unspecified ) year in the ' Lower Provinces ' of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, and 44 in the ' Upper Provinces ' ( the upper Gangetic plain ).

Regular visits take place in both directions and members of ACT are currently sponsoring the education of children in a school in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India.

It is one of the most widespread Brahmin surnames in the fertile Gangetic plain region and in the Indian states of Delhi, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Orissa, Assam and West Bengal.

As of now, SP has 1 MLA in West Bengal, 3 MLAs in Maharashtra, 2 MLAs in Bihar and one MLA ( after 2008 polls ) in Madhya Pradesh.

In the 1996 general elections, Samata Party came into alliance with Bharatiya Janta Party and won on eight seats, six in Bihar and one each in Uttar Pradesh and Orissa.

Rennell was originally just one surveyor among many, but he showed such enthusiasm and ability that Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, the governor of Bengal and Bihar, promoted him to Surveyor-General in 1767.

Devi's appointment as the Chief Minister of Bihar was considered as one of the most unexpected and awkward decisions of the entire Indian political history because she was a traditional housewife and had no interest nor any prior experience in politics until then.

Rangoli and similar practices are often followed in different Indian states ; in Tamil Nadu, one has Kolam, Madanae in Rajasthan, Chowkpurna in Northern India, Alpana in West Bengal, Aripana in Bihar, chowk pujan in Uttar Pradesh etc.

A monument was constructed at the Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden, a statue at the Caudan Waterfront in Port Louis and another one in Patna, Bihar in India.

In the Lok Sabha elections 2004 JDP launched four candidates from West Bengal, two from Bihar and one from Jharkhand.

The party also has one from Bihar, whose name is Umadhar Prasad Singh.

The party contested the 1971 general election, with two candidates in Uttar Pradesh and one in Bihar.

Kumaoni is one of the 325 recognized Indian languages, and is spoken by over 2, 360, 000 ( 1998 ) people of Indian states of Uttarakhand-Almora, Nainital, Pithoragarh, Bageshwar, Champawat, Rudrapur ( Udhamsingh Nagar ) districts ; Uttar pradesh ; Assam ; Bihar ; Delhi ; Madhya Pradesh ; Maharashtra and Punjab, besides being spoken in some regions of Himachal Pradesh and Nepal.

In April 1986 more than one dozen Scheduled Caste labourers were killed by police in Arwal, Jehanabad District in Bihar.

The town of Gaya, in about 1810 AD, consisted of two parts: one the residence of the priests, which properly was called Gaya ; and the other the residence of lawyers and tradesmen, which was originally called Elahabad, but later on, as developed by a renowned collector “ Saheb ”- Mr. Thomas Law, it was called Sahebgunj. It is the birthplace of eminent nationalist Bihar Vibhuti Dr Anugrah Narain Sinha ; Bihar's first deputy Chief Minister cum Finance Minister. The last great ruler of Magadha was maharaja of Tekari.

In Bihar and Uttar Pradesh it is considered highly offensive, as it denotes that one is of mixed caste or a half-breed.

The institute still remains as one of the premier institutions for technical education in the state of Bihar and Jharkhand.

In the Mughals ' division of their Empire for fiscal purposes, it formed the central province of a governorship, with Bihar on the north-west, and Orissa on the south-west, jointly ruled by one deputy of the Delhi emperor.