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15 unusual facts about Bihar


Aurangabad, Bihar

The district of Aurangabad was separated on 26.01.1973 as per the govt.notification no 07/11-2071-72 dated 19.01.1973.

Azar Kayvan

Around 1570, drawn by the religious revival which was taking place in India around the Emperor Akbar, he left with them to settle down in the town of Patna in the Bihar, where he lived until he died at around eighty-five years of age.

Bhagwan Ramji

He was born in Gundi village in Bhojpur district in the Indian state of Bihar on 12 September, 1937 and died on 29 November, 1992.

Catalyst Institute of Management and Advance Global Excellence

Catalyst Institute of ,,m,m, Management and Advance Global Excellence (CIMAGE) is a college located in Patna, Bihar, India.

Fasih Mohammed

Fasih Mahmood aka Fasih Mohammed is an alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba operative from Bihar accused of carrying out terror strikes in India and recruiting young boys for terror related activities.

Mehmood, originally from Bihar's Madhubani district, had moved to Saudi Arabia in 2007 after obtaining his bachelor of arts degree in technology from a college in the coastal Karnataka town of Bhatkal.

Gopalganj

Gopalganj, Bihar, is a town and a municipality in and the headquarters of Gopalganj district in Bihar, India

Kanthaka

Kanthaka (in Pali and Sanskrit) (6th century BC, in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India) was a favourite white horse of length eighteen cubits that was a royal servant of Prince Siddhartha, who later became Gautama Buddha.

Our Lady of Immaculate Conception Church, Mt. Poinsur

The church has had its own Vicar only from 1912 onwards, thus Humbert (J. Humbert, S.J., Catholic Bombay, Her Priests and Their Training, Catholic Press, Ranchi, Bihar, 1964. Vol. II, pg 219).

Paul Olaf Bodding

He was a celebrated scientist, and he is still well known among the santals living in the states of Jharkand, Bihar and Assam as well as in Bangladesh and the Scandinavian countries.

Rajkamal Chaudhary

Later he moved to Jayanagar, Barh and Nawada along with his father and would come back to his village during summer vacations.

Sandish Compound

Sandy's Compound is a 30 year old park and zoo located in Khanjarpur, Bhagalpur City, Bihar, near Jaiprakash Narayan, Udyan.

Shatrunjaya

These hills have similarities to other hills where Jain temples have been built in Bihar, Gwalior, Mount Abu and Girnar.

Sir Charles D'Oyly, 7th Baronet

In the following years, the posts he held, were the Government and City Collector of Customs in Calcutta (1818), the Opium Agent of Bihar (1821), the Commercial Resident of Patna (1831) and lastly the Senior Member of the Board of Customs, Salt, Opium and of the Marine (1833).

Stephanie Nolen

Her "Prerna Project", on an unusual school for Dalit (or "untouchable") girls in Bihar, won accolades including a National Newspaper Award, an Online News Award, and an honorable mention for a Webby Award.


Anga

Based on Mahabharata evidence, the kingdom of the Angas roughly corresponded to the districts of Bhagalpur, Banka, Purnia, Munger, Katihar and Jamui in Bihar and districts of Deoghar, Godda, and Sahebganj in Jharkhand; later extended to include Malda and Uttar Dinajpur in Bengal.

Antony MacDonnell, 1st Baron MacDonnell

On arrival in India, MacDonnell served initially in various districts of Bihar and Bengal, and on the basis of his experiences in the Bengal Famine of 1873–4, he wrote his first book, Food-Grain Supply and Famine Relief in Bihar and Bengal, published in 1876.

Badar Ali

His son, Nazir Ali (1805 - 1890), worked as a Revenue Minister under Babu Kunwar Singh and Amar Singh Rathore in Arrah, Bihar.

Barauni–Gorakhpur, Raxaul and Jainagar lines

The Barauni–Gorakhpur, Raxaul and Jainagar lines are a set of three lines connecting Barauni in the Indian state of Bihar with Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh.

Bariyarpur, Bara

Bariyarpur is a place situated in Munger, Bihar, India, its geographical coordinates are 25° 18' 0" North, 86° 35' 0" East and its original name (with diacritics) is Bariārpur.

Bihari literature

Ramesh Chandra Prasad Sinha is a novelist from Patna, Bihar, and is the first Indian to translate the Iliad and Odyssey into Hindi.

Bishen

The Bisen Suryavanshi Rajputs found in the Gangetic plains of India in the province of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar

British Lingua

Thousands of students have been trained in spoken English Skills besides grooming their personality.The project- Spoken English Skills and Capacity Building Training programme for the Bihar Government High schoolteachers has been introduced in four districts, Madhubani, Darbhanga, Banka and Bhagalpur, with the encouragement of the State Council for Education Research Training Bihar, India.

Chandan Mitra

In 1984 he was awarded a Radical Islam and the Nuclear Bom degree at Oxford University, where he was a member of Magdalen College, for the thesis "Political mobilisation and the nationalism movement in India – a study of eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, 1936-1942" written under supervision of the noted Indian historian Dr Tapan Raychaudhuri.

Chapra

Chhapra - headquarters of Saran district in the state of Bihar

Daud Khan Karrani

Akbar ordered the governor of Bihar, Muzaffar Khan Turbati and other generals to join.

Dhananjay Mahato

During the tenure of then Chief Minister of Bihar Jagannath Mishra, he built the Gunda Bihar Railway Station.

Dildarnagar Fatehpur Bazar

The city of Dildarnagar is located in the border of uttar pradesh India, in the eastern part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, along the left is bank of the karamnasa river.Its neighbouring cities are Varanasi, Jaunpur, Buxar in Bihar, Ballia, Mau, Chandauli and Azamgarh.

Gopalganj district, India

Rabri Devi, first Woman Chief Minister of Bihar, wife of Mr.Laloo Prasad Yadav

History of Odisha

The treaty eventually failed after the death of Munim Khan (governor of Bengal and Bihar) who died at the age of 80.

History of Ranchi district

Later Jahangir, the son of Akbar sent his forces under the leadership of the Governor of Bihar, Ibrahim Khan and captivated the forty-fifth Kokrah chief, Durjan Sal to Delhi and later to Gwalior for a period of twelve years.

Jagannath Mishra

Nitish Mishra, is also a politician, currently serving as cabinet minister in the Bihar state government.

Jagannath Sarkar

After joining the Communist Party, he moved to the working class areas of Bihar and then Jharkhand, were, in the 1940s and 1950s, he engaged in campaigns for miners' and colliery workers' rights.

Jasuben Shilpi

Her sculpture works have been installed in Indian states like Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Rajasthan, Bihar, Uttarakhand.

Jivaraj Papriwal

Today the images can be seen in Punjab, Haryana, Bengal, Bihar, Bundelkhand, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka, installed by Jivaraja in temples of the Digambar and Shvetambar sects.

Kathgola

It is located about half a km South-East of Mahimapur (modern Nashipur), a town in West Bengal, India just north of Murshidabad, the capital of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa during the reign of the Nawabs of Murshidabad.

Kuppaghat

Kuppa Ghat (Hindi: कुप्पाघाट) is a place located on the banks of the holy river Ganges at Bhagalpur, Bihar, India.

Laheriasarai

Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital at Karpoori Thakur roundbout is one of the most famous medical colleges of Bihar and most prominent of North Bihar.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

In a span of 10 years, Yadav became a formidable force in Bihar State politics, known for his popularity among the Muslim and Yadav voters.

Laxmangarh

The fictional character Balram Halwai from the bestselling novel The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga came from a village by the same name, but it isn't be the same village, because the book is actually set in the Gaya District in the vicinity of Bodh Gaya in the state of Bihar.

Legislative council

India: The Vidhan Parishad (or Legislative Council) in seven of the twenty-eight Indian states (Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh), the Vidhan Parishad serves as the upper house of a bicameral legislature

Madhusudan Das

Gopalballabh was the Magistrate at Bihar Province and the father of Rama Devi.

Majitar

Although students from all over the country, mainly Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Guwahati lives there at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology.

Narayan Medical College and Hospital

The Narayan Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) is a medical college in Indian State of Bihar and in the town of Dehri On Sone at Rohtas district, the nearest Post office is Jamuhar.

Paharpur

Paharpur, India, a census town Gaya district in the Indian state of Bihar

Parbatipur railway station

The Assam Behar State Railway started building westward in 1884 and by 1889, Parbatipur was connected with Katihar in Bihar.

Parihar

Populations are found in Rajasthan, Saurashtra - Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Jammu, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar.

Patna Dental College

Patna Dental College is an institution for Dental science and is a part of the Patna University, Patna, Bihar, India.

Punpun

Punpun nowadays came in highlights due to a character in the tv series Bhagyavidhaata on Colors tv named "Punpun Wali Bhabi" (a bahu in the serial) who belongs to Punpun village in Bihar.

Rajya Pala

Rajya Pala (908-940 AD), seventh ruler of the Pala Empire of eastern Indian subcontinent, mainly the Bengal and Bihar regions

Ramchandra Das Paramhans

He was born as Chandreshwar Tiwari into a prosperous Brahmin family in the Indian state of Bihar.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Patna

The North Bihar Mission with its four stations of Bettiah, Chuhari, Chakhani and Latonah was entrusted to the Tyrolese Capuchins in 1886.

Rupnagar district

Minutely carved and polished stone discs with a figure and motif associated with the cult of the Mother goddess of fertility have also been unearthed in the excavations from Taxila (now in Pakistan), Patna in the state of Bihar and other Mauryan sites.

Sadhu Yadav

The 2003 film Gangaajal, which is based on true events in Bihar and features a politician character called Sadhu Yadav, caused Yadav's supporters to attack cinemas when it was released.

Sanjaya Lall

Lall was born in Patna, Bihar, India, and graduated from Patna University in 1960 with a BA in economics, receiving the Gold Medal for ranking first in the university.

Saran division

Hathwa Raj was a zamindari in the Saran Division of Bihar belonging to Bhumihar Brahmins which encompassed 1,365 villages, was inhabited by more than 391,000 people, and produced an annual rental of almost a million rupees.

Sitarampur

Many local and passenger trains connect Sitarampur with Dhanbad, Gomoh, Chittaranjan, Asansol and Bardhaman and to Madhupur & Deoghar in Deoghar district of Jharkhand and various other parts of Jharkhand and Bihar.

Sunila Devi

Sunila Devi was born on 1 May 1963 at village Olipur in Lakhisarai district of Bihar.

Syed Sultan Ahmed

Sir Syed Sultan Ahmed, KCSI (1880–1963, Patna, Bihar, India)

Torda-Aranyos County

Torda-Aranyos county shared borders with the Hungarian counties Arad, Bihar, Kolozs, Maros-Torda, Kis-Küküllő, Alsó-Fehér and Hunyad.

Vinod Saroj

He is son of late politician Ramnath Saroj, who served as two time legislator from 1996 to 2007, winning the assembly elections 1996 and 2002 for Bihar constituency of district Pratapgarh.

Yugal Bihar Saket Dham Mandir

The Yugal Bihar Saket Dham Mandir is a 200-year-old temple in Ayodhya Uttar Pradesh, India near the Sarayu River.