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Uttar Pradesh West Bengal
First posted on November 26th 2005, last revised on November 10th 2009






Bihar since 2000 . Republic of India

see also History of Jharkhand (since 2000)

Bihar 1971-2000 . Republic of India
Bihar 1947-1971 . Republic of India

Timeline : Bihar

Historical Atlas, Bihar, British India, India Page









DIRECTORY OF INTERNET SOURCES . . . EXTERNAL FILES
Country Profiles from India Net Zone; from Wikipedia; from Webindia 123
Links Category : Bihar, from Wikipedia
Links, on History Category : History of Bihar, from Wikipedia
Historical Maps click here
Maps of Jharkhand, from Maps of India, from Maps-India
North Western Provinces (Constable 1893), from Historical Maps of India
Bengal (Constable 1893), from Historical Maps of India
Maps : Eastern Hemisphere 550 B.C., Eastern Hemisphere 527 BC, Eastern Hemisphere 500 BC, Eastern Hemisphere 400 BC, Eastern Hemisphere 335 BC, Eastern Hemisphere 323 BC, Easern Hemisphere 300 BC, Eastern Hemisphere 200 BC, Eastern Hemisphere 100 BC, Eastern Hemisphere 050 BC, Eastern Hemisphere 001 AD, Eastern Hemisphere 050 AD, Eastern Hemisphere 100 AD, Eastern Hemisphere 200 AD, Eastern Hemisphere 300 AD, Eastern Hemisphere 400 AD, Eastern Hemisphere 450 AD, Eastern Hemisphere 500 AD, Eastern Hemisphere 565 AD, Eastern Hemisphere 600 AD, Eastern Hemisphere 610 AD, Eastern Hemisphere 700 AD, Eastern Hemisphere 800 AD, Eastern Hemisphere 900 AD, Eastern Hemisphere 1000 AD, Eastern Hemisphere 1025 AD, Eastern Hemisphere 1100 AD, Eastern Hemisphere 1200 AD, Eastern Hemisphere 1300 AD, Eastern Hemisphere 1400 AD, Eastern Hemisphere 1500 AD, by Thomas Lessman
Timelines
Accounts of History History of Bihar, from Webindia 123, from Wikipedia; from Govt. of Bihar
Encyclopedia Entries Articles Behar, Bhagalpur, Patna, from EB 1911
Article Bihar, Bhagalpur Division, Bhagalpur District, Santal Parganas, Purnea District, Monghyr District, Patna Division, Patna District, Patna City, Gaya District, Gaya Subdivision, Saran District, Shahabad District, Champaran (District), Muzaffarpur District, Darbhanga District Bankipore (Subdivision, Town) from Imperial Gazetteer of India (1909), posted by DSAL
Article Bihar, Patna, Bhagalpur, from Meyers Konversationslexikon 1885-1892, in German
Article Biharis, from Banglapedia
E.G. Balfour, The cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, commercial, industrial, and scientific; products of the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms, useful arts and manufactures (1885), vol.1, vol.2, vol.3, posted on Internet Archive; search for Bihar
Politics Government & Politics in Bihar, from Wikipedia
Category : Indian Political Parties - Bihar, from Wikipedia
Military
Economy from Webindia 123, from Economy Watch; from Wikipedia
Crafts of Bihar, from India Crafts
Ethnology People of Bihar, from Webindia 123
Religion Religion in Bihar, from Webindia 123
Bihar Temples, from Indian Temples Portal, from India Net Zone
Archdiocese of Patna, from Catholic Encyclopedia
Patron Saint Index : Diocese of Buxar
Bihar Mennonite Mandli (Bihar Mennonite Church), Palamau (Bihar, India), from GAMEO
Local History Article Patna, History of, from Wikipedia
History of Patna, from India Site
Institutions History of Patna University
Structurae : Bihar
Bibliography Search RHS Bibliography for Bihar
D. Ludden, Bibliography on South Asian Agrarian History (c.1990)
Others India and the 1966 to 1967 Bihar Famine, from Disaster Diplomacy; Democracy, News Media and Famine Prevention : Amartya Sen and the Bihar Famine of 1966-67, by Thomas L. Myhrvold-Hanssen, 2003
Others India Environment Portal : Bihar
Terrestrial Ecoregions : Indo-Malayan, from WWF; scroll down for Lower Gangetic Plains Moist Deciduous Forests, Upper Gangetic Plains Moist Deciduous Forests

DIRECTORY OF INTERNET SOURCES . . . EXTERNALLY POSTED DOCUMENTS
Lists of Statesmen from World Statesmen (B. Cahoon), scroll down
Population Figures Historical Population Statistics : India, by State (Province), from Population Statistics, by Jan Lahmeyer
Population of Cities : India, Tamil Nadu, from City Population
Document Collections Newspaper Archive, requires registration, charges a modest fee
Jewish Chronicle, since 1841; New York Times, click Archive 1851-1980, since 1980; Time Magazine, Archive, since 1923; Newsweek Archive, since 1993; The Economist : Research, reaches back to 1997
Bihar Article Archive, from Keepmedia
Search Hansard for Behar, Bihar
Search Papers Past for Behar, Bihar (Collection of New Zealand Newspapers 1839-1920)
Online Newspapers
Election Results from Psephos (since 2000)
India Election Database, results since 1989
Election Database, from Election Commission of India, results since 1977
Statistical Reports of State Elections, from Election Commission of India
Archives, Libraries, Musea Bihar, from Showcaves
Search Janus (catalogues of archives and manuscript collections held throughout Cambridge) for Bihar
State Symbols
Others Photos of Bihar, by Peter Langer

PRINTED REFERENCE
Online Libraries Indcat, Online Uinion Catalogue of Indian Universities, from INFLIBNET, click Union Database
General Accounts S. Playne, Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa : their history, people, commerce and industrial resources (1917), posted on Internet Archive
Indian records, with a commercial view of the relations between the British government and the nawabs nazim of Bengal, Behar and Orissa .. (1870), posted on Internet Archive
W. Adam, Third report on the state of education in Bengal;+ including some account of the state of education in Behar, and a consideration of the means adapted to the improvement and extension of public instruction in both provinces (1836), posted on Internet Archive
J.R. Hand, Early English Administration of Bihar, 1781-1785 (1894), posted on Internet Archive
Yearbooks Article Behar and Orissa, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1913 p. 614 (on events of 1912) [G]
Articles : India and Dependencies : Bihar and Orissa, in : Statesman's Yearbook 1928 pp.151-152 (data of 1926-1928); India and Dependencies : Bihar and Orissa, Feudatory States, ibid. p.165 [G]
Article : Bihar, in : Statesman's Yearbook 1937 pp.160-161 (data of 1935-1937) [G]
Article : India : Bihar, in : Statesman's Yearbook 1970-1971 pp.356-358, 1975-1976 pp.361-362, 1976-1977 pp.361-363, 1978-1979 pp.628-629, 1979-1980 pp.632-634, 1980-1981 pp.630-631, 1981-1982 pp.633-635, 1983-1984 pp.635-637, 1984-1985 pp.636-638, 1985-1986 pp.640-641, 1986-1987 pp.642-644, 1987-1988 pp.649-650, 1988-1989 pp.651-652, 1989-1990 pp.657-658, 1990-1991 pp.658-659, 1991-1992 pp.655-656, 1992-1993 pp.727-729, 1993-1994 pp.728-729, 1994-1995 pp.720-721, 1995-1996 pp.716-718, 1996-1997 pp.658-660, 1997-1998 pp.663-665, 1998-1999 pp.714-716, 2000 pp.821-823, 2001 pp.798-800, 2002 pp.830-832, 2003 pp.832-834, 2004 pp.836-838, 2005 pp.837-838, 2006 pp.833-835 [G]