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Encyclopedia > Bihar (disambiguation)

Bihar may refer to:

  • Bihar a state in India
  • Bihar River, India
  • Bihar (county), a historic county of the Kingdom of Hungary
  • Hajdú-Bihar, country in Hungary
  • Bihar, the Hungarian name of the Romanian Bihor County
  • Bihar (king), a khagan of the Khazars
  • Behar, a portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading, the second in the book of Deuteronomy.
  • Bihar Sharif - headquarters of Nalanda district. Also referrred to as Bihar by some.

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Bihar (5626 words)
Bihar saw a brief period of glory for six years during the rule of another Pashtun Sher Shah Suri, who was from Sasaram and built the longest road of the Indian subcontinent, the Grand Trunk Road, which starts from Sonargaon in Bangladesh and ends at Peshawar in Pakistan.
Bihar is one of the slow growing states of India and has a per capita income of $155 a year against India's average of $255.
The cuisine of the Bihar for the Hindu upper and middle classes is predominantly vegetarian, though the lower Hindu classes which form a significant population are traditional meat eaters with various fowl, pigs, small animals, snails, and field rats being part of their day-to-day existence.
Bihar - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (4038 words)
Its capital is Patna.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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