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| | Tourism of India - States of India - Bihar |
 | | Bihar is also a religious center for Jains and Hindus. | | | Of all India's states, Bihar is the one most intimately linked to the Buddha's life, resulting in a trail of pilgrimages which have come to be known as the "Buddhist Circuit". | | | The very name Bihar is derived from the word vihara, which means Buddhist monastery. |
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| | India-States Bihar |
| | Bihar Shariff is a major Muslim pilgrim centre. | | | It is the land of great religions, like Buddhism, making it a great pilgrim centre for Buddhist's. | | | Nearby Kandalpur and Pavapuri are major Jain pilgrim centre. |
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http://www.indiatravelite.com/states/bihar.htm
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| | Bihar School of Yoga |
| | Bihar Yoga Bharati was founded by Swami Niranjanananda in 1994 and recognized as a deemed university in 2000. | | | The roots of Bihar Yoga Bharati lie in Rishikesh, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where the renowned yogic master, Swami Sivananda taught an integral approach to the practice of yoga. | | | He founded Bihar Yoga Bharati with the aim of preserving and regenerating the yogic sciences by combining academic and scientific methodology with a spiritual vision. |
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http://www.keepfitwithyoga.com/biscofyo.html
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| | Bihar Travel, Bihar India, Bihar City Guide, India Bihar, Places in Bihar |
| | Bihar, an eastern Indian state and 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. | | | The early history of Bihar is lost as the major events and happenings were not documented but with the advent of Jain and Buddhist texts documentation of events began. | | | The simple tribal people of Bihar express their creative joy through the Chhau dance, which was originally a war dance, preformed in order to perfect fighting techniques. |
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http://www.indianvisit.com/ivnew/states_of_india/bihar.html
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| | It was here that Prince Gautam attained enlightenment, became the Buddha- at the present Bodh Gaya- a town in central Bihar; and the great religion of Buddhism was born. | | | Earliest myths and legends of Hinduism - the Sanatana (Eternal) Dharma - are associated with Bihar. | | | It is here also that Lord Mahavira, the founder of another great religion, Jainism, was born and attained nirvana (death). |
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http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/endomv/Bihhist.htm
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| | Bihar - Wikipédia |
| | A nouveau, en 2000, 18 districts administratifs du Bihar lui sont retranchés pour former l'État du Jharkhand. | | | Le mot "Bihar" trouve d'ailleurs son origine das le mot sanskrit "Vihara" qui signifie monastère bouddhiste. | | | Muhammad Khilji, un général de Muhammad Ghûrî s'empare du Bihar au XII |
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| | TraveliteIndia.com: Bihar, Land of Lord Buddha, Archaelogical Museum, sculptures, Stupa and other info about Buddhist ... |
| | Bihar was a great religious centre for Jains, Hindus and most importantly, Buddhists. | | | There is also an International Centre for the Study of Buddhism that was established in 1951. | | | TraveliteIndia.com: Bihar, Land of Lord Buddha, Archaelogical Museum, sculptures, Stupa and other info about Buddhist circuit. |
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http://www.traveliteindia.com/guide/state/bihar.asp
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| | Prospects of Radical Change in Bihar |
| | Covering the states of Bihar, Orissa and Bengal, the Santhals were joined on many occasions by poor and landless peasants of lower castes. | | | After a considerable gap of around sixty years, when the erstwhile BPKS was led by Sahajanand, the peasantry of Bihar are once more asserting themselves. | | | Unlike Naxalbari in West Bengal, the place of its genesis, the Marxist-Leninist struggle in Bihar, has been able to endure, against all odds, till the very present. |
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| | Destination Bihar the land of Buddha |
| | Vaishali in northern Bihar, the centre of the Lichchavis kingdom is rated as the most ancient and credited as the world's first republic. | | | Bihar has a very ancient and glorious history to boast with. | | | The earliest documented history of Bihar is provided by the Jain and Buddhist texts, which shed light to the sixteen Mahajanapadas those flourished during the 6 |
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| | Temples And Legends Of India |
| | Deoghar or the abode of the Gods, is the headquarters of the sub-division of the same name of the district of Santhal Parganas. | | | Worship of a deity without a devotional darshanis rather rare in India.The deity of Sri Sri Ma Paudi, enshrined at Porahat first and then at Seraikella in Bihar, is a deity of that category. | | | The Girija Temple at Phulher has a background which needs mention. |
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http://www.hindubooks.org/temples/bihar
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| | Yoga Magazine - Magazine of the Bihar School of Yoga |
| | The Bihar School of Yoga is famous for its authoritative publications on all aspects of Yoga, both philosophical and practical. | | | To reflect this we include information sections on the Bihar School of Yoga, Bihar Yoga Bharati and Satyananda Yoga in the about pages. | | | Yoga Magazine, published by Sivananda Math, contains information about the Bihar School of Yoga, the Yoga Research Foundation, Bihar Yoga Bharati (the world's first Yoga University) and other affiliated organisations. |
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http://www.yogamag.net
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| | "Lalu is Bihar's bane" - What Ails Bihar? - HindustanTimes.com |
| | I wasn't with him; I made him what he is. Backward castes have a great deal "historical hunger" for power, and I was the only one who backed him as a representative of the Backwards (for Bihar's chief ministership) in 1990. | | | What are the reasons behind caste violence in Bihar? | | | But you were yourself with Lalu Prasad Yadav for close to seven years? |
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/7278_916494,001600770001.htm
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| | Bihar |
| | The name Bihar is perhaps a derivative of the Buddhist word "Vihar" which finds mention in Nawakat-E-Nasiri of 1263 and also in Kirtilata of the great poet Vidyapati in 1390. | | | century, Bihar lost its past glory and it no longer remained as the political and cultural centre of India. | | | If Sisunag kings strengthened Magadha empire, it is the Maurya and Gupta kings made ancient Bihar a prosperous and enlightened State as known from the history. |
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http://www.theindianculture.com/states/Bihar/Bihar.htm
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| | BBC NEWS South Asia Bihar's loyalties cast in stone |
| | A total of 16.5% of Bihar's people are Muslims and another 12.7% belong to the Yadav caste - one of the designated "other backward castes" that make up 35% of the population. | | | Lower still are the scheduled castes that comprise 14% of the people. | | | Political scientists say the entrenched caste system is the bane of development and law in Bihar. |
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| | INDOlink - India General News - Bihar, Assam Floods Scene Worsens Further; Death Toll Over 150 |
| | More than seven million people are affected in Bihar, the authorities say, and over 50 have died in the flooding. | | | The earlier three incidents, which claimed over a dozen lives, took place in Samastipur, Darbhanga and Madhubani districts. | | | There are reports of more people drowning in Motihari, Muzaffarpur and Darbhanga districts where swollen rivers of Burhi Gandak, Kamla Balan and Kosi have created havoc in the past five days. |
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| | Find Bihar at myEweb.com |
| | Etymologically, the name Bihar derives from the Sanskrit Vihara which means abode... | | | The definitive site for news and views from Indian state of Bihar page... | | | Bihar pronunciation (helpand#183;info) (Hindi:) is a state of the Indian union situated... |
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| | When we speak of Bihar we are remembered of ancient India when Buddhism was evolving into what now is an universal religion. | | | At one time in the epoch of history these "viharas" were all strewn over the landscape of Bihar, around villages and cities alike. |
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| | Bihar- A State in Crisis |
| | By the passage of time, the situation in Bihar went on deteriorating. | | | The recent sacrifice of Sarita - Mahesh in Sabdo village or Manju of Jehanabad shows that a lot of fire brand activists are active in their mission and definitely it can be said with full confidence that Bihar is certainly not dead. | | | After bifurcation of Bihar in 1912, the state had received only 5.5 lac rupees as its share and the government had started functioning with a paltry sum of 1.25 crore only. |
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| | Bihar Buddhiwadi Samaj |
| | Bihar Buddhiwadi Samaj is a non-profit, educational membership-society for promoting rationalism, humanism, atheism and secularism. | | | Bihar Buddhiwadi Samaj (Bihar Rationalist Society -- BRS) is closely associated with Buddhiwadi Foundation, a registered, non-profit, educational trust for promoting rationalism-humanism and for eradicating blind faith and superstition. | | | Postal Address: 216- A, S. Puri, Patna - 800001, Bihar, INDIA. |
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| | Bihar on Encyclopedia.com |
| | 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. | | | 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 languishes as politicians battle for the state |
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| | BBC NEWS World South Asia India's lawless state |
| | Rural Bihar is a feudal society, where caste barriers are rigidly enforced and where landowners live in palatial houses while those who work on their land live nearby in mud huts. | | | The reasons for Bihar's decline are manifold, but a key reason is its entrenched caste system. | | | Economists place Bihar's debt at $5bn because of which, they say, the state cannot pay for basic services. |
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| | BIHAR |
| | The cradle of Buddhism and Jainism, the name of the state is derived from ‘Vihar’ meaning | | | It was known as Pataliputra and the Mauryas ruled their great empire from here in the 2nd and 3rd century B.C. Remains of this city still exist as do those of later times - of the Mughals and the British. | | | The Bodhgaya miniatures on leaf are also beautiful. |
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| | The Bihar Regiment |
| | Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim influences intermingled to produce a soldiery which was traditionally arms bearing, disciplined and deeply religious. | | | These were formed by the men from the Bhojpur region of Bihar. | | | The 2nd was raised in 1942 as part of the Bihar Regiment. |
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http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/LAND-FORCES/Army/Regiments/Bihar.html
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| | Freezerbox Magazine - Bihar's Blues |
| | Great things were expected from historically charmed Bihar, the site of Buddha's enlightenment and a renowned seat of Arabic and Persian learning under the Moghuls. | | | The Mahtos family was of the Kahar caste, near the very bottom of Bihar's long and dizzyingly varied caste ladder. | | | Not without reason, the Naxalites view the police as caste allies and state protectors of the landlord militias, who are rarely prosecuted. |
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| | Bihar Economy in a Death |
| | And if Dr.GS Bhalla, who spoke in this very conference day before yesterday, is to be believed, Bihar is the only Indian state where the per capita income has over the years actually declined. | | | Bihar is underdeveloped, there can be no dispute over that. | | | Sankat jab vikral ho jata hai, Mahabharat tab anivarya ho uthta hai! |
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| | Cybersteering.com - Cruising: Travelling in Bihar |
| | It taught me the skills of survival in today's fast moving world. | | | There is a marked difference in the way of travelling in Bihar as compared to say a metropolitan city like Delhi or Mumbai. | | | Travelling in Bihar was one of the most important learning experiences of my life. |
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http://www.cybersteering.com/cruise/driving/bihar.html
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| | Bihar: Too much water |
| | At one hand we are claiming that by 2020 we will be a developed country but do we have any road map to reach there? | | | Meanwhile, the people of Bihar are waiting for the rivers to calm down and the waters to subside so they can piece together the parts of their lives. | | | In Bihar many people loss their life because of flood. |
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| | Bihar (county) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Bihar was one of the oldest counties of the Kingdom of Hungary, formed before the 12th century. | | | The Circle on the left bank of the Theiss contained eight counties, including Bihar Megye (Megye means county), with the other seven being Békés, Hajdú, Máramaros, Szabolcs, Szatmár, Szilágy and Ugocsa. | | | The Romanian part of former Bihar county now forms the Romanian county Bihor, except the southernmost part (around Beliu), which is in Arad county. |
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| | What Ails Bihar? - HindustanTimes.com |
| | Mocking Bihar, and its people, has been in fashion in India for some years now. | | | The links between these three aspects of Bihar's society are much deeper and much more sinister than apparent. | | | Surfers have ranked Bihar's problems in the order of importance that they accord them. |
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| | SLOW TRAIN TO PATNA - NI 141 - The FACTS: Bihar at a glance |
| | All 21 coalfields in Bihar were nationalised in 1972. | | | In addition, a substantial ethnic minority of tribals (adivasis) – India& original inhabitants – live in the Chotanagpur plateau region of southern Bihar. | | | Bihar has greater mineral resources than any other State in India. |
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| | 'Bihar is the ultimate land of opportunities' |
| | Sharma says, in Jerusalem, the cradle of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, some 5,000 tourists visit day. | | | More than the numbers, the manner in which the dapper bureaucrats went about their business showed that things are changing in the Bihar administration. | | | Sub: Once again Bihar is in the hands of 'Good Souls' |
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| | Bihar needs your help! |
| | I have spent the first 28 years of my life in Bihar (Jamshedpur, now in Jharkhand). | | | I have had my education there and know the... | | | Bihar represents everything that a state in the Indian Union shouldn't be, and presiding over all this chaos is Lalu Prasad Yadav, India's railway minister, and his wife Chief Minister Rabri Devi. |
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| | The Hindu : Front Page : Nitish Kumar wins clear mandate in Bihar |
| | Later in the night, the Election Commission issued a notification constituting the 14th Bihar Assembly. | | | This brings to a close the 15-year rule of the Lalu Prasad-led Rashtriya Janata Dal in the State. | | | Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu |
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http://www.hindu.com/2005/11/23/stories/2005112311750100.htm
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| | PatnaDaily.Com - Readers Write |
| | Bihar demands more than what Ministers say in public. | | | n November 22nd, 2005 a new phenomenon was creating magic for millions of Biharis living outside Bihar, a perceptible change in attitude of non-Biharis towards Biharis across the globe when election results kept confirming the loss of Laloo in Bihar. | | | For this radio and TV channels should be used where Ministers and Chief Minister should be heard and shown respectively pleading people of Bihar to maintain order every day in such a way that it overwhelms the current mindset of people of Bihar in positive direction. |
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| | Welcome to the Official Web-Site of Bihar State Tourism Development Corporation |
| | BSTDC has taken major initiatives to show the potential of tourist places of Bihar to the World. | | | Disclaimer : This website should not be constructed as an exhaustive information about tariff, bookings, provisions and availability. | | | It aims to provide information related to important tourist places of Bihar and Jharkhand State. |
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| | Indigo Arts Gallery Art from Asia Indian Folk Painting 1 |
| | For centuries the women of Mithila have decorated the walls of their houses with intricate, linear designs on the occasion of marriages and other ceremonies, Painting is a key part of the education of Mithila women, culminating in the painting of the walls of the kohbar, or nuptial chamber on the occasion of a wedding. | | | The women of Mithila were encouraged to apply their painting skills to paper as a means of supplementing their meager incomes. | | | The contemporary art of mithila painting was born in the early 1960’s, following the terrible Bihar famine. |
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| | PD News - Nitish Becomes the 33rd CM of Bihar |
| | Kumar wearing his usual kurta and pajama, after being sworn in as the new leader of Bihar, said that his priorities were to restore law and order in Bihar, provide good governance and bring development and economic prosperity which had been sorely lacking in the state for over 15 years. | | | Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and party state president Sushil Kumar Modi was among 26 other BJP and JD-U leader who were also sworn in as ministers in the new government. | | | Modi has been elected as the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar. |
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http://www.patnadaily.com/news05/november/112405/nitish_becomes_bihar_cm.html
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| | Search results for 'Bihar' |
| | This organization was founded by Rajendra Prasad and Mr.Sinha worked under his inspiring guidance. | | | The centers of Chikan work are Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh and Gaya in Bihar. | | | more ads Kamat's Potpourri Timeless Theater Map of Bihar Map of Bihar Map of the State of Bihar See Also: * Topics on North India at Kamat's Potpourri The maps (may not be to scale) are drawn by the author for explaining the context. |
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| | RJD uses "feel good" slogan to woo Bihar voters - NDTV.com - News on RJD uses "feel good" slogan to woo Bihar voters |
| | The ruling RJD party in Bihar has begun campaigning for the upcoming assembly elections in the state. | | | But now, the public relations department of Bihar government is using all means at its disposal to promote "feel good" among masses. | | | They allege that Lalu and his party, which has been in power for almost 15 years, are responsible for the state of affairs. |
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| | Bihar Government, Index |
| | Home >> State Governments and Union Territories in India >> Bihar Government |
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| | Another Bihar engineer dead - NDTV.com - News on Another Bihar engineer dead |
| | Another Bihar engineer dead - NDTV.com - News on Another Bihar engineer dead | | | While the controversy over the murder of IIT graduate and Bihar engineer Satyendra Dubey is yet to die down, the death of another engineer from the state is making headlines. | | | We will be able to comment only after we receive the report," said Dr Arvind Kumar, Magadh Medical College. |
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| | Sasaram city of Bihar - India |
| | Sasaram, a dreary and dusty little town is located on the Grand Trunk Road, the famous Indian Highway built by the master architect, Aliwal Khan, in the reign of Sher Shah in the mid -16th century. | | | There are frequent buses for Sasaram, from Patna, Varanasi and Gaya. | | | General Information & Accomdation info on Sasaram city of Bihar - India |
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