Bihar Mixed Quiz: Set 14

Shri Krishna Sinha, also called Shri Babu, led the Congress ministry of 1937 and became the first Chief Minister of Bihar after independence, remembered for the zamindari abolition legislation and for opening the Baidyanath temple to all.

Shukla was a cultivator of Champaran who met Gandhi at the Lucknow session of the Congress in 1916 and followed him from place to place until Gandhi agreed to come to the district.

After Gandhi recorded the statements of thousands of cultivators and sat on the official enquiry committee, the government accepted that the indigo obligation and the illegal cesses had to go, and the Act of 1918 abolished tinkathia and ordered the refund of a part of the money extorted from tenants.

Twenty kathas made a bigha, so the tenant had to put about a seventh of his holding under indigo for the European planter, on terms the planter fixed, and pay a string of illegal cesses besides.

The Province of Bihar and Orissa came into being on 22 March 1912, with Patna as its capital and Sir Charles Stuart Bayley as its first Lieutenant Governor.

Sher Shah withdrew the debased mixed coins in circulation and issued a silver rupiya of about one hundred and seventy eight grains of fixed purity, along with a copper dam, and set a rate between them.

The excavated remains of the ancient university at Nalanda were added to the World Heritage List in 2016 as an archaeological site, and they are the second World Heritage Site of Bihar.

Returning to his own district in the spring of 1858, Kunwar Singh met and defeated the force under Captain Le Grand in the forest near Jagdishpur on 23 April 1858 and re-entered his capital.

Bihar Diwas marks 22 March 1912, the day the Province of Bihar and Orissa was brought into existence and Bihar stopped being a part of the Bengal Presidency.

The third council met at Pataliputra in the reign of Ashoka, with Moggaliputta Tissa presiding.

The founding of Nalanda is credited to the Gupta ruler Kumaragupta I in the fifth century CE, after which it grew for seven hundred years under later Gupta, Maukhari and Pala patronage until the raid of Bakhtiyar Khalji about 1193 CE.

Vikramshila stood at Antichak village in Bhagalpur district, on raised ground overlooking the Ganga, and excavation has revealed a great cruciform stupa at the centre with monastic cells arranged in a square around it, a plan very different from the rows of monasteries at Nalanda.

He argued the case for separation in print, most notably in his 1906 pamphlet on the partition of Bengal and the separation of Bihar, used the press and the Bihari Students Conference to build opinion, and pressed the demand before the colonial government.

Rohtas district, with its headquarters at Sasaram, recorded the highest literacy rate among the districts of Bihar in 2011, a little above Patna, helped by its canal irrigated agriculture, its old towns and its schools.

Vikramshila was founded by the Pala king Dharmapala and became, after Nalanda, the most important centre of Buddhist learning in eastern India, especially of tantric studies; its ruins at Antichak in Bhagalpur district show a large brick stupa surrounded by monastic cells.

Kumaragupta I, who took the title Mahendraditya, founded the monastery and seat of learning at Nalanda in the fifth century CE.

The Act of 1935 reorganised several provinces, and on 1 April 1936 Orissa was constituted as a separate province, leaving Bihar on its own.

The Barabar hills in Jehanabad district hold the Lomas Rishi and Sudama caves, cut in the Mauryan period and polished inside to a mirror finish; the carved chaitya-arch doorway of the Lomas Rishi cave is the earliest example of that motif in stone.

Jharkhand came into being on that day under the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000, with Ranchi as its capital, Babulal Marandi as first Chief Minister and eighteen districts taken from Bihar.

The Golghar was built in 1786 to a design by Captain John Garstin of the Bengal Engineers, as a store of grain against another famine like that of 1770; its beehive shape and the two spiral stairways on the outside make it the best known colonial building of Patna.