Who is regarded as the architect of the movement for a separate Bihar province?
- A.Rajendra Prasad
- B.Anugrah Narayan Sinha
- C.Sachchidananda Sinha
- D.Mazharul Haque
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, Sachchidananda Sinha. 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. He is also remembered as the provisional chairman who presided over the first sitting of the Constituent Assembly in December 1946.
Option A is wrong because Rajendra Prasad, though a Bihari leader of the period and later the first President of India, is identified with Champaran and the national movement rather than with the separation campaign. Option B is wrong because Anugrah Narayan Sinha belongs to the later, post-independence phase as Bihar's first Deputy Chief Minister. Option D is wrong because Mazharul Haque supported the demand but was not its principal architect.
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Practice Questions
View allIn which year was Bihar separated from the Bengal Presidency to form a new province?
- A.1905
- B.1912
- C.1936
- D.1947
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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.
Read the full explanation →Bihar Diwas is celebrated every year on which date?
- A.1 April
- B.22 March
- C.15 November
- D.12 December
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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.
Read the full explanation →Orissa was separated from the Province of Bihar and Orissa in which year, and under which law?
- A.1919, under the Government of India Act, 1919
- B.1936, under the Government of India Act, 1935
- C.1947, under the Indian Independence Act
- D.1956, under the States Reorganisation Act
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The Act of 1935 reorganised several provinces, and on 1 April 1936 Orissa was constituted as a separate province, leaving Bihar on its own.
Read the full explanation →Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar on which date?
- A.1 November 2000
- B.9 November 2000
- C.15 November 2000
- D.22 March 2000
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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.
Read the full explanation →Jharkhand became which numbered state of the Indian Union on its creation?
- A.Twenty-sixth
- B.Twenty-seventh
- C.Twenty-eighth
- D.Twenty-ninth
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Three states were created in quick succession in 2000: Chhattisgarh on 1 November as the twenty-sixth, Uttaranchal on 9 November as the twenty-seventh, and Jharkhand on 15 November as the twenty-eighth.
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