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Mahakaleshwar stands at Ujjain on the bank of the Shipra and is the only south-facing jyotirlinga, known for the Bhasma Aarti performed before dawn.

The inscription is cut into the rock on the Tosham hill in Bhiwani district and is written in Brahmi characters of the Gupta age, which makes it one of the oldest written records found in the state.

Narnaul, in Mahendragarh district, is the richest small town in the state for sixteenth and seventeenth century building.

The Asigarh fort, also called the Hansi fort, stands on a high mound in Hansi town of Hisar district and is associated in local tradition with Prithviraj Chauhan, whose family held the region before the battles of Tarain.

Surajkund is a semicircular embankment of stone steps around a reservoir in the Aravalli foothills of Faridabad district, attributed to the Tomar king Surajpal of about the tenth century, from whom it takes its name.

Jyotisar lies a short distance from Kurukshetra town on the road to Pehowa, and an ancient banyan there is pointed out as the spot of the discourse, with a chariot sculpture and a tank beside it.

Fidai Khan, a foster brother of Aurangzeb who served as a governor and builder in his reign, laid out the garden at Pinjore in Panchkula district in the charbagh tradition, using the natural slope of the Shivalik foothills to carry water down a series of terraces with pavilions on them.

Babur had the Kabuli Bagh mosque raised at Panipat to mark his victory over Ibrahim Lodi in the first battle of Panipat in 1526, and tradition says it was named after his queen Mussammat Kabuli Begum.

The tomb stands on a mound at Thanesar, built in marble and sandstone with a tall Persian dome in a walled garden, and the resemblance to a small Mughal mausoleum has earned it the name Taj Mahal of Haryana.

He founded the town in 1354 and called it Hisar-e-Firoza, the fort of Firoz, and built a palace complex there that still holds the Gujari Mahal and the Lat ki Masjid, a mosque that reuses an older pillar shaft.

Rakhigarhi lies in Hisar district, where its mounds spread across more than one village and cover a larger area than any other Harappan site in India.

Known across the state as Shri Babu, he headed Bihar's government from 1946 and continued as Chief Minister after independence until his death in 1961.

He had captained the Indian hockey team that won gold at the 1928 Olympics, led the Adivasi Mahasabha from 1938, and converted it into the Jharkhand Party in 1950 to seek a separate state for the Chhotanagpur and Santhal Parganas region.

Birsa Munda led the Ulgulan, the great tumult, among the Munda people of the Chhotanagpur region at the end of the nineteenth century, demanding the restoration of tribal land rights, and he died in Ranchi jail in 1900.

Parliament passed this law under Article 3 of the Constitution, which lets it form a new state by separating territory from an existing one, and Jharkhand came into being on 15 November 2000.

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.

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

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.

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.