Bihar
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The Hindification of East India
Bihar, Odisha, Assam, and now Bengal: the old Bengal Presidency votes as a single saffron block. A century after the bhadralok forced Curzon to reunite Bengal, their grandchildren have completed…
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Podcast explores advances in gender equality in India
X.T.M recommends a podcast on grassroots progress on gender equality in rural Bihar, then reflects as a Bahá’í on how the faith might suit Dharmic backgrounds and how Christianity has…
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Fear of a Bihari nation
A note on diverging fertility in neighbouring regions: Bihar at about 3.0 against West Bengal at 1.6, suggesting West Bengal’s earlier population growth reflected the arrival of Hindus from East…
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Book Review- Sanghi Who Never Went to a Shakha: Anatomy of Polarization
A review of Rahul Roushan’s memoir Sanghi Who Never Went to a Shakha, which traces his move from indifference to his Hindu identity to wholesale acceptance of it and a…
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The Indian Neolithic
Observes that understanding South Asian genetic patterning needs better knowledge of Neolithic archaeology, citing Chirand in Bihar, with extensive Neolithic remains at least 4,500 years old, and asking who those…
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India’s massive fertility gradient
Razib Khan points to the fertility gap between Bihar (total fertility rate about 3.3) and West Bengal (about 1.6) as one of the largest in the world, comparing it with…
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Indians in Kerala are less religiously polarized, those in Bihar are more polarized
Razib Khan uses World Values Survey regional data to check commenters’ claims, finding trust across religions is highest in Kerala and lowest in Bihar. He cautions that single results need…
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Lt Gen SK Sinha
Hamid Hussain remembers Lieutenant General S. K. Sinha (1926-2016), who came from a Bihar police family, joined the army at the end of the Second World War and spent three…
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Open doors (after 817 years)
As Nalanda University reopens after 817 years, the author hopes international funding and its distinguished board will give a good start for Bihar, but remains sceptical for lack of a…
