• the famine of 1873–74 in Bihar, India was less severe than had originally been anticipated, and 100,000 tons of grain was left unused at the end of the relief efforts?
• the Fodder Scam involved the alleged embezzlement of about Rs. 950 crore (US$ 199 million) from the treasury of the Indian state of Bihar?
• despite tensions between Pakistan and India, a village called Pakistan in India's Bihar state was named in honour of its former inhabitants?
• about one million people were affected by floods in the Kamala and other rivers in northern Bihar in India in 2003?
• a "white mutiny" by disgruntled officers of the East India Company in the precincts of Munger Fort (pictured) in Bihar, India, in 1766 was put down by Lord Clive?
• Indian youth Meraj Khalid Noor was used for political campaigning in Muslim-dominated areas of Bihar as he resembled Osama Bin Laden?

Facts on topics related to Bihar

Bihari culture

• Hindi is the language used for educational and official matters in Bihari culture?

India

• 10,000 people protested against construction of a dam across the Subarnarekha River in India?
• 16th century Indian musician-composer Miyan Tansen laid the foundations of Hindustani classical music by mixing Sufi and Bhakti musical traditions ?
• 18th-century professional portrait painter Tilly Kettle was the first British painter to work in India?
• 22-year-old Indian cricketer Vikram Singh, regarded by many as the fastest bowler in India, played only 5 matches for his state before being selected for the national squad against Sri Lanka?
• 70% of the population of Tamil Nadu is engaged in the Indian state's agricultural sector and related industries for their livelihood?
• Rani Abbakka, who fought the Portuguese in the 16th century, is regarded as the 'first woman freedom fighter of India'?
• Arya Samaj spearheaded the 19th-century cow protection movement, Hindu opposition to Muslim cow sacrifice, leading to violent riots spreading all across India?
• footballer Bud Houghton was born in Madras to an Anglo-Indian family who migrated to England in 1947 when India gained independence from British rule?
• Australian Test cricketers Mark Waugh and Shane Warne were fined after accepting money from an Indian bookmaker known only as "John" in return for pitch and weather reports?
• Bollywood actress Shenaz Treasurywala was discovered while stuck in India when Kuwait Airways lost her luggage, including travel documents she needed to return to school in New York?

Delhi

• Aurangzeb, apart from imprisoning his brother Murad Baksh, had the dubious credit of incarcerating his eldest daughter Zebunnisa in the Salimgarh Fort in Delhi for 21 years till her death?
• Bahadur Shah Zafar II who wished to be buried at a burial ground in Zafar Mahal precincts in Delhi was deported to Rangoon after the Sepoy Mutiny where he died without honour?
• Coronation Park was the site of the 1911 Delhi Durbar that marked the shifting of the capital of India from Calcutta to Delhi?
• Hijron Ka Khanqah (pictured) is a pre-Mughal period monument of the fifteenth century where some Hijras (eunuchs) of Delhi were buried during the Lodi dynasty's reign?
• Kirori Singh Bainsla leads a protest movement that recently attempted to bring Delhi to a standstill?
• Mehrauli, a neighbourhood of Delhi housing the famous Qutb complex, was the capital of the Slave dynasty from 1206 to 1290?
• Moth Ki Masjid (pictured) was a new type of mosque built in 1505 by Miya Bhoiya, Prime Minister during Sikander Lodi's reign in the fourth city of medieval Delhi of Delhi Sultanate?
• Sahu Mewalal scored the only goal in the final of the first Asian Games football competition held at Delhi, India, in 1951?
• Sultan Ghari (pictured), built in 1231 for Prince Nasiru'd-Din Mahmud, eldest son of Iltumish, was the first Islamic mausoleum in the "funerary landscape of Delhi"?
• Mubarak Shah, founder of the lost city of Mubarakabad, was buried in Delhi's Kotla Mubarakpur Complex in 1434?