Abstract
BIHAR, the homeland of Buddhism, came under the East India Company in 1765, and remained merged in Bengal until 1912, when it reappeared as senior partner in the new province of Bihar and Orissa. In area Bihar is larger than Hungary; its population (nearly 600 to the square mile) is greater than that of Canada, Australia, and the Union of South Africa combined. Of its people, only 8 per cent, live in towns, a fact not easy for the 80-per-cent.-urbanised Englishman to appreciate.
Bihar Peasant Life: being a Discursive Catalogue of the Surroundings of the People of that Province.
By Sir George A. Grierson. (Prepared (in 1885) under Orders of the Government of Bengal.) Second and revised edition. Pp. iv + 4 + 443 + xvii + clv + 40 plates. (Patna: Government Printing Office, 1926.) 10 rupees.
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R., F. Bihar Peasant Life: being a Discursive Catalogue of the Surroundings of the People of that Province . Nature 118, 472–473 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118472a0
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