Word: bihar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Best Forgotten. The New Delhi accord was less precise in dealing with the fate of the 500,000 Biharis (non-Bengali Moslems) in Bangladesh. Many of the Biharis-so called because they emigrated from the Indian state of Bihar at the time of the 1947 partition-sided with the Pakistani military during the war, and for that reason face a painful future if they stay in Bangladesh. Most of them live in fear and squalor in huge refugee camps outside Dacca and other cities...
...Gandhi fears that if the Andhras are allowed to have their own separate state, it will open a Pandora's box of similar demands in other states plagued by economic disparities. Already, factions in her home state of Uttar Pradesh, as well as in Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, have made known their intention to seek realignment along economic lines. On the other hand, dividing Andhra Pradesh into two states may be the most equitable solution, since the Telanganans are as eager to have a separate state of their own as the Andhras...
After an egalitarian-minded Briton once took some Indian friends swimming at a British planters' club in Bihar State, his fellow members ordered the pool drained and refilled...
...Bangla Desh (an independent Bengali State). Immediately after fighting broke out between the fierce Pathans and Punjabis of the Pakistani army and the Bengali liberation forces, 1,500,000 terrified East Pakistanis-Moslems and Hindus alike -crossed into the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam, Meghalaya and Bihar. Now the escapees are mostly Hindu, and they bring tales of torture, rape and massacre. According to the new arrivals, the Pakistani government is blaming the 10 million Hindus of East Pakistan (population 78 million) for being the principal supporters of the now-outlawed Awami League of Sheik Mujibur Rahman...
Ananda Marga headquarters itself in a rather simple compound in Ranchi, a city of the eastern state of Bihar. During the past seven or eight years, the organization has set up more than 600 primary schools, many children's homes-orphans in India usually don't survive-hospitals, homes for the aged, and higher educational institutions. Ananda Marga is able to establish and operate these concerns at minimal expense-mainly because many are built by hand and all are run by Avadhutikas and Avadhutas, women and men who work as full-time volunteers and expect no material compensation...