States PCS: Bihar GK for BPSC and other Bihar PCS Exams

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Asia’s largest and world’s second largest rhinoceros reproduction center is located in Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park. This park is located in Patna. The park is Patna’s most frequented picnic spot. It was opened to the public as a zoo in 1973. The park is famous for successful conservation breeding of one horned rhinoceros.

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Abdul Bari Siddiqui presented the Budget of Bihar for the year 2017–18.  Siddiqui is a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal political party. He won in the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly Election. He was a MLA who represented Alinagar which is in Darbhanga. He became the finance minister of Bihar in 2015 and left the office after 27 July 2017.

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Maurya dynasty used the silver coin, Pann as their Standard currency. The coins of Mauryan empire were cut and clipped for proper weight and adjustments. The coins were of different geometrical shapes like round, oval or elliptical with one symbol. After sometime, the number of  symbols were increased. Symbols were of geometrical of floral patterns like hills, birds, animals, human figures etc. A particular symbol represented a particular place or area. Silver coins were found in four denominations: pana, ardha-pana, pada and asta-bhaga or ardhapadika.

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Winter rains in Bihar are caused by the Cyclones coming from the Mediterranean Sea.
These cyclones are called Mediterranean cyclones or as Mediterranean hurricanes or medicanes.These are meteorological phenomena occasionally observed over the Mediterranean Sea. The western disturbance is an extratropical storm originating in the Mediterranean region that brings rainfall in the Indian subcontinent.

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Raghunath Brahmachari belonged to Begusarai district of Bihar. On 26th January 1931, a procession was being led by Raghunath Brahmachari at Prahas which is in Begusarai district. The Deputy Suprintendent of Police, Bashir Ahmad ordered his officials to open fire on public. Six people died in the shootout. This incident is also known as Begusarai Shootout.

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Boys Association was established in Darbhanga. It was established after a meeting which was held at Raj Maidan in Darbhanga. The meeting was presided over by Ashfaq Khan who was a barrister. This association played an important role in spreading Nationalism in this region.

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Adityasen ended the sovereignty of Tibet which was established for sometime in some areas of Bihar after the death of Harshavardhana. After the death of Harshavardhana, a local ruler of Bihar, Arjun troubled the Chinese travellers. In Retaliation, the armies of Tibet and Nepal attacked Bihar and Adityasen ended this war.

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Chapra city is situated on the banks of Ghaghara river. It joins the Ganga river at Revelganj which is a town in Chapra district of Saran division. The total length of Ghaghara river up to its confluence with the Ganga river at Revelganj in Bihar is 1080 Km. It is the largest tributary of the Ganga river by volume and the second longest tributary of the Ganga river by length after Yamuna river.

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Southern Plateau Region is located between the Kaimur districts in the West to Banka in the East in the state of Bihar.

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Sher Shah Suri, founder of Sur Dynasty introduced many reforms in his administration, Kabuliyat and Patta system was one of them. These are instruments of settlement for agricultural produce.
A Kabuliyat or consent was given by the raiyat/peasant if he accepted a particular offer while Patta system was a written deed between peasant and government about area or crop sown and revenue settlement.