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Bihar and Orissa was a province of British India, [1] which included the present-day Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and parts of Odisha.The territories were conquered by the British in the 18th and 19th centuries, and were governed by the then Indian Civil Service of the Bengal Presidency, the largest administrative subdivision in British India.
The Orissa famine of 1866 caused an estimated 1 million deaths. [57] Following this, large-scale irrigation projects were undertaken. [58] In 1903, the Utkal Sammilani organisation was founded to demand the unification of Odia-speaking regions into one state. [59] On 1 April 1912, the Bihar and Orissa Province was formed. [60]
[8]: 148 The western districts formed the other province with Orissa and Bihar. [7]: 289 The union of western Bengal with Orissa and Bihar reduced the speakers of the Bengali language to a minority. [5]: 280 Muslims led by the Nawab Sallimullah of Dhaka supported the partition and Hindus opposed it. [9]: 39
The company gained administrative control over the Nawab's dominions, including Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. It gained the right to collect taxes on behalf of the Mughal Court after the Battle of Buxar in 1765. Bengal, Bihar and Orissa were made part of the Bengal Presidency and annexed into the British colonial empire in 1793.
Manbhum in Bihar and Orissa Province of Bengal Presidency, 1912. On 1 April 1936, the Bihar and Orissa Province was partitioned into two separate provinces Bihar and Orissa based on language, though Manbhum continued to remain a part of Bihar. Post-independence, linguistic tensions emerged in the district due to imposition of Hindi language ...
List of largest populated cities in Bihar governed by a municipal corporation [8]; Rank City Population (2011) Rank City Population (2011) 1: Patna: 1,684,222 11: Begusarai: 252,008
In the census of India 2011, an urban agglomeration has been defined as follows: [2] "An Urban Agglomeration is a continuous urban spread constituting a town and its adjoining outgrowths (OG), or two or more physically contiguous towns together with or without outgrowths of such towns.