Author: Biswas, A.K.
Title: Understanding Bihar
Description: New Delhi, Blumoon Books, (1998). orig.wrappers. x, 310 pp, 21x14cm,, Study of colonial Bihar by the Ex-Vice Chancellor of B.R.Ambedkar Bihar University.. Minor rubbing, small light stain to bottom page-edges, VG. ¶ Contents: Public Health: Plague in Bihar; Economic: Opium in Bihar: Cultivation, Production & Trade; Economic: Saltpetre in Bihar; Labour Migration: A Case Study: Tribal Migration from Chota Nagpur Plateau to Assam Tea Gardens; Exploitation: Slavery in 19th Century Bihar; Social: Caste in Bihar: A Comparative Study; Injustice: A Case Study: Crime Against Woman - Draupadi of Deoria; Agricultural Education: PUSA: Little Known History of the Imperial Agricultural College; Natural Calamity: The Earthquake of 1934 in Bihar.

Keywords: Indian Colonial History, Colonial India, Economic, Social History, South Asia, , , ,