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Bihar Travel Guide
Like
in all ancient civilizations, the earliest human settlements in India sprung
up around its magnificent rivers.
Few rivers of the world have moulded the culture, economy and personality of
the people dwelling on their banks as the river Ganga has.
Cutting straight across Bihar from west to east, the bounteous Ganga nurtured
a veritable fountainhead of political and cultural civilizations, on its shores,
down the millennia.
Here, kingdom after kingdom rose and fell, leaving their indelible mark on history.
Rival kings fought legendary battles, devastating the land and people.
Yet, by some strange alchemy, the same land saw the birth of some of the most
noble and progressive religious teachers like the Buddha, Mahavira and Guru
Gobind Singh.
Then came the Muslims, ruling with panache for five centuries, to be eliminated
in turn, by the powerful British, who ruled till the middle of this century.
Bihar, today, is a quaint interface of the old and new. The state boasts of
an incredible range of mineral resources.
The coal belt in Bihar
is the mainstay of thermal energy in India. Bihar's modern visage sports some
of India's largest steel and mining industries.
Bihar offers to tourists a variegated wealth of Indian Civilization, history
and culture compled with enqeuisite scenic beauties and wild life within its
precinet are located, places like Rajgir and Patliputra, ancient capital of
mighty magadhan empire, Vaishali-the first republican state the world; Bodhgaya
where lord Buddha attained the suprime enlightenment, Nalanda-the great seat
of international learning and Patna Saheb-the birth place of Guru Govind Singh,
the last Guru of the Sikh.
Bihar has basked in the glory of Magadh Empire in the period of Mauryans, Guptas
and Pal, Vikramshila University, whose ruins speak of best as this glorious
deat of learning was constructed during Pal dynasty.
Since the inception of its history which dates back to 500 year ago Bihar has
been recognized on cradle of movements in the field of art, culture and religion
literature & human rights a postles of peace Lord Buddha, Mahavir, Great
Guru Govind Singh and Mahatma Gandhi and great sufie saint further heighened
with the visit of great chinese tourist Fahien, who has distinctly narrated
the attaintments of the University at that time took birth on this land.
It is the land on which the earliest seeds of democracy took roots and however
hossemed into the form of governence with the advent of Lord, it withessed a
cultural renaissance as in the preachings of the Lord Buddha was seen the right
answer to the woos & suffering of the rest humanity at the hands of loot,
tyranny & boilance.
