Crossword-Solution: BIHAR 5 letters, 14 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Territorially the East India Company possessed, when he landed, nothing outside of the Ganges valley of Bengal, Bihar, and Benares, save a few spots on the Madras and Malabar coasts and the portion just before taken in the Mysore war.

The magistrate of Bihar had on his own authority prevented a child-widow of twelve, when drugged by the Brahmans, from being burned alive, after which, he wrote, "the girl and her friends were extremely grateful for my interposition." Taking advantage of this case, the Government asked the appellate judges, all Company's servants, to "ascertain how far the practice is founded on the religious opinions of the Hindoos.

The staple crop of rice in its many varieties and harvests at different seasons is lucidly brought before the Government, in language which it would have been well to remember or reproduce in the subsequent avoidable famines of Orissa and North Bihar.

Par là passent les troupeaux de bœufs, de moutons et de porcs, les marchands de viande fraîche, de fruits et de céréales, les rares voyageurs qui s'aventurent par le défilé, au lieu de prendre les railways de Kolosvar et de la vallée du Maros: Certes, la nature a généreusement doté le bassin qui se creuse entre les monts de Bihar, le Retyezat et le Paring.

Magadha (the modern Bihar) was the principal state and the dominions of its great king Asoka were almost the same as British India to-day.