Further reading

BOOKS

Barik, R.K. Land and caste politics in Bihar. Shipra Publications, 2006.

Brass, Paul. Language, religion and politics in north India. Cambridge: University Press, 1974.

Chakravarti, Anand. Social power and everyday class relations: agrarian transformation in north Bihar. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2001.

Chaudhary, Prasanna Kumar and Srikant. Bihar mein samajik parivartan ke kuchh ayaam. Delhi: Vani Publication, 2001.

Damodaran, Vinita. Broken promises: popular protest, Indian nationalism and the Congress party in Bihar, 1935-1946. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Das, Arvind N. The republic of Bihar. New Delhi: Penguin, 1992.

Das, Arvind N. Agrarian unrest and socio-economic change in Bihar, 1900-1980. New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1983.

Das, Arvind N. (ed.). Agrarian struggles in India after independence. Mumbai: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Datta, K.K. History of freedom movement in Bihar. Patna: Government of India, 1957.

Datta, V.N. and B.E. Cleghorn (eds.). A nationalist Muslim and Indian politics: being the selected correspondence of the late Dr Syed Mahmud. New Delhi: Macmillan, 1974.

Fernandes, George. Bihar: the struggle for a new India. New Delhi: J.R. Printing Press, 1974.

Frankel, Francine R. and M.S.A. Rao (eds.). Dominance and state power in modern India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Ghosh, Papiya. Muhajirs and the nation: Bihar in the 1940s. New Delhi: Routledge, 2010.

Gupta, Amit Kumar. Agrarian drama: the leftists and the rural poor in India, 1934–1951. New Delhi: Manohar, 1996.

Houlton, John. Bihar, the heart of India. Bombay: Orient Longmans, 1949.

Januzzi, Thomasson F. Agrarian crisis in India: the case of Bihar. New Delhi: Sangam Books, 1974.

Jha, Manish K. and Pushpendra (eds.). Traversing Bihar: the politics of development and social justice. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2014.

Jha, Shashishekar. Political elite in Bihar. Bombay: Vora and Co, 1972.

Joshi, Hemant and Sanjay Kumar (eds.). Asserting voices: changing cultural identity and livelihood of the Musahars in the Gangetic plains. Delhi: Dushkal Publication, 2002.

Kothari, Rajni. Caste in Indian politics. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 1970.

Kumar, Ashwani. Community warriors: state, peasants and caste armies in Bihar. London/Delhi: Anthem Press, 2008.

Kunnath, George J. Rebels from the mud houses: dalits and the making of the maoist revolution in Bihar. New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2012.

Lall, Sunita and Shaibal Gupta (eds.). Resurrection of the state: a saga of Bihar – essays in memory of Papiya Ghosh. Delhi: Manak Publications, 2013.

Lohia, Rammanohar. Saat krantiyan. Hyderabad: Samata Vidyalaya Nyas, 1966.

Lohia, Rammanohar. The caste system. Hyderabad: Samata Vidyalaya Nyas, 1964.

Louis, Prakash. People power: the naxalite movement in central Bihar. New Delhi: Wordsmiths, 2002.

Mahmud, Syed. Hindu-Muslim cultural accord. Bombay: Vora and Co, 1949.

Narayan, Jayaprakash. Towards total revolution. Mumbai: Popular Prakashan, 1978.

Nedumpara, Jose J. Political economy and class contradictions. New Delhi: Anmol, 2004.

Prasad, B.N. Radicalism and violence in agrarian structure: the maoist movement in Bihar. New Delhi: Manak Publications, 2002.

Prasad, K.N. The Bihar economy: through plans. New Delhi: Northern Book Centre, 1997.

Ray, Rabindra. The naxalites and their ideology. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Renu, Phanishwar Nath. Maila aanchal (Renu Rachanavali, vol. 2). Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, 1995.

Sajjad, Mohammad. Muslim politics in Bihar: changing contours. New Delhi: Routledge, 2014.

Sajjad, Mohammad. Contesting colonialism and separatism: Muslims of Muzaffarpur since 1857. New Delhi: Primus, 2014.

Sarkar, Jadunath. Bihar and Orissa during the fall of the Mughal empire. Patna: Patna University, 1932.

Sharma, A.N. and S. Gupta (eds.). Bihar: stagnation or growth. Delhi: Spectrum Publishing House. 1997.

Sharma, K.K. Agrarian movements and Congress politics in Bihar. Delhi: Anamika Prakashan, 1991.

Singh, N.K. and Nicholas Stern (eds.). The new Bihar: rekindling governance and development. Noida: Harper Collins India, 2013.

Singh, Narendra Kumar. Bihar mein niji senaon ka udbhav aur vikas. New Delhi: Vani Prakashan, 2005.

Sinha, Arun. Nitish Kumar and the rise of Bihar. New Delhi: Penguin India, 2011.

Sinha, Arun. Against the few: struggles of India’s rural poor. London: Zed Books, 1991.

Shrikant. Bihar: raj aur samaj. New Delhi: Vani Prakashan, 2011.

Shrikant. Bihar main chunav: jaati, hinsa aur booth loot. New Delhi: Vani Prakashan, 2005.

Shrikant. Bihar: chitthiyon ki rajneeti. New Delhi: Vani Prakashan, n.d.

Thakur, Anantalal. Comprehensive history of Bihar. Patna: Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research, 2012.

Thakur, Sankarshan. Single man: the life and times of Nitish Kumar of Bihar. Noida: Harper Collins India, 2014.

Thakur, Sankarshan. Subaltern saheb: Bihar and the making of Laloo Yadav. New Delhi: Picador, 2006.

Thakur, Sankarshan. The making of Laloo Yadav: the unmaking of Bihar. New Delhi: Harper Collins Publishers, 2000.

 

ARTICLES

Barik, Radhakanta. Congress politics and peasant unrest in Bihar, 1946-47, in Amit Kumar Gupta (ed.), Myth and reality: the struggle for freedom in India, 1945-47. New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1987.

Bandyopadhyay, D. Lost opportunity in Bihar. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 44(47): 2009: 12-14.

Bhatia, Bela. The naxalite movement in central Bihar. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 40(15): 2005: 1536-1549.

Bharti, Indu. Bhagalpur riots and Bihar government. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 24(48): 1989: 2443-44.

Bhattacharya, S. Eastern India, in Dharma Kumar and Tapan Raychaudhuri (eds.), The Cambridge economic history of India (vol. 2). Delhi: Orient Longman. 1982.

Blair, Harry. Structural change, the agricultural sector and politics in Bihar, in John Wood (ed.), State politics in contemporary India: continuity or crisis? Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1984.

Blair, Harry. Rising kulaks and backward classes in Bihar: social change in the late 1970s. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’: 1980: 64-74.

Blair, Harry. Minority electoral politics in a north Indian state. ‘American Political Science Review’, 67(4): 1973: 275-87.

Das Gupta, Chirashree. Unravelling Bihar’s ‘growth miracle’. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 45(52): 2010: 50-62.

Das, Arvind N. Para-democracy in Bihar. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’: 1998: 2959-2960.

Engineer, Asghar Ali. Sitamarhi on fire. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 27 (46): 1992: 2462-2464.

Ghosh, Papiya. Contemporary patriarchies: recon-figurations in Bihar, in Shakti Kak and Biswamoy Pati (eds.), Exploring gender equations: colonial and post-colonial India. New Delhi: Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 2005.

Ghosh, Papiya. The making of the Congress Muslim stereotype: Bihar, 1937-39. ‘Indian Economic and Social History Review’ 28(4): 1991: 417-434.

Ghosh, Papiya. Community questions and Bihar politics 1917–23. ‘Indian Historical Review’ 16(1-2): 1989: 195-210.

Ghosh, Prabhat and Shaibal Gupta. Economic growth and human development in Bihar in Shovan Ray (ed.), Backwaters of development: six deprived states of India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Jaoul, Nicolas. Naxalism in Bihar: from bullet to ballot, in Laurent Gayer and Christophe Jaffrelot (eds.), Armed militants of south Asia: fundamentalists, maoists and separatists. New Delhi: Foundation Books, 2009.

Jha, Shree Nagesh. Caste in Bihar politics. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 5(7): 1970: 341-344.

Kala, M., R.N. Maharaj and K. Mukherjee. Peasant unrest in Bhojpur: a survey, in A. R. Desai (ed.), Agrarian struggles in India after independence. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Kesavan, Mukul. Congress and the Muslims of U.P. and Bihar, 1937-39. Occasional paper on history and society, no. 27, 2nd series. Centre for Contemporary Studies, NMML, New Delhi, June 1990.

Kumar, Sanjay, Mohammad Sanjeer Alam and Dhananjai Joshi. Caste dynamic and political pro-cess in Bihar. ‘Journal of Indian School of Political Economy’ 20: 2008: 1-100.

Kumar, Sanjay and Rakesh Ranjan. Bihar: development matters. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 44(39): 2009: 141-144.

Kumar, Sanjay and Rakesh Ranjan. New phase in backward caste politics in Bihar: Janata Dal on the decline. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 34(34-35): 1999: 2472-2480.

McDonald, G. Unity on trial: Congress in Bihar 1929-39, in D.A. Low (ed.), Congress and the raj: facets of the Indian struggle 1917-47. Melbourne: Arnold-Heinemann, 1977.

Prasad, P.H. Agrarian violence in Bihar. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 22(22): 1987: 847-852.

Prasad, P.H. Caste and class in Bihar. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 14(7-8): 1979: 481-484.

Sharma, A.N. Agrarian relations and socio-economic change in Bihar. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 40(10): 2005: 960-972.

Sharma, A.N. Political economy of poverty in Bihar. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 30(41-42): 1995: 2587-2602.

Sinha, A. Social mobilisation in Bihar: bureaucratic feudalism and distributive justice. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 31(51): 1996: 3287-3289.

 

REPORTS AND ONLINE RESOURCES

Institute for Human Development. Aiming at inclusive development in Bihar: social and eco- nomic change in rural Bihar and the emerging policy framework. UNDP sponsored study. New Delhi.

Indicus Analytics. Bihar development report, 2010.

Government of Bihar. Report of the steering group of agricultural development in Bihar. Department of Agriculture, 2010.

People’s Union for Democratic Rights. A time to kill: a report of massacres in Jehanabad, 1999.

People’s Union for Democratic Rights. Agrarian conflict in Bihar and the Ranvir Sena, 1997.

People’s Union for Democratic Rights. Bitter harvest: the root of massacres in central Bihar, 1992.

Writings of Vinod Mishra, former general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist-Liberation). Available online at: https://www.marxists. org/reference/archive/mishra/

 

SEMINAR ISSUES

The state of Bihar. ‘Seminar’ 450, February 1997.

The paradox that is Bihar. ‘Seminar’ 580, December 2007.