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Saturday, July 14, 2007

Where Bihar leads India

Where 'backward' Bihar leads India
By Amarnath Tewary
BBC News, Patna

For many years, Bihar in northern India has earned notoriety for being one of the poorest and most lawless states in the country.

Nobel-prize winning author VS Naipaul once described it as the place where "civilisation ends".

But all is not lost, perhaps. We discover five areas where Bihar might consider itself to be ahead of other Indian states...............

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