Bihar Diwas 2011, Celebrating separate statehood status to Bihar

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Bihar Diwas is the first time ever celebration and also marking the 98th anniversary of separate statehood status to Bihar. The functions will be held at over 25,000 centres across the state. Bihar received a separate statehood status on March 22, 1912.

The tenth and the last Guru of Sikhism, Guru Gobind Singh was born in Patna. After the Battle of Buxar (1764), the British East India Company obtained the diwani rights (rights to administer, and collect revenue or tax) for Bihar, Bengal and Orissa. From this point, Bihar remained a part the Bengal Presidency of the British Raj until 1912, when the province of Bihar and Orissa was carved out as a separate province. Bihar now celebrates its birthday as Bihar Diwas on 22 March from 2010. In 1935, certain portions of Bihar were reorganised into the separate province of Orissa.