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Biharis
The Biharis () is a demonym given to an Indo-Aryan ethnic group who live in the Indian state of Bihar and Jharkhand. Bihar is home to many different ethnic groups. Biharis speak languages such as Magahi, Bajjika Maithili, Bhojpuri, and other local dialects as well as Hindi-Urdu.
Besides the state of Bihar, Biharis can be found throughout Purvanchal, North India, West Bengal, Assam, Maharashtra and in the neighbouring countries of Pakistan and Bangladesh. A large number of Biharis travelled to various parts of the world in the 19th century to serve as indentured labour on sugarcane and rubber plantations in Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Fiji, Mauritius and Natal, South Africa. During the partition of India in 1947, many Muslim Biharis migrated to East Bengal (later East Pakistan and subsequently Bangladesh). Bihari people are also well represented in Pakistan's (formerly West Pakistan) Muhajir people as a result of the partition of India, as well as the recent repatriation of some Bihari refugees from Bangladesh to Pakistan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Assessment for Biharis in Bangladesh )〕
==Pre-history==
Mythological stories claim that Bihar was the place where Manu resided after the great flood, with the help of Matsya.〔P. 1543 ''Encyclopaedia of Hinduism'' By Nagendra Kumar Singh〕 A king of the Yadus nicknamed "Mahabali" ruled over this last in ancient times. He was impotent. His guru was Dirghatamas. Mahabali had many wives and so Maharishi Dirghatamas with the permission of his king impregnated Mahabali's chief queen Sudeshna.〔Chakravarti, P. 99 ''The Concept of Rudra-Śiva Through the Ages''〕 Queen Sudeshna bore five children or "Kshetrajas" (''rulers of lands''), one of them was King Anga, which is modern-day Bihar. From Anga sprang Anapana.〔''Political History of Pre-Buddhist India'' By Asim Kumar Chatterjee〕
According to the historian Asim Maitra, the history of Magadha from the earliest times to the dawn of the Buddhist era is not well known. The Vedas display open hostility and disgust towards Magadha because it was a great stronghold of the non-Aryans and refused to be absorbed in the stereotyped Brahmanical pattern.〔 Before the discovery of the ruins of Mohenjo Daro and Harappa, the cyclopean walls on the hills of Rajgir were an ancient archaeological remains in India.〔Maitra Asim, ''Magahi culture'', Cosmo Publication, 1983, pp. 45〕
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