Media in Bihar of Bihar. Magahi Parishad, established in Patna in 1952, pioneered Magadhi journalism in Bihar. It started the monthly journal, "Magadhi", which was later renamed "Bihan". Bihar TV India established in samastipur 2018 by Sumit Sourav Dainik Jagran, Navbharat Times, Aaj, Son Varsha Vani from aurangabad district of bihar, Hindustan Dainik and Prabhat Khabar are some of the popular Hindi news papers and Taasir, are some of the popular Urdu daily news papers of Bihar. Besides its parent State, the Government of Bihar Taasir is the only popular Urdu daily of Bihar which is recognized and approved by other State Governments
History of Bihar Hindi weekly Hunkar from Bihar in 1940. Hunkar later became the mouthpiece of the peasant movement and the agrarian movement in Bihar and was instrumental in spreading the movement. The peasant movement later spread to other parts of the country and helped in digging out the British roots in the Indian society by overthrowing the zamindari system. Bihar's contribution in the independence movement has been immense with famous leaders like Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, Shaheed Baikuntha Shukla, "Bihar Bibhuti" Anugrah Narayan Sinha, Mulana Mazharul Haque, "Loknayak" Jayaprakash Narayan, Satyendra Narayan Sinha (Singh), Basawon Singh (Sinha), Yogendra Shukla, Sheel Bhadra Yajee, Pandit