Bihar Province Bihar Province Bihar Province was a province of British India, created in 1936 by the partition of the Bihar and Orissa Province. In 1756 Bihar was part of Bengal. On 14 October 1803 Orissa was occupied by the British Raj. On 1 April 1912 both Bihar and Orissa were separated from Bengal as Bihar and Orissa Province. On 1 April 1936 Bihar and Orissa became separate provinces. The Government of India Act provided for the election of a provincial legislative assembly and a responsible government. Elections were held in 1937, and the Indian National Congress took a majority of the
Migrated provinces, commanderies and counties Migrated provinces, commanderies and counties The migrated provinces, commanderies and counties () were consequence of a special administrative regionalization called qiao zhi () during the Six dynasties era of China. The Shahumyan Province is a modern analogue of their alternative local government, in their infancy. With adoption of tu duan and merger, these nominal subdivisions transitioned to the actual administrative divisions. Since the uprising of the five barbarians, a large number of northern refugees migrated south. These migrants who called "qiao ren (, literally the migrated people)" were the base of the migrated provinces, commanderies, and counties. Bearing northern place