Administration in Bihar Bihar are like sub-districts. There are 101 subdivisions in Bihar. The Indian state of Bihar is divided into 534 administrative subdivisions called blocks. The Patna High Court () is the High Court of the state of Bihar. It was established on February 3, 1916, and later affiliated under the "Government of India Act, 1915". The court is headquartered in Patna, the administrative capital of the state. A proclamation was made by the Governor-General of India on 22 March 1912. The foundation-stone of the High Court Building was laid on 1 December 1913 by His Excellency the late Viceroy and Governor-General
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