Synopsis This is a study very much unlike the ones we re accustomed to, yet informative and most authoritative. Bihar has been shown here as it actually is, and not as it is usually painted by the vested interest. Based on facts-facts not coming from the Bihar government records but from the Central government and other sources which are by no means kindly disposed towards the ‘rulers’ in Bihar the picture of the much maligned state that emerges here is very much in colours true to objectivity.