Today, We cover BIHAR in our All-in-One Series
• GI Tag
• PVTGs
• Dance forms
• National Parks
• Historical Caves eg: Barabar
• Other key Facts in a single thread
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1. GI Tags 🗒️
• Silao Khaja
• Sujini Embroidery
• Sikki Grass Products
• Madhubani Paintings
Madhubani Paintings is important for #Prelims. Know more about it 🖌️
- Paintings are flat with no shading & no empty space
- Initially created by women on their dwellings' walls to express feelings & ideas
- Use natural extracts like soot with cow dung (black), indigo (blue), rice powder (white) & palasha flowers (orange)
2. Dance Forms
• Jata-Jatin Dance: Depicts the life of Lord Shiva
• Bidesia Dance: Reflects the struggles and aspirations of migrant laborers
• Chakwa Dance: Mimics the movements of a bird called Chakwa (Pheasant)
• Bakho-Bakhain Dance: Dancers wear traditional attire and carry farming tools
Use this in your #Essay /Cultural Significance Examples
3. PVTGs & Few pointers
- Birhor Tribe
- Paharia Tribe
- Hill Kharia Tribe
- Bhuiya Tribe: practice shifting cultivation
- Asur Tribe: Primarily hunter-gatherers and farmers
4. Important Caves 🛕
• Sudama Cave: Has a vaulted chamber with sound-enhancing walls and a 'Mandapa.'
• Barabar caves: India's oldest surviving rock-cut caves, dating back to the Mauryan Empire
• Vishwamitra Cave: Known as Viswakarma Cave, features two rectangular rooms for Ajivikas but lacks post-Ashoka inscriptions.
• Karan Chaupar Cave: A single rectangular room with 3rd Century BCE inscriptions on Buddhist rainy season practices, reserved for Ajivika monks
5. National Park. Only 1, hence know more about it
Valmiki National Park🐅
• Dominated by the 'Tharu' scheduled tribe
• Foothill ranges of Siwaliks on Indo-Nepal border
• Bounded by River Gandak (Narayani in Nepal) to the west
6. Wildlife Sanctuary & Facts Around It
- Udaipur Wildlife Sanctuary: Oxbow lake in the Gandaki River floodplain
- Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Wildlife Sanctuary: IUCN Status- Endangered
Gautam Budha Wildlife Sanctuary, Bhimbandh Wildlife Sanctuary
7. Ramsar Sites
Kanwar Jheel Wildlife Sanctuary :
• Asia's largest freshwater oxbow lake
• Avifauna: White-backed vulture(Cr) & Long-billed (Indian) vulture(Cr)
Cover geography too. This is oxbow lake formation 😉

Will cover more in the coming days. Stay tuned
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